The Time-Jinx Twins, Book 1
“An endearing and engaging middle-grade adventure”
Kirkus Reviews
A “clever, captivating time-travel”
Publishers Weekly Booklife
Twelve-year-old Ellie is bummed when her world-traveler father brings her identical twin sister Kat to Chicago to live with Ellie and their physicist mom. Ellie barely knows Kat! And she isn’t even sure she likes her. Ellie’s into fitness and gymnastics. Sophisticated Kat is into her phone.
But then the bickering twins trigger Mom’s not-quite-finished time machine and travel to 1970 Chicago. A truce is the only way to survive and find a way home.
In tricky situations, escapes, and sometimes just for fun, the sisters make the most of their identical twinness. But increasingly desperate to return home, they resolve to think like scientists and figure it out.
Ellie’s acrobatics and aikido come in handy; Kat calls on her fact-checking, tech know-how, and to Ellie’s surprise, hidden talents for singing and improv.
If they aren’t careful, they just might become friends!
—Liesl Shurtliff, New York Times bestselling author of the Time Castaways trilogy
(Also at Ingram)
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In the Works - More Adventures for Ellie and Kat!
The Missing Magician: Book 2 of The Time-Jinx Twins
A young time-traveler desperate to save his father’s life enlists Ellie and Kat to visit 1323 England, where they travel the countryside as part of a troupe of acrobats and musicians.
Fake news becomes a matter of life-and-death in the medieval past—and in the present, rumors and lies cause an embarrassing middle-grade crisis.