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Welcome to the TIME TRAPPED BLOG TOUR!!! Below you'll find an awesome book trailer, an excerpt from the book AND a chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Have fun!
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TIME TRAPPED
Richard Ungar
Penguin Young Readers
320 pp.
Ages 8 - 12
The high-octane sequel to Time Snatchers.
Caleb thought he'd escaped Uncle's clutches and could have a normal life in 1968, but no such luck. After being forcibly returned to Timeless Treasures and his old job of stealing valuable objects from the past, he learns that things have gotten even more sinister. Training the new kidnapped recruits doesn't seem very important to Frank, Uncle's evil lackey, even though a few of these kids have amazing thieving skills and genius for new technology. But then Caleb figures out it's because Frank doesn't plan on keeping them around very long - or keeping them alive.
Stakes are high for all of the time snatchers. If only Caleb can convince the new ones to stop having fun with the technology and use it to save their own lives.
Praise for Time Trapped
"Ungar’s follow-up to Time Snatchers (2012) offers more exceptionally good world building and character development—along with heaps of suspense..." - Booklist Online
"In the exciting follow-up to Time Snatchers (Putnam, 2012), Caleb has been pulled back into Uncle’s band of time-travelling thieves—snatchers, as they call themselves. ...Readers of the first volume will certainly be interested in the continuing saga. Captivating characters, including a computer with human DNA convinced she is not a computer, and technological prodigies enhance the plot." - VOYA Magazine
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EXCERPT - TIME TRAPPED
“Wait!
What’s your name?” I call after her.
She’s
going to disappear into the crowd. The beautiful girl with no name. And I’ll be
left wondering . . . Or worse, she’ll say her name and I won’t hear it. Because
the noise level in the hall is increasing and a hundred inane conversations are
going on around me and despite strict orders from my brain, my ears are picking
up random words like belch and freight train, and pumpkin, and I’m afraid that
when she finally says her name, I’m going to hear mustard instead and then what
will I do—
“It’s
Abbie!” she calls out.
Abbie.
I’ve got it. Abbie. Abbie. Abbie. Three times should do it. Just in case, I
whip open my memory book to jot it down. A scrap of paper flutters out.
I
pick it up and gaze at the big loopy letters. She gave me a note! I can’t
believe it. I unfold the paper.
Meet
me in the park at 4:00 P.M. We need to talk in private.
We
do? A beautiful girl needs to talk to me. And not only does she want to talk to
me, but in private too. My dreams are coming true. This is incredible. It can
take years to get a note like this from a girl, and I’ve done it in just over
thirty minutes. A school record. Heck, maybe even a state record. My picture is
going to be in Sports Illustrated. Right next to the girl who shot three holes
in one during her sophomore year.
I
look up to see if I can spot her. But Abbie is gone.
I must get my copy of the first in series read! On my to read for this week. Thanks for this and really looking forward to reading your Middle Shelf when I get to work today. happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI've seen the first book in passing before, but I never paused to read what it really was… Now that I know, I realized I should've paid more attention! What an exciting premise! ^^ And thanks for the giveaway!
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