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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
What's the saying - sin in haste, repent at leisure? Well Adam is going to be the embodiment of that. One moment where he plants a kiss on his best mate's girl's lips, even though they seem to have split up - at least temporarily - and lo and behold he's snatched by a passing dirigible, and shipped across the universe, to a place outside of time, where the idea is he has three hundred years in prison as penance, after which he will be inserted into the very instance he leaves, remembering only that he should behave a bit more diplomatically in future. Of course, Adam has other ideas...
More teens breaking out of a prison can be read in the brilliantly dark series I only met with book three - [[Furnace: Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith]], while more youngsters are in a time-frozen future for allegedly brighter reasons in [[Chronosphere: Time Out of Time by Alex Woolf]].