Timesnatch

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<p>Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?</p><p>Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.</p><p>It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...</p><p>WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY</p>

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<p>ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.</p><p>RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.</p><p>'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES</p><p>'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH</p>

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