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The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch
When Spence witnesses his classmate Clara die in what looks like a tragic accident at a house party, he is ca
ught in a flicker in the fabric of time. Waking up to relive the same day again and seeing Clara alive and well, Spencer realises he has been granted a second chance and is determined to prevent the terrible events of the party.
To escape the time loop, he has to re-evaluate everything he previously took for granted and find the courage to call out his own and others’ complicity in events the events that marked the life and death of Clara Hart.
Throwback by Maurene Goo
Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom, Priscilla, who is a first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader and expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge fight, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.
To her shock, Sam lands in the ’90s . . . alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with outdated tech, regressive ’90s attitudes, and a time-crossed romance with the right guy in the wrong era.
With the clock ticking, Sam must figure out how to fix things with Priscilla or risk being trapped in an analog world forever. Sam’s blast to the past has her questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself.
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
It is Charlotte’s first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge, dark cedar tree! Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back 40 years….
Charlotte Sometimes was first published in 1969.
The Door that Led to Where by Sally Gardner
AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change – but he could never have imagined by how much.
Tidying up the archive one day, AJ finds an old key, mysteriously labelled with his name and date of birth – and he becomes determined to find the door that fits the key. And so begins an amazing journey to a very real and tangible past – 1830, to be precise – where the streets of modern Clerkenwell are replaced with cobbles and carts, and the law can be twisted to suit a villain’s means. Although life in 1830 is cheap, AJ and his friends quickly find that their own lives have much more value. They’ve gone from sad youth statistics to young men with purpose – and at the heart of everything lies a crime that only they can solve. But with enemies all around, can they unravel the mysteries of the past, before it unravels them?
The Amazing Mr Blunden by Antonia Barber (first published in 1969 as The Ghosts)
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling… That’s when she started to believe the rumours in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared – until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy, coming towards them. That was the beginning of a strange and dangerous friendship between Lucy and Jamie and two children who had died a century before…
The ghost children desperately need their help – but would Lucy and Jamie have the courage to venture into the past and change the terrible events that led to murder?