The Trolley to Yesterday (Johnny Dixon) - Softcover

Bellairs, John

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9780141300924: The Trolley to Yesterday (Johnny Dixon)

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ISBN 10: 0141300922 ISBN 13: 9780141300924

Publisher: Puffin, 1998

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Professor Childermass has made an astonishing discovery. Behind a bricked-up wall in his house is a rickety old trolley that can travel through time. Soon Johnny Dixon, his friend Fergie, and the professor are headed for Constan- tinople, 1453! The professor has a desperate plan to alter history, but it may cost him his life. Can Johnny and Fergie stop him before it's too late? Brace yourself for a wild ride. -- Kirkus Reviews The late John Bellairs was the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of many Gothic novels, including the novels starring Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger.

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Why is Professor Childermass acting so strange? Johnny Dixon and his friend Fergie decide to sneak over to the professor's house to investigate. What they find is wilder than anything they could have imagined, for the professor leads them through a secret cellar door and onto a rickety old trolley. It's a time machine to yesterdays, and soon Johnny and Fergie are off on the ride of their lives: to Constantinople during the Turkish invasion of 1453!

As the Byzantine Empire prepares for battle, the professor decides to try to save the people hiding in the Church of the Holy Wisdom. But Johnny and Fergie. Desperate to stop him, have hitched a ride, recklessly unaware that they risk their lives--and risk being lost in the past...forever!

About the Author:

John Anthony Bellairs (1938 1991) is an award-winning American author, perhaps best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost. He is also the author of many gothic mystery novels for children and young adults, including The House with a Clock in its Walls (which received both the New York Times Outstanding Book of Award and the American Library Association Children's Books of International Interest Award), The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb (which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award), and The Specter from the Magician’s Museum (which won the New York Public Library "Best Books for the Teen Age" Award.

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