Annette Laing's 
The Snipesville Chronicles

​Engaging & Fun Historical Time-Travel Novels That Make MG/YA Readers Think
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"I put character and story first, as any good novelist should, but it matters very much that I'm also a historian. Even though you won't often see my research on display front and center, it's there, quietly informing my characters' words and actions. These books are written to make you laugh, cry, and think."
​"Clever and Charming
Time-Travel Adventure"
--Kirkus Reviews
​"Laing’s combination of historical detail and sheer sense of fun ... make the story an enjoyable read"
--Kirkus Reviews
"Laing’s third volume retains all the charm and originality of the earlier two, as she uses her three-dimensional characters and engaging storytelling to teach young readers a bit of history."
--Kirkus Reviews
 "Laing’s command of historical details is formidable throughout...These instances and others show how daunting 20th-century life was for those who weren’t white, male, and moneyed. Longtime readers of the series will also be pleasantly surprised by the endearing finale."-- Kirkus Reviews

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​​Clever and Charming Time-Travel Adventure

--Kirkus Reviews

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Book 1:
​Don't Know Where,
​Don't Know When

Three Modern American Kids are Reluctant Time Travelers to WWII England

When California Girl Hannah Dias and her brother Alex move from exciting California to boring Snipesville, they meet kind and clever Brandon Clark, whose ambition is to escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor, who has a strange secret.
But that's just the beginning.

Without warning, Hannah, Brandon, and Alex are catapulted thousands of miles and nearly eighty years to World War II England. They land in a world of bomb blasts, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper. They learn so much more than they never would in a history class. Not that they want to learn it.

To get home, all they have to do is find George Braithwaite, whoever he is, and whatever it is he has to do with Snipesville. And what, the reluctant time travelers wonder, does any of this have to do with them?

ISBN: 978-0979476945
For ages 9 and up

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​​Laing’s combination of historical detail and sheer sense of fun ... make the story an enjoyable read.

--Kirkus Reviews

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Book 2:
​A Different Day,
​A Different Destiny

From the Cotton Fields of the Slave South to the Poorest Slums of Victorian Scotland, It's a Race to Fix Time


When you wake up in the year 1851 on a Scottish hillside ... or down an English coal mine ... or in a field on a Southern plantation, you know you're in for a rough day.

No day has been normal for Hannah and Alex Dias since they moved from California to the little town of Snipesville. Bad enough that they and their new friend Brandon Clark became reluctant time travelers to World War Two England. Now things are about to get worse. Much worse.

From the cotton fields of the slave South to the poorest slums of Victorian Scotland, to London's glittering Crystal Palace, the three chase a 21st century gadget through the mid-19th century. But finding it is only the beginning of what they must do to save two beloved places from destruction, and heal a wound in Time.



​For ages 9 and up
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​​Laing’s third volume retains all the charm and originality of the earlier two, as she uses her three-dimensional characters and engaging storytelling to teach young readers a bit of history. 

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Book 3:
​Look Ahead, Look Back

In Which Fortune's Wheel Turns Against Our Time Travelers

It's big news in boring Snipesville when a skeleton is found in the park. But to reluctant time travelers Brandon, Hannah, and Alex, the discovery is a shocking omen of adventures to come.

Soon, the three land in the distant year of 1752. Some people they meet, like slave Sukey, think that what happens to them is pure luck. Others, like ruthless planter Mr. Gordon, trust their own smarts to bring success.

But the three quickly learn that for everyone in the 1700s, fortune's wheel is constantly turning. And at a time when ghosts, witches, little folk, and dreams can seem as real as slavery, greed, and cruelty, their choices, too, are very few indeed.

​For ages 9 and up
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​​Laing’s command of historical details is formidable throughout...
These instances and others show how daunting 20th-century life was for those who weren’t white, male, and moneyed. Longtime readers of the series will also be pleasantly surprised by the endearing finale."

--Kirkus Reviews

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Book 4:
​One Way Or Another

In the Stunning Fourth & Final Story of The Snipesville Chronicles, Brandon, Hannah, and Alex Learn the Secrets Behind the Strangest Year of Their Lives. 

Living in the little town of Snipesville, Hannah, Alex, and Brandon didn’t expect excitement, much less time travel. But that’s what they got.
 
Now, in the final exciting book of The Snipesville Chronicles, Hannah must persuade a wayward teen in early 20th century England to become the woman she is supposed to be, or disaster will follow. Or will it?

Brandon and Alex are in sinister and segregated turn-of-the-century Snipesville, where the days are ticking down to the terrible event that local people will one day call “We Don’t Talk About That.”

One Way or Another, it will take every bit of courage and time-traveling wisdom for the three to bring The Snipesville Chronicles series to its startling conclusion, as they uncover the secrets of the most extraordinary year of their lives.

For ages 9 and up
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