Time School
Today I am pleased to be able to
participate in the blog tour for Time
School by Nikki Young. My thanks go
to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours
About the Book
A power cut and a
series of mini disasters means friends, Jess, Nadia, Tomma and Ash barely make
it to the station to catch their train to school. What they find is a far cry
from the usual packed commuter train they're expecting... When they arrive at
Hickley School, the children are surprised to find some of the buildings
missing and they don't recognise any of the other pupils, who are all dressed
in a different style of uniform. The only person who takes the time to help
them is Martha, despite being preoccupied by her own worries about her family
being hungry and not hearing from brother, Henry whom she says is away fighting.
The children soon realise this is no normal day and it's not until they return
home that they're able to figure out what happened. What they don't know is
whether it was a one-off day, or if they will get to see Martha and the other
pupils again. Jess hopes so. She has something she needs to tell Martha. Not
knowing how or why, she feels a connection and an obligation to this girl she
can't explain.
Review
Today on my blog I have two reviews
for this fabulous book so first of all I will hand you over to my little
reviewer Amelia.
Amelia’s review
My mum and I read this book each
night before I went to bed, and I loved being able to spend time with my mum
when I was in my PJ’s lay on her bed reading.
There were four main characters Jess, Nadia, Tomma and Ash. A power cut happened to occur one morning
/night and every single clock had stopped at the exact time reading 03:42.
My thoughts where I wanted to keep reading this book and didn’t want my
mum to stop reading at night as I didn’t want her to put the book down and kept
asking for that “just one more chapter”.
This was because I was hooked with the story and wanted to know what was
going to happen next and kept me guessing when and what was going to happen
next.
The author made me feel that I was in the book with them and I was fascinated
with what was happening in the book and could feel the story developing as my
mum was reading this.
My review
Time School is a story about four
children who through a power cut and a series of events that morning, catch a train
to school as they do every day but on this day as they get in the carriage to
go to school, realise that things are different, there are empty sections of
the train, steam blowing from the train and the scenery seems to be completely different
as they travel along the rails.
On arrival at school, they are
faced with a school which is not like their normal school despite being called
the same. They are in a different
uniform and everything is really bizarre for them. They get to met a girl called Martha who to
Jess is strangely familiar but she has no idea why. This was a lovely book and the author has
done a magnificent job weaving in the past events that have happened with the
fiction of the present in this book. I
loved how we are left wondering which year they are in and it is only as you
read the book that things become clear which when both Amelia and I discovered
this were like “Wow”.
This was a book I loved loved
loved reading with Amelia. It was a book
we could discuss and with us both being fascinated as to how the story was progressing. I admit to having a guess along the way with
sometimes being right but also getting some guesses wrong. I was extremely disappointed when it came to me
calling the book a day some evenings as was really excited to see how the story
would progress and would sometimes have to sneak in an extra chapter when Amelia
had gone to bed to see how things would pan out. (I know I’m a bad mum, but I will say that I
enjoyed reading those chapters again with Amelia to watch her face as the story
slotted into place for her).
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| To stop, stand and remember |
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| Never forget |
It was a lovely story and made even
more special for us as in our local village and town they are currently getting
ready to commemorate and honour 100 years since WW1 and I was
lucky enough to be able to visit both the sites of where these memorials will
be held and grab some photos and share these with you.
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| Lest we Forget |
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| A place to sit and reflect |
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| Through the window of time |
About the Author
Nikki Young is a
writer and lover of stories and ‘The Mystery of the Disappearing Underpants’ is
her first book. Nikki credits her lively imagination to an amazing childhood,
growing up in Yorkshire and living in a cul-de-sac in the days when children
were allowed to run free and left to make their own fun! Now a mum of three,
she says that in her head, she hasn’t really grown up and those memories of her
childhood days remain strong and active.
Social Media Links
Website : http://www.nikkiyoung.co.uk/
Twitter: @nikki_cyoung
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tour with these fabulous blogs:
My thanks to Nikki Young for writing such a fascinating book
and am pleased to learn from reading other reviews and interviews on this blog
tour that this is the first in a series.
Roll on the next one so Amelia and I can read this as well. I would also
like to thank Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for my spot on the blog tour.
The following pictures were captured from the car on the way to my parents.
They are located in the South Ribble War Memorial near Lostock Hall.
