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  • Published: 15 February 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552555920
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

Timesnatch




A gripping thriller about time travel - from a Carnegie Medal-winning author.

Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?

Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.

It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...

WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY

  • Published: 15 February 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552555920
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Robert Swindells

ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. He went on to become the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list, and in 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD.

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Praise for Timesnatch

Spellbinding plot . . . an unstoppable pace . . . a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience

TES

A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought

Books for Keeps

Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph

The Sunday Times

Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page

Sunday Telegraph