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The Night I Borrowed Time

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This is a funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now.

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ISBN: 9780241742624 Category: Children's - Older Readers Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: divorce, separation, family
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A funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now, perfect for fans of Time Travelling With a Hamster and Wonder.

I’m going back in time to save this family.

Eleven-year-old Zubair is a seventh son. This means a LOT of big brothers. But when Zubair’s granny arrives from Pakistan and gives him a mysterious amulet, he discovers it means something else, too: he has inherited a gift. The seventh sons in his family have the ability to time-travel.

With his dad a shadow of his former self since his car accident, and his mum always tired and angry, Zubair has a genius idea. He’ll use time-travel to fix things between them.

But each trip comes at a cost. If he changes something small in the past, it can have a huge effect on his future. And if he gets it wrong, the results could be devastating . . .

‘Spectacular’ Sophie Anderson

‘I loved it’ Ross Welford

‘Funny, exciting and tense . . . A wonderful, wonderful read’ Phil Earle

‘Will break your heart and make it soar . . . A triumph’ Rashmi Sirdeshpande

‘Witty and poignant’ Louie Stowell

‘Refreshingly inventive and gorgeously written . . . I could not put it down’ Clare Harlow

‘Astonishing . . . A beautiful book’ Philippa Leathley

‘A small miracle of a book’ Max Boucherat

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Weight 0.258 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.8 × 2.1 cm
Author

Hussain, Iqbal

Publisher

Puffin

Imprint

Puffin

Cover

Paperback

Pages

224

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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