Books about time travel

Pablo and Splash are two penguins who’ve accidentally time-travelled to the Cretaceous period! Can they get home to the icy Antarctic before they’re eaten by dinosaurs? A funny colour graphic novel for newly confident readers. 

Siblings Ariella and Yosef are transported back in time to Georgian London, where they must save the life of a young girl before they are able to return home.

Mildew and Sponge race to solve the theft of the School Spoon in this hilarious, ridiculous adventure that takes in time travel, werewolves and even rogue Vikings.

When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a ​‘wrinkle in time’ for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as ​‘It’.

A fascinating time-travel adventure exploring the politics and history of suffragettes. 

Isaac’s life is thrown into disarray when his dad mysteriously vanishes from the belfry of Big Ben. As they search for him, Isaac and his friend Hattie uncover a sinister plot which threatens Time itself. A fast-paced mystery, which will have readers on the edge of their seats.  

When history obsessed 12-year-old Relic Hamilton accidentally unleashes an evil genie, he is whisked away on a time travelling, action-filled adventure to hunt it down alongside a secret society of tech-savvy genie hunters. 

Zubair can time travel! But can he fix his family’s problems without unintended consequences? A funny, exciting, moving story that many readers will relate to. 

This is the fifth title in an exceptionally funny series about 11-year-old Luke and his chaotic superhero world. Witty, zany and full of references to science fiction classics, this laugh-out-loud page turner will have readers on the edge of their seats.

When 12-year-old Al Chaudry learns there is a time machine sitting in the garage, he has to go and get it – then he can travel back in time and save his father’s life. The reader roots for Al all the way, in this fantastic, funny and original adventure story.

In this quirky, fantastical graphic novel, Albert Einstein is at your service to guide you through time and space on a beam of light and answer all the questions you ever wanted to ask about life, the universe and everything.

With no garden or children to play with Tom feels lonely and unhappy, until one night he hears the clock striking thirteen and discovers a secret garden.

When Cate visits Mrs Kano’s cinema, she is transported into a world beyond her wildest dreams. This wonderfully imaginative time-travel adventure beautifully explores the nature of grief, guilt and loneliness.

Elsie time travels back to India, where only she can stop her grandfather from killing a tiger.

Twins Scarlett and Thomas travel back in time to the ancient Maya city of Tikal in the year 859 AD. While Scarlett befriends the King’s eldest daughter, Thomas is seized by guards for stealing and is forced to work as a slave. This thrilling, illustrated chapter book is packed full of historical detail, bringing the era alive for young readers. 

A clever, funny, timeslip adventure in which twins Pearl and Patrick Amarasinghe find out just how complex and destructive it can be to mess with history. 

Like the Bourne films with time travel and a ghost ship, Pullman’s story rockets along at thrilling speed, full of secrets, mysterious baddies and emotional drama. Adventure on the high seas meets spy thriller: a fantastically executed, exciting must-read.

A boy is given a magical diary that can take him anywhere in time.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the story of 15-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time after a strange encounter with a shadowy figure at school.

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.