Time Travel/Time Slip Novels

Compiled by Beck Smith, from CHILDLIT listserv

This list is divided into several categories:

1. "Coming-to-Terms"-- Time-travel books in which the protagonist learns, through dealing with peo ple/events in another time, how to better deal with his/her own life.

2. "Historical"--Time-travel books using actual historical events, places or persons

3. "Humor"-- Time-travel stories played for laughs

4. "Mystery"-- Time-travel books that are, basically, mysteries

5. "Science Fiction"--Time-travel books with science fiction/fantasy Fantasy elements (other than time travel...)

Coming-to-Terms

• Adkins, Jan -- A Storm Without Rain
• Griffin, Peni -- Switching Well
• Farmer, Penelope -- Charlotte Sometimes
• Hahn, Mary Downing -- Time for Andrew
• Kennemore, Tim -- Changing Times
• L'Engle, Madeleine -- An Acceptable Time
• Mazer, Norma Fox -- Saturday, the Twelfth of October
• Moskin, Marietta -- Dream Lake
• Pascal, Francine -- Hangin' Out with Cici
• Pearce, Philippa -- Tom's Midnight Garden
• Pearson, Kit -- A Handful of Time
• Slepian, Jan -- Back to Before
• Thomas, Jane -- The Princess in the Pigpen
• Voigt, Cynthia -- Building Blocks

Historical

• Beckman, Thea -- Crusade in Jeans
• Bethancourt, T. -- The Tomorrow Connection
• Bond, Nancy -- Another Shore
• Cheetham, Ann -- Black Harvest
• Cheetham, Ann -- The Pit
• French, Jackie -- Somewhere Around the Corner
• Goodwin, Marie -- Where the Towers Pierce the Sky
• Hurmence, Belinda -- A Girl Called Boy
• James, J. Alison -- Sing for a Gentle Rain
• Lunn, Janet -- The Root Cellar
• Mooney, Bel -- The Stove Haunting
• Park, Ruth -- Playing Beatie Bow
• Peyton, K. M. -- A Pattern of Roses
• Radford, Ken -- Haunting at Mill Lane
• Radford, Ken -- House in the Shadows
• Rodowsky, Colby -- Keeping Time
• Weldrick, Valerie -- Time Sweep
• Wibberley, Leonard -- The Crime of Martin Coverly
• Wiseman, David -- Adam's Common
• Wiseman, David -- Thimbles
• Yolen, Jane -- The Devil's Arithmetic

Humor

• Gifaldi, David -- Gregory, Maw, and the Mean One
• Greer, Gery -- Max and Me and the Time Machine
• Greer, Gery -- Max and Me and the Wild West
• Griffith, Helen -- Journal of a Teenage Genius
• Peck, Richard -- The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
• Scieszka, Jon -- Time Warp Trio Series:
  
  • Knights of the Kitchen Table
    
  • The Not-So-Jolly Roger
    
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
    
  • Your Mother Was a Neanderthal
    
  • 2095

• Avi -- Something Upstairs
• Dunlop, Eileen -- The Maze Stone
• MacDonald, Reby -- The Ghosts of Austwick Manor
• Peck, Richard -- Voices After Midnight
• Reiss, Kathryn -- Time Windows

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• Alexander, Lloyd -- Time Cat
• Barron, T. A. -- The Ancient One
• Bellairs, John -- The Ghost in the Mirror
• Chetwin, Grace -- Collidescope
• Chetwin, Grace -- On All Hallow's Eve
• Conrad, Pam -- Stonewords
• Coville, Bruce -- The Dinosaur that Followed Me Home
• Eager, Edward -- Time Garden
• L'Engle, Madeleine -- Many Waters
• Lindbergh, Anne -- Nick of Time
• Lindbergh, Anne -- Three Lives to Live
• Mahy, Margaret -- Aliens in the Family
• Marsden, John -- Out of Time
• Pausacker, Jenny -- Fast Forward
• Peel, John -- Uptime, Downtime
• Rodda, Emily -- The Best-Kept Secret
• Sauer, Julia -- Fog Magic
• Sleator, William -- Strange Attractors
• Uttley, Alison -- A Traveller in Time
• Vande Velde, Vivian -- A Well-Timed Enchantment

This doesn't include everything that was listed on "Childlit" (a lot of those were adult novels suitable for teens...) but it does include most of it, plus many suggestions of my own.