The Infinite
Patience Agbabi
'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman
'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo
'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah
FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME!
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now.
On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time - and not everyone at the centre can be trusted.
Soon Elle's adventure becomes more than a race through time. It's a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it - before it ceases to exist . . .
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Reviews for The Infinite
PHILIP PULLMAN A fascinating, original and smart adventure tale with a rhythmic prose style that leaps off the page into scintillating life. It has a magic all of its own
BERNARDINE EVARISTO This time-travelling tale is a thrilling adventure with brilliant characters. Imaginative, unusual, exciting and funny
The Week Junior
The Infinite is so adventurous that it lit up parts of my brain I didn't know I had. Patience Agbabi has caused a wonderful supernova deep in the literary universe . . . Elle is curious, questioning and fearless. What an inspiration. The future just got so much better
BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Highly original . . . It's 2048 and kids have gone missing. It's up to Elle and a cadre of friends to unravel what's really going on across time
Observer
Exactly as brilliant as I thought it would be. An exciting, bold, witty and magical book
KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of ROOFTOPPERS Astonishing . . . I can't stop thinking about it, everyone should read it. It's rich and diverse and just brilliant
FLEUR HITCHCOCK, author of THE BOY WHO FLEW Elle is an engaging, self-aware character . . . and the environmental theme will strike a chord with young readers
Guardian
Fans of Hayley Long's Sophie Someone will love this imaginative time-travelling caper which follows 12-year-old Leaping Elle. A nail-biting adventure!
JULIA FORSTER, author of WHAT A WAY TO GO In this inventive, mind-boggling tale, Agbabi introduces us to Elle - determined, autistic, time-travelling crimefighter - whose voice will charm and astonish readers everywhere
STEVE TASANE, author of CHILD I