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The Time Thief

by Linda Buckley-Archer

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Series: The Gideon Trilogy (2)

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When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
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uhh it can't just end there they ended up in the same predicament that they started with but this time Kate is sick and they think the world might end. ( )
  Brinlie.Jill.Searle | Nov 22, 2016 |
So far, I like it! ( )
  Dmtcer | Jun 3, 2014 |
So far, I like it! ( )
  Dmtcer | Jun 3, 2014 |
Second book in a good trilogy. ( )
  jfoster_sf | Jun 27, 2011 |
This book is about a boy named Peter Shock and a girl named Kate Dyer.Peter was left behind in 1763, while Kate traveled back to the future. She told Peter's dad about the incident and they stole back the time machine, but traveled to the wrong time, 1792. once there They found Peter all grown up possing as Gideon's younger brother Joshua. They then went to France to find the Marquis de Montfaron to see if he could try to fix the machine. they succesfuly persuade him to fix it on the condittion that he be able to come with them when they return. They fix the machine and head back to the futue where Peter is allready back and waiting for them. They celebrate, but then the Tar Man comes and steales both the old and new antigravity machines along with Kate and Peter. When they wake up they see The Tar Man with his former employer Lord Luxon. They also see Lord Luxon betray the Tar Man and watch as he travelse to the future with the old time machine, leaving the new on that has a lock on it that non of them know the password to.
This was a good book and i liked it a lot for it's many different prospectives. ( )
  Darthtony0 | May 13, 2011 |
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I did not sleep the night I feared would be my last on earth.
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Oxford Street

In which the Tar Man has his first encounter
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It was late afternoon on December 30, the last Sunday of the Christmas holidays, and freezing fog had settled, shroudlike, over London.
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When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

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