Tangled in Time: The Portal

Name: Tangled in Time: The Portal
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathryn Lasky
ISBN: 9780062886897

Author: Kathryn Lasky

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/19/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories, Children's Social Themes, Bullying

Synopsis

“Kathryn Lasky’s latest is a sleight-of-hand that will have you clapping your hands. With the brio and big-heart that characterizes all of Lasky’s work, this opening salvo of a new series can be heralded with trumpet fanfares and clouds of rose petals.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg & SpoonFor fans of the Royal Diaries series and Gail Carson Levine, Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky delivers the first enchanting adventure in a compelling new middle grade series about a newly orphaned girl who finds herself time-travelling between the present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history.Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog.But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn.The only place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother’s greenhouse. But one night she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She goes to investigate...and finds herself transported back five hundred years to Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidant of the banished princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII.Rose soon discovers something else amazing—a locket with two mysterious images inside it, both clues to her own past. Could the greenhouse portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family...and their secrets?

About Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky is a New York Times bestselling author of many children’s and young adult books, which include her Tangled in Time series; her bestselling series Guardians of Ga’Hoole, which was made into the Warner Bros. movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; and her picture book Sugaring Time, awarded a Newbery Honor. She has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, for her novel The Night Journey and her picture book Marven of the Great North Woods. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband. kathrynlasky.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on August 12, 2020

Q: Who knew if proper time would be as interesting as time out of time? (c) Q: But what is real? Rose thought. Is this real, to be caught between two centuries? (c) Q: I shall love you through all time and place. Through every century imaginable. (c) Rosalinda, Rosemary, just plain Rose… The Royal settin......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on December 28, 2018

This is a difficult review to write. Because I wanted to like this book. I was looking forward to it. Time travel and Queen Elizabeth? Good show! But at last, disappointment was waiting for me. It was quite drawn out. If it had been a bit shorter, it would have been considerably more enjoyable. Right......more

Goodreads review by Mila on September 28, 2018

The digital arc of this book was kindly provided by the publisher via Edelweiss+ website in exchange for an honest review. The main idea of this book is fascinating but the execution really fell flat, in my opinion. It was ridiculously over the top when it came to bullying, extremely simplistic when......more

Goodreads review by Reading Through the Lists on April 27, 2019

I just...don't understand. Ok first, props for the cover. Very appealing cover, and the audiobook narrator was pretty good too. And granted, I'm hardly the target age/audience for such a book; perhaps my 10-year old self would have enjoyed it (Perhaps). But while I normally enjoy historical fiction......more

Goodreads review by Katie on October 17, 2019

My lifelong obsession with The Tudors started with Kathryn Lasky’s book on Queen Elizabeth from the Royal Diaries series, so I can’t help but wonder if I were still a 9-year-old instead of a 30-year-old, would I have felt differently about this book? The plot revolves around Rose and her ability to t......more