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  Angus believed I would do it, because only days ago he would have and loved every minute of it. Today he regarded me with horror. Desperately he looked around for a way to distance himself from this appalling family he seemed to be a member of. “I have to go to the bathroom,” he whispered, and he fled before I made a spectacle of myself.

  My stepmother, my cousin, my father and I shared the best thing there is to share.

  Love and laughter.

  CAROLINE B. COONEY is the author of many books for young people, including Hit the Road; Code Orange; The Girl Who Invented Romance; Family Reunion; Goddess of Yesterday (an ALA Notable Book); The Ransom of Mercy Carter; Tune In Anytime; Burning Up; The Face on the Milk Carton (an IRA-CBC Children's Choice Book) and its companions, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The Voice on the Radio (each of them an ALA Best Book for Young Adults) as well as What Janie Found; What Child Is This? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults); Driver's Ed (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors' Choice); Among Friends; Twenty Pageants Later; and the Time Travel Quartet: Both Sides of Time, Out of Time, Prisoner of Time and For All Time.

  Caroline B. Cooney lives in Westbrook, Connecticut, and New York City.

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  TIME TRAVEL QUARTET!

  Imagine moving to a different century and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.

  Meet 15—year—old Annie Lockwood, a romantic living in the wrong century. When she travels back 100 years and lands in 1895—a time when privileged young ladies wear magnificent gowns, attend elegant parties, and are courted by handsome gentlemen—Annie at last finds romance.

  But Annie is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? And if she does, will she be allowed to stay?

  Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled 100 years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price; his father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum.

  When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her.

  Can Annie save the boy she loves, or are she and Strat and her family back home out of time?

  Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century.

  As for sixteen-year-old Devonny, she has no plans for marriage until her father arranges to wed her to the contemptuous but well-connected Lord Winden. Devonny has only one hope: Someone must rescue her. Can Tod Lockwood be Time's answer to her prayers? Life never seems simple to Devonny, but do the solutions to her problems await her in the future? Or will she only become a prisoner of a different time?

  Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.

  Meanwhile, in 1899, Strat is photographing the same pyramids that Annie walks among. And while he eagerly awaits Annie's arrival, another visitor appears: his father, the man who once committed Strat to a mental institution.

  Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its force, which brought them together once, help them find each other again?

  Published by Laurel-Leaf

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  a division of Random House, Inc.

  New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

  incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or

  are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or

  dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Text copyright © 1989, 2004 by Caroline B. Cooney.

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