Time Travel with your Local Library!

It is Time Travel time – oh wait! I mean Time CHANGE time!

March 9, 2025, is Daylight Saving Time, so we will change our clocks forward an hour. That means the sun will set an hour later. Here are some fun books about time travel to go with our one-hour time travel journey.

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The Time Travel Twins

By James Patterson and Tad Safran

A twin sister and brother, Pew and Basket, decide to escape from their orphanage, go on an adventure, and possibly find the parents they have never known. The twins are shocked when they figure out that they possess the ability to time travel.

This book will bring you on an epic quest to George Washington's war tent, the Liberty Bell, the battlefields of the American Revolution, a pirate republic of the Caribbean and beyond. Sometimes, it's not a fun adventure but a race to uncover the secrets of their family and outsmart time's greatest villain.

Time Travel Inn

By Bart King

Time Travel Inn is an interactive science fiction mystery adventure book. You can choose your adventure while battling gladiators and running from dinosaurs. Grandmother Dolores vanished and left the Inn to the family to take over. Something doesn't seem right about how their grandmother disappeared and why the family left Florida to move to rural Wisconsin. On top of that, the neighborhood kids are telling you wild tales about your new home.

Tim Possible & the Time-Traveling T. Rex

By Axel Maisy

Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets chaotic when a time-traveling T-rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. While Tim and Tito are mesmerized by Oskar's prehistoric spaceship, they mistakenly drink impossible juice. Oh no! What does this juice do to them?

The boys are on a crazy journey battling a loony, robotic lunch lady and Oskar's AI assistant. Will they be able to save the day?

Time Traveling with a Hamster

By Ross Welford

Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine (an ancient computer and a tin bucket) and decides he will travel back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident his father was involved in. Al quickly realizes that time travel is not all that easy.

He must use his imagination to be courageous while lying to his mother and stealing a moped. Will Al be able to prevent the accident and keep himself and his hamster safe?

Max Meow Taco Time Machine

By John Gallagher

Have you ever wanted to travel through time in a taco time machine? Well, in this book, you will be able to! Max Meow, Cat Crusader and his best friend Mindy the Scientist go back in time in a time machine shaped like a taco. Mindy's dad, Professor Microbe, is lost in the time-space continuum, and it is up to Max and Mindy to save him.

Max and Mindy quickly learn that messing with time can be tricky, and before you know it, they have accidentally undone the first time they met, and they are no longer best friends. How will Max and Mindy save her father and fix their timeline?

Finn and the Time-Traveling Pajamas

By Michael Buckley

Old Man Finn needs help from his 9-year-old self and his friends Lincoln and Julep to finally defeat the Paradox, the terrible creatures obsessed with getting revenge against Finn's father. Old Man Finn promises to tell Finn where his father is, but only if they defeat the Paradox.

Old Man Finn has given them time-traveling pajamas to help with their quest. What could go wrong? How about the time-traveling pajamas malfunctioning immediately? Now, they not only have to defeat the Paradox, but they also must figure out how to fix the pajamas.

A Wrinkle in Time

By Madeleine L’Engle

Meg Murry and her friends, Charles and Calvin, become involved with unearthly strangers and set out on an adventure in space and time. Even though they are on a wild adventure, they plan to find Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract (a wrinkle in time). Will these strangers be able to help Meg and her friends and find her father?

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iStock-2152829538 | Originally published in the March 2025 issue of Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine.