Have you ever read a book about time travel and just thought it was a good story because it has a pretty basic plot? Let me tell you something about this book. It eats your brain out. You constantly find yourself stopping to think about details of what would happen to the "future you" if this happened to you because he does so much to possibly change his current life. Yet of course, that's a good thing in this case. This book is about a sixteen-year-old kid named J.J. who is an assistant to Professor Poplov who helps him with his projects. While the professor is gone J.J. guesses the code to the security panel on the secret closet where professor Poplov keeps all of his secret projects. He discovers in the closet a time machine. Testing it out he accidentally goes back four years. He stumbles into his old self and is followed to the labs. He from then on calls this him Jacko. Jacko follows him forward to present time where they see strange people on the roof. They rush back six years to warn the professor. While there they run into Mutt. Mutt is J.J. but six years younger. After solving the problem the two older J.J.s go home.
All of the problems in this story came one after another and soon led to the end. I liked the style of writing most of all. The way the author wrote the story is the same way I write. I also liked how it made me think. It kind of confused me sometimes. The last of the story is written from Mutt's point of view. Mutt then begins to rewrite his future in a whole different way. This book really puts readers right in the story.

I remember reading this when I was a kid. I always thought it was a pretty neat book. Time travel is always a cool thing to read about, and this one is pretty good too. One of the best things I remember is writing a letter to the author. She wrote me a full-length letter back! For an 11-year-old kid, that's quite a thrill. I recommend this book for any children's book library.

I read this book under the title "The Mysterious Shrinking House" also. It remains one of my favorite stories of all time! I must have been about 11 when I read it the first time, and I read it over and over. I am buying it now (after searching for it forever!) because I have a 12 year old daughter and I've shared with her how much I love this story. I am going to give her the hardback for Christmas and I hope that it will mean as much to her as it did to me. It's something that I am really excited to have in common with my daughter!

I read this under the title The Mysterious Shrinking House. I was probably around six or seven the first time I read it and I still love this book. Mindy finds an old dollhouse and falls in love with it. It sure looks a lot like Mrs. Bright's old family home which strangely vanished one day way back in 1915. Soon Mindy and lively old Mrs. Bright find themselves dollhouse-sized and that's just the start. A lot of fun from Horse the dog who's hot on his missing owner's trail to the inhabitants of Lilliput U.S.A. A clever and engaging story with a few chuckles along the way.

One of the best children's adventures written, period. Ten year-old Tommy Bassumtyte is sent across the Atlantic to live with his older British cousin, an old gentry family living in an Elizabethan manor house. Tommy is in possession of an old family rhyme which he thinks may lead to hidden treasure, a treasure his cousin doubts exists. Nevertheless, the undeniable existence of a secret room in the house, coupled with memories of a shadowy incident in the house's distant past, puts Tommy on the seach. But Tommy quickly realizes that the treasure hunt has become a desperate race against time, as the family becomes threatened with loss of the old house due to financial pressure. His older cousin also hopes against hope for treasure, to save the house, but also to solve a gigantic historical mystery. A rather ordinary country home may reveal the secrets of a 16th century conspiracy that altered history. And the house has a ghost......... Curry's book excels on every level. Delightful, caring characters, the romance of buried treasure and secret rooms, the tension of a family's crisis, the sophisticated treatment of actual historical events, and an utterly satisfying conclusion will have bright, thoughtful children ages 9-12 riveted

Jane Louise Curry's Egyptian Box tells of a mysterious Egyptian box inherited by a young girl - and the supernatural figure it releases. At first the ancient Egyptian worker seems subservient to her mistress' commands, but soon ulterior motives emerge and Tee finds herself fighting for her identity in this gripping supernatural thriller.

I first read this book when I was 12 years old and I've read it innumerable times since. It's impossible to put down and more gripping than most mysteries written for adults. Mrs. Byrd and her three children, Oriole, Peregrine, and Mab have just received a mystifiying telegram from the now-missing Professor Byrd. He's disappeared in a remote valley high in the Alps. In his telegram he mentions "Tce ghosts." Does he mean Ice ghosts or The ghosts? Mrs. Byrd hurriedly packs her family onto an airplane, and they're off to investigate the mysterious disappearance and the meaning of the telegram. With the help of a local boy, a bumbling folklorist, and an instructor from the nearby climbers' school, the Byrds must solve both mysteries if they ever want to see their father again.

Roger Nicholas is thirteen and a bit too tightly wrapped, too introverted. His father Tony is an actor with the National Theatre in London, England, and his step-mother is an American actress there, and with her own daughter aged nine. Tony inherits what appears to be an ugly pink stuccoed monstrosity of a house close to the Thames in the London suburb of Isleworth. But belying its early 19th Century appearance is the presence of a distinctly Elizabethan ghost. In the process of uncovering the mystery they uncover the real house and its earlier origins and a bit of family history into the bargain. The characters are very well drawn, and Roger in particular is a very complex young lad who grows and matures through the course of the story.

I was and adult when I discovered this book at the time of its first printing, and was instantly captivated by the story and by its telling, and by the talent of the author. I have re-read this book a dozen times in the last 25 years and still enjoy it immensely. I cannot reccommend it highly enough.

This story is rich in historical detail, and one of the few to focus on what life was like for indentured servants in colonial America. It also gives a fascinating portrait of life in Highland Scotland just after the rebellion of 1745. I found the happy ending a bit contrived, but the author manages to lead the reader from the Highlands, through indenture, to Native American capture, and back, while commenting on the situation and culture of African slaves as well, all the while keeping up interest in a determined and lively heroine. A good read!

This book is amazing. It tells abouat hat life was like in the 1700's from a person's point of veiw from another country. It shows that life back then was not very easy.

This is a great book. The writing's good, the story's good, the charachters are good....and that makes the overall reading experience great! I don't know how else to describe it except as great! I really think that you should read it, and if you do, I think there is a 99.9% chance that you will like "A Stolen Life."

Dark Shade is about a girl named Maggie Gilmour and how she fells into a hole that goes back in time when there was Indian tribes.It was summer when this all happen.Maggie was 16, in school she takes American literature program that will prepare her to study veterinary medicine, like her dad. In class with her is Kip, a childhood companion,who is now a silent presence, ever since a fire that left him scarred physically and emotionally. She follows Kip into the forest near their western Pennsylvania home.Kip fell into a hole Maggie thought Kip lost her. Maggie falls into the same hole Kip falls in and she notices that every thing is differant from the place she was before she fell into the hole.It is a dark forest and there is lots of trees. Maggie founds out she has falling into time. She sees indians tribes and Kip. he does not want to leave the tribe, but Maggie does want to leave and go back home.Maggie finds she must save a Scots soldier of the War and find a way to free her friend Kip from the Lenape Indians, so they cound go home. At first Kip wants to stay, but every thing started getting rough, like war between the Indians and the French. They get away and they never forget that day they fall in time.

The combination of its story about time travel to the French and Indian War and the Indian adoption of a white teen is what led me to read "Dark Shade." Overall, I was a little disappointed in the book, mainly because I didn't like how tentative the main character, Maggie, was about her time travelling adventures. I think it would have been a more intriguing story if Maggie had been allowed to more fully explore the 18th century world she stumbled in upon. Instead she only makes hestitant steps into it. Maggie's tentative reaction is probably a realistic one, but, since time travel stories are pure fantasy anyway, her reaction is not a particularly interesting one. Also I thought the sudden appearance of romantic feelings between two characters, who barely interact with each other throughout the book, came across as tacked on and contrived.

However, "Dark Shade" does have one great strength- the author's wonderfully detailed description of the primeval forest that once stretched across Pennsylvannia. Thanks to Ms. Curry's description, the reader can almost see, smell, and feel that dark, ancient, and never-ending forest. Also the author reminds the reader that people in the 18th century weren't so big on bathing so that their aroma must have been rather pungent.

The Great Flood Mystery

This book is about a boy named Gordy, his family, Old Mr. Wegener and his friends. In this pretty exciting book. What they are trying to find out in this book is if there really was a great flood that made a long lost treasure in Jamestown in 1889. So throughout this book they are putting clues together and finding out what might have happened to find out if there really was a long lost treasure. So Gordy his friends, family and Old Mr. Wegener go place to place trying to find out if there was really this long lost treasure. So if you want to find out if they find a long lost treasure or all what happened then read the rest of this great mystery because it will have you reading on and on.

Even though I talked so highly of this book, I really did not like it very much because it was kind of boring at some parts but then at others it was not so bad. That's why I would only give this book a 2 out of 5 stars. But this is also because I really don't like mystery books very much. So if you are into mystery books then I say go for reading this mystery book The Great Flood Mystery by Jane Louise Curry.

The Great Flood Mystery

The Great Flood Mystery was about Gordy and his family when they went to their Aunt Willi's house over the summer because a friend of theirs wants to rent their house for $600 a month and they really need the money. So the Hartz family went to Aunt Willi's for the summer and Gordy brought along his best friend Zizzy. As they wonder around the house looking for secret rooms all they find is a bathroom. Later in the night around midnight Gordy leaves his room because he thinks the secret room must be above the attic. he finally found it. But someone is prowling outside. So gordy hid up in the room but found a map of his neighborhood in 1890. But earlier his aunt told him about a great flood that happened a long time ago and in that flood a bunch a gold was swept away. It just vanished. But Gordy, Zizzy, and Roy will set out to find it and to catch or avoid the burglar. I thought that this book was a good book but they explained the details a little too much and it was kind of confusing. I would give it three stars out of 5. * * *