Time Travelling with a Hamster
by:
Ross Welford (author)
A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children’s books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, and save his father’s life…“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again...
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A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children’s books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, and save his father’s life…“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn’t been for his ‘time machine’…”When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad’s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer…
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9780008156329
ASIN: B014OM3ZZQ
Publish date: 2015-12-31
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I’m not sure I’m any less baffled by time travel after reading this, but what a fun adventure of a story.Time Travelling with a Hamster is packed full of mischief, adventure, family, friendship, grief, love, time travel, random facts, and of course, not forgetting the pet hamster.This story also has...
In modern-day Tyneside, on his 12th birthday, Al gets given a letter from his father who had died a few years earlier. The letter invites him to use a time machine which will help to save his father’s life. Like a junior version of “The Butterfly Effect”, this does not go according to plan for most ...