Timeline by Michael Crichton
Imagine you are a young historian, working on a project to completely renovate a French feudal castle and its environs, backed by the wealth of a rather unscrupulous billionaire who is a technology genius. In your research, you discover a call for help from the 1300s, but it is in the writing of your professor and mentor! He has gotten stuck in the past, going there through a quantum foam wormhole developed by the tech genius. You and your colleagues are sent to retrieve him, but hold on! This feudal world is full of warts and wrinkles, with inhabitants just as eager to lop your head off with a broadsword as say hello. And, even worse, only one of you even knows HOW to say hello to these locals! You must race against the clock to find the professor in time to catch your ride back to the present, swashbuckling your way through many hazards and past feudal fiends. One thing more there is a bad guy in this book and the ending is laugh-out-loud funny when he gets what he truly deserves. Jurassic Park in the middle ages! You'll love it!
Kathy Gilbreath, Bainbridge Island School District
2002 Evergreen Nominee
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