- Imprint: Puffin
- ISBN: 9780241742624
- Length: 224 pages
- Price: £8.99
The Night I Borrowed Time
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I’m going back in time to save this family.
Eleven-year-old Zubair is a seventh son. This means a LOT of older brothers. But when Zubair’s granny arrives from Pakistan and gives him a mysterious amulet, he discovers it means something else, too: he has inherited a gift. The seventh sons in his family have the ability to time-travel.
With his dad a shadow of his former self since his car accident, and his mum constantly tired and angry, Zubair has a genius idea. He’ll use time-travel to fix things between them.
But each trip comes at a cost. If he changes something small in the past, it can have a huge effect on his future. And if he gets it wrong, the results could be devastating…
A warm, funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now, from an exciting new talent in children's books.
Eleven-year-old Zubair is a seventh son. This means a LOT of older brothers. But when Zubair’s granny arrives from Pakistan and gives him a mysterious amulet, he discovers it means something else, too: he has inherited a gift. The seventh sons in his family have the ability to time-travel.
With his dad a shadow of his former self since his car accident, and his mum constantly tired and angry, Zubair has a genius idea. He’ll use time-travel to fix things between them.
But each trip comes at a cost. If he changes something small in the past, it can have a huge effect on his future. And if he gets it wrong, the results could be devastating…
A warm, funny, heartbreaking and uplifting tale about family, bravery and living in the here and now, from an exciting new talent in children's books.
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