title: Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times
author:  Emma Trevayne 
description: Feeling bored and unloved in his stuffy, late-nineteenth-century London home, Jack follows an enigmatic magician through a portal into an alternate world. There he explores the eerily familiar, yet frighteningly different city of Londinium, where brass grills embedded in the inhabitants nostrils enable them to breathe heavily polluted air. After being ensnared by the malevolent magician and adopted by the unstable Lady, who rules the land, Jack escapes and works with his few friends to free an ancient creature that can set things right in this damaged world. Clockwork creatures, metal fairies, and industrial pollution give the fantasy a steampunk twist. Like the storys setting, its tone is bleakuncommonly so for a novel apparently aimed at middle-graders. The dramatic plot twists, more than involvement with the mostly adult characters, will draw readers to finish the story, as will the vividly described settings and smooth pacing. The black-and-white illustrations were not available for comment, though the jacket art is intriguing. An unusual take on the alternate-worlds theme. Grades 5-7. --Carolyn Phelan
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  Under One Sky
  
  
  
  
  
  Time Travel Guardian Romance Series,
  
  
  Book 1
  
  
  
  
  
  Written by Zoe Matthews
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  Copyright © 2017
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced in any format, by any
  means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner
  and publisher of this book.
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction.  All characters, names, places, and events are the
  product of the author's imagination and used fictitiously.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_002.html#_Toc514249812)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc514249813)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc514249814)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc514249815)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc514249816)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc514249817)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc514249818)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc514249819)
  
  
  [Chapter 9]