Teen Time Travel

After her life is upended by divorce and a cross-country move, 16-year-old Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school - not only is she a transplant, but she’s also biracial in a population of mostly White students. One day while visiting her only friend at her part-time library job, Saskia encounters a vial of liquid mercury, then touches an old daguerreotype - the precursor of the modern-day photograph - and makes a startling discovery. She is somehow able to visit the man in the portrait: Robert Cornelius, a brilliant young inventor from the 19th century.

Bay Lilly knows what happens when people die...but, that doesn't mean she's okay with her little brother Ash's looming form-death. And now, after eighteen years in her human form, Bay is expected to take her spiritual test. Except she's far from ready. She's horribly unspiritual and can hardly control her thoughts and emotions, especially when it comes to her brother. When Ash's death goes very wrong, Bay finds herself facing a reality where hes stuck forever in the in-between.

High school has just ended and Eddie is at a loss for what's next. He had a falling out with his best friend, and he never really related to the rest of his peers in the sleepy Colorado suburb he calls home. The future holds no promise for him currently, so he finds solace in his imagination. Until his eccentric great aunt Cookie asks him to come to New York to take care of her in her old age. Eddie leaps at the opportunity, and when he arrives in the city his life begins to find some direction.

Temporal waves can now be detected and traced back to the time and place of their origin, even making it possible for one to travel back in time - or at least for one's consciousness to appear in a projection of one's body. Only three countries have the apparatus to make this event possible: the United States, Germany, and Japan. But now, scientists have been killed, followed immediately by the detection of a time displacement wave - the signature of a time traveler trying to change the past. There are only two days to rectify the situation, or else history settles into a new pattern.

When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends (including his betrothed, Kat) find themselves stranded in modern-day LA via a magical portal and an evil traitor named Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum - soon. Then they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants to get out of the system and on with her life. As she and Cedric bond, they'll discover that she's more connected to his world than they ever could've imagined...and that finding home is no easy task.

Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from crushing his final exams to military school to a career in the Air Force. But his family's tragic past and its complicated present have caught up to him, and his marks are slipping, jeopardizing all of his plans. When Boy befriends Mara, a homeless man who can seemingly stop and restart time at will, he has to weigh his family's needs and his own conscience against the potential contained within Mara's mysterious and powerful gift.

In The Time-Travelling Trio: Adventure Stories Across History book 2, listeners will embark on thrilling expeditions to a variety of historical periods and locales. From the majestic pyramids of ancient Egypt to the rugged terrain of the American Wild West, the trio will discover the unknown and uncover the hidden.

Eight-grader Penny Preston thought she knew how to handle the Bodach, the spirits from the fifth dimension. But suddenly something is attacking the structure of the multiverse. Left unchecked, the attack will tear the fabric separating the dimensions and destroy the universe in a cataclysmic cosmic crunch. As the stress on the fabric grows, higher-dimensional energy escapes into Piper Falls, NY, reenergizing the Bodach. Emboldened, they use their regained powers to wreak havoc on the small town. The extra energy draws several new higher-dimensional entities to Piper Falls.

I’m falling. I’ve done that a lot this year. I’ve fallen for lies. Fallen in love. Now I’m falling through the water in the lake like I’ve done so often before, but this time is different. This time is going to be my last time. For everything. My last breath is rising in a rush of bubbles that hurry to the surface like champagne escaping a bottle. And my last thought...my last thought is of him. Of Kyle. I’ll miss him. I hope he’ll miss me. It’s a strange hope to have for the guy who just murdered me.

It's 1986 and 16-year-old Zoe Brenner's world revolves around Depeche Mode, Judd Nelson, exercise-obsessed parents, and her best friend Jonah. Then one day, in a freak Fun-Dip choking accident, Zoe falls unconscious, and awakes in the year 2016. So much has changed, and Zoe needs Jonah to help her make sense of it all. But in this life, Zoe is the most popular girl in school, and she soon realizes this Zoe doesn't associate with nerds like Jonah.

Anyone who has hiked through time knows the town of Pocket. It’s the place travelers first reach after they stumble away from their hometime, passing through on their way to any other when. To Calisto, Pocket is home. They love their grandmother’s shop, which is filled with clothes from every era that are used to make costumes for time travelers. Calisto has no intention of traveling—it’s too dangerous. For Fawkes, traveling is life. He put on time boots when he was young and has been stumbling through eras ever since. When he floats into Pocket, Calisto meets him for the first time.

As Fritz Russell’s long summer exploring the past with the portal comes to a close, the president recruits him for a crucial mission: stop a coup d’etat that threatens to control the outcome of a vital election. But with moles inside the government passing crucial information about the portal, Fritz must be cautious about how it’s used and who he can trust.

When 16-year-old Alexander Briggs is recruited into a secret society of similarly gifted teens, he is asked to give up everything in the process. Everything. In exchange, they promise to teach him how to control his powers and give purpose to them in the process. They tell him his potential is boundless. But, should such power exist without bound? Can choices be changed? Fates avoided? Futures made new? Or is there nothing that can be done to fight against and stop the darkness mobilizing within the Sumus Exitium?

The Xortaags are back with a vengeance. Not being the forgive-and-forget types, they’ve conquered the Akakie homeworld, and now they set their sight upon Earth. Having reverse-engineered the advanced technology they scavenged on Kanoor, they now hold the key to rule the universe forever. It now befalls to Jim and his friends to save not only humanity, but every sentient species in the galaxy.

Jim, a wisecracking, OCD-suffering fighter pilot, is about to propose to his girlfriend when his friend Kurt surprises them by showing up at his house, wounded and covered in blood. This is just the beginning of Jim's woes, because soon after, his life is thrown into a galactic conflict that threatens the very existence of the human race. Can our heroes save humanity from the wrath of a galaxy-conquering alien fleet? The Crimson Deathbringer seamlessly blends breathtaking action sequences with mischievous humor.

How can a high school girl deal with a megalomaniac? What would you do if Richard III manipulated your thoughts and took you places you didn’t want to go? Would that be any easier to take if you had a chance to meet Romeo and Juliet and Mercutio? Beth has magical powers, but will she learn how to use them in time? The immortal wizard Merlin transports high school actor Beth Owens to Shakespeare's London and the world of Shakespeare's characters in search of a missing play about King Arthur.

Serenity Winters is taking the summer off. After her last year included crushing on the wrong guy (again), having her best friend move all the way across the country, and an unexpected loss she's still not prepared to deal with, she deserves it. And a visit to see Maia in California seems the perfect getaway. Beaches, bonfires, and boys? Yes please!

Since her arrival in northern Spain, vivid visions have haunted Andrea. In her visions, she sees Julian, the man she loves, being killed by sword. Julian broke up with Andrea out of jealousy and pride, but when she's buried under a slide, he comes searching for her. Soon after they are reunited under the mountain, a portal opens and sends them back in time, to the year AD 718, seven years after the last Spanish king was defeated by the Arab invaders.

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel.

Roya desperately wishes she was above ground on a sunny patio watching the lake lap up on the shore. Instead, she finds herself trapped with the Lucidites. Her brother is mysteriously wasting away, and, at every turn, she finds a new betrayal. Just when she thinks she's finally escaping the Institute, a new danger unveils itself. A secret society of Dream Travelers has declared war on the Lucidites by abducting a head official. It's up to Roya to figure out who's behind it and how to save everyone she cares about most.