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Time Travel for Middle Graders

Time travel is a great way to explore "What ifs", or to gain empathy for the way certain people or a time period lived and the decisions they made.

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  • When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever. From bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly, this novel explores themes of family, friendship, trust, and forgiveness.
    BookNew York : Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — J KELLY
  • Musical prodigy Rosie stops playing the violin, upsetting her ambitious mother but making room in her life for new experiences, including a glitch in space-time that lets her meet her mom as a twelve-year-old.
    BookMinneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, [2024] — J ISLER
  • Before she knows what's hit her, McKinley somehow finds herself in the real 1993--and it's not all kitschy parachute pants and Jurassic Park. All McKinley wants is to return to the present, but before she can, she's going to have to make a…
    BookNew York : Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. — J GRAFF
  • Viv and her friends use one of Area 51's finicky time machines to bring back her long-lost father, but when their mission takes a dangerous turn, her dad's life and their own histories are put in jeopardy.
    BookNew York : Penguin Workshop, 2023. — J MURRAY
  • Ten-year-old Kara follows mysterious tracks in the snow that lead her across time and space from modern-day Sweden to 1942 Germany where two siblings are hiding from the Nazis.
    BookNew York : Union Square Kids, [2023] — J FOX
  • Twelve-year-old Evie gets trapped 65 million years in the past and must learn to survive with only her wits...and the pterosaur she befriends.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2023. — J MUKANIK
  • Seventh grader Noah tries to avoid the worst day ever and help his future self win his eighth grade class election using time travel.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — J BORBA
  • After sixty years of trying to stop Paradox and set the universe right again, Finn time-travels to get help from his nine-year-old self.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — J BUCKLEY
  • Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they'll have to use both Morse code and the…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — J CLARK