The Time Travelers (edition 2012)

Two children from our time are accidentally sent back to 1763, where they make the acquaintance of Gideon Seymour, former pickpocket and cutpurse, and his arch-enemy, the Tar Man. I liked it, but didn’t love it. ( )

well its a really good book to read if u like harry potter.

I loved this book. What struck it about me right away was how the chapters were laid out and explained in the Table of Contents. That reminded me of the style of really old books and made me even more interested in the story. I found the story easy-to-read and fun. However, one of the main problems with the book is that it takes entirely too long to get to the main story of the book. I almost lost interest before the author got there. While I wasn't a big fan of the characters in the beginning, they grew on me. ( )

This book is about a boy named Peter Shock and a girl named Kate Dyer. Peter had a fight with his father because his father had a meeting to go to on the day he said he would stay home for Peter's birthday treat. Peter is angry and goes with his au pair, Margrit, to one of her friend's house. Once there, Peter is introduced to all of the Dyer children. Mr. Dyer then takes his oldest dauter Kate, Peter, and thier dog Molly to his lab where they are trying to make antigravity. When Molly acidentaly gets shocked, Kate and Peter run after her. When they awake they find that they are in another time. A man named the Tar Man wakes Peter up and tells him to meet him in the Black Lion tavern in London if they want their machine back. They then meet Gideon Seymour. Gideon had been walking to his new imploiers house and had seen Kate and Peter materializ out of thin air. Once there, Kate and Peter are helped and go with the Byng family to help their youngest son Jack meet the before he leaves. They go and arrive with a lot of truble such as bieng attacked by the Carric gang, the nefarious Ned Porter twice, and losing their carridge. Jack gets touched by the king in an attempt to get rid of his scruffolia and Peter becomes friends with the queen. They find the Black Lion in with the help of Tom, who was kicked out of the Carric gang as they fled from the group as they killed Ned Porter. They find the Tar Man who challenges Gideon to a race for the antigravity machine. Peter goes on ahed with Parson Ledbury and find that Gideon is the first one to come back. Then the Tar Man arrives a tells of how his hourse could not run anymore. They allso find that the machine is missing. They whent to Fleet Street where they met Mr.Dyer.They then helpped Gideon get out of his hanging, found the antigravity machine, and at the last moment, Peter steped away from the machine and the Tar Man took his place as they were transported to the future, leaving Peter behind.
I liked this book a lot because of it's different storyline. ( )

It was written beautifully and I was more than happy with the plot. It was one of the books that caught me. Some books just catch you up in the action and adventure of it all and this book did was no different. The characters of Peter and Kate were developed beautifully and Gideon will forever be my hero. Looking forward to the next one. It was a bit slow, but more than worth getting the next one. ( )