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Children interested in time travel would enjoy Madeline L'Engle's [[A Wrinkle In Time]] and Jeanette Winterson's [[Tanglewreck]], while those who enjoy historical fiction can find another eighteenth century romp in Nicola Morgan's [[The Highwayman's Footsteps]].
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|comment= My two favourite novels of tweenage years were about modern (read :60's/70's) female teenagers transported into the past (19th and 18th century); in both cases as 'repalcements' of girls already there.
They were both rather girly (in an old-fashioned, meaning concerned with relationships and social mores not modern barbie way) but I loved them, probably because there is nothing like a time travel story to show how the past differs from the present, and also to allow one to relish the superiority of the present. I have a strong feeling that I became a proto-feminist after reading the one that had a champion-swimmer 14 year old from the 60's moved to 1895 or something...
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|comment= Ah, this one sees the superiority of the present, but it also features a lonely boy who makes connections in the past sorely lacking in his present life.
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