Nancy Etchemendy

This fantasy book is about the dangerous business of tweaking time with a hand-held time-changing device called "the unner" that can undo specific events by going back in time. This creative idea, however, falls short with mostly stock characters that need to be more fully developed. The complicated themes and plot twists redeem the book as it examines powerful questions about ethics and personal power. It is a good way to get kids thinking about how to live with the mistakes we all make show more when we cannot change them. show less

What a book, even rereading it years later, it has a good solid feel to it. I read this as a kid and it's just such a joy to recall. One of those books you don't fully see everything until it all wraps up into a neat little package at the end.

Highly recommend.

time travel for third to fifth grade. Good look at the contradictions and troubles associated with trying to fix things.

Science Fitction, 3rd-5th Grade,