- Juvenile fiction, Time travel, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- HarperTrophy, Random House Children's Books, ATALANTE
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- tur, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780061376672
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Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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