Imagine Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell mixed with All's Quiet on the Western front when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Patrick Scott explore time travel during WWI or the Great War.

The Russian president wants Lucky and the professor's secrets. The Arabs want them too. Vladimir Putin is determined to secure the secret recipe that will forever eliminate the need for oil for any type of transportation, ever . . . again. Putin has assigned this task to his Head of Security, Oleg Karpov. It is up to Lucky to protect the brilliant, mad scientist and his "magnetic propulsion system", but can he outwit legions of Russian agents? From the KGB headquarters in Moscow to the ghost town of Rhyolite, Lucky, utilizes his time travel ability and races to eradicate assassins, yet increase his wealth at the same time. Can he do it this time? Will Lucky be "lucky?" One never knows what lurks behind . . . the time portal.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is obsessed with a legendary red book. Its peculiar stories have come to life, and rumors claim that it has rewritten its own endings. Convinced that possessing this book will help him write his ever-popular Sherlock Holmes stories, he takes on an unlikely partner, John Patrick Scott, known to most as a concert musician and paranormal investigator. Although in his humble opinion, Scott considers himself more of an ethereal archeologist and a time traveler professor. Together they explore lost worlds and excavate realms beyond the knowledge of historians when they go back in time to find it. .... Silent Meridian reveals the alternative histories of Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Houdini, Jung and other notable liuminaries in the secret diaries of a new kind of Doctor Watson, John Patrick Scott, in an X Files for the 19th century. -- Cover, page [4]

Meet Miss Jones, the time traveling second grade teacher. Whenever she finds something “not quite right” in history, she goes back and fixes it! In these five separate adventures, Miss Jones discovers the stone for Michelangelo's David is about to be cut in half; she finds there is something wrong with the Wright Brother's plane; she finds that Harriet Tubman and her group of runaway slaves are about to be caught; she discovers the golden spike linking the east and west railroads has been stolen; and she finds that Pony Express rider Wild Bill Hickok is in danger! Can Miss Jones go back through time using her magic watch, and fix things before history is changed forever? Join Miss Jones on these fun adventures and find out a little bit about history along the way. Ages 7 to 10. Reading Level: 2.6 Educational Versions include exercises designed to meet Common Core Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Danny, Irene, Joe, and Professor Bullfinch launch themselves on an amazing journey -- through time! They land in the year 1763 and one of the first people they meet is Benjamin Franklin. The Professor plans to return soon to the future, but when he throws the switch, the time machine won't start. While he and Mr. Franklin try to repair it, Danny and his friends explore the colonial era -- and Joe is kidnapped by an angry innkeeper who mistakes them for a runaway. Can the Professor get them back to their own time before more disasters happen? Danny Dunn, Time Traveler is the eighth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes--into the past. She finds Riley, who is being pursued by futuristic soldiers, and saves him. Working together again, it is up to Chevie and Riley to find the enigmatic Colonel Clayton Box, who is intent on escalating his power, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.

Meet some of history's most illustrious and interesting characters in this book that visits key moments of the past from around the world. When young Augustus falls asleep in history class, Professor Tempo decides to teach him a lesson and show him that history isn't boring at all! She hands him a magic diary, all he needs to do is write the time and place to travel there. Together they head out on a whistle-stop tour of history through the ages to meet some of the world's finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters, including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Louis XIV, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus Genghis Khan, Emperor Titus in Rome, athletes at the very first Olympic Games, Tutankhamen in Egypt, and even Palaeolithic man as he discovers fire. Each double page spread introduces a different time and place, with an introductory text from Augustus which explains the sights and sounds, and accompanying captions from the Professor which provide key facts. A character index at the rear gives a short biography of all the historical characters covered, and a timeline helps to contextualize the different time periods covered.