![]() ![]() Fortunately, she finds a friendly library (which has relevance to the plot). And her father, and the whole world of WW II England. She finds herself in our time, in the Midwest, in her pajamas in the middle of nowhere, with no way to get home again. Time travel could have military uses, and so 10-year-old Lottie and her dearest friend Kitty are taken hostage the kidnappers think her dad knows more than he's letting on, and are going to kill the two girls unless he spills his secretes.Īnd then a time portal appears (!) and Lottie, hardly pausing to think, jumps through to escape her captors, leaving Kitty behind. He believes that shimmering time portals randomly appear, but doesn't know how they work. ![]() ![]() In England in WW II, Lottie's scientist father spends his days trying to figure out the secrets of time travel. I have actually gotten my ducks in a row and have a book for this week's Timeslip Tuesday- Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales (Chronicle Books, Middle Grade, April 5, 2016). ![]()
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