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Time Travelling with a Tortoise

Can time-travel help fix Albert’s grandfather? This is an exciting book with dinosaurs, doppelgängers, danger and doubt if time-travel can ever be used safely.

I really enjoyed reading this story. In this second book of the series, Albert (named after a few famous scientists) accidentally creates a scenario where his Grandad begins to lose his memory. Can time-travel help fix it? Through a journey where Al meets dinosaurs (and a tortoise) in the long distant past, to doppelgängers in a possible future, this is an exciting book. In line with the grandfather paradox of cause and effect, as you read along with Al’s adventure, you too learn to question if time-travel can ever be used safely without consequences?

Lucas Blake

Enjoy plot twists, time travel adventures and the odd tortoise too? Then this book is for you!

In this second book in the series of time travelling adventures by Ross Welford, Albert Chadbury, aptly named after a famous scientist or two, accidently makes his grandad lose his memory. But can time travel help to fix this problem? Albert thinks so, and so embarks on a time travelling journey of adventure with his friends where he meets a tortoise in the past, and doppelgangers in the future, and a few other things along the way too. But what would happen if not everyone came back to the present day? Throughout this story, crammed full of plot twists and turns, Al spends his time travelling between universes, giving him more problems along his way. A great read and refreshing content from the norm, this book gives us all time to ponder on what would really happen if we could jump between time and whether time travel could ever be used without impacting others.

Helen Robinson

This plot-twisty, time-travel adventure sees Al trying to rescue his friend but as he jumps from universe to universe he creates more problems between the dimensions along the way.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time? Well, Al Chadbury hasn't just wondered about it. He's been there. Time Travelling with a Tortoise is the sequel to Time Travelling with a Hamster, and is great for people who like adventure mixed with everyday life. After an accident with a hamster, a tortoise and a time machine, Al and his friends are transported into the past and not all of them are able to come back. On a mission with his stepsister, Al jumps from universe to universe, creating more problems between the dimensions along the way. Time Travelling with a Tortoise is even better than the first book in
the series because there were so many unexpected plot twists.

Poppy Smithson-Zipfel

I liked this book because whatever I thought would happen the opposite of that happened in the book. The emotions I felt reading this were a mix of sadness, happiness, excitement and even a bit anxious. I recommend this book to anyone between the age of 10 and 13 who likes funny or adventure books.

I liked this book because whatever I thought would happen the opposite of that happened in the book. The emotions I felt reading this book were sadness happiness excitement and I also felt anxious. I recommend this book to anyone between the age of 10 and 13 who likes funny and adventure books. I couldn't put the book down because it was a really funny book and I felt it had a way of making it funny but it fitted in with the story and almost put it in a certain place that it was a bit more funny. It had the same kind of people in it that you would see maybe daily and that helped me imagine what the people were going through and how Al was feeling about them.

Melissa

If I was to summarise this book in 3 words, they would be dimensions, suspense and confusion!

This book is about Al Chaudray, a boy who travelled back in time previously to save his father and now realises he is actually in a different dimension where his father is still alive. But here, something happens that makes his grandfather lose his memory and so he goes back in time again to save his grandad with an enemy from his dimension but friend in this one and a friend from his dimension but a stranger here... and of course, a tortoise!
It is helpful to have read the prequel, Time Travelling with a Hamster for this one!

Euan Hosie

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I loved the book it is very interesting and I couldn’t put it down. It was exciting to see what was going to happen next.

The book is all about travelling back in time. Having a tortoise with you.
Some friends don’t come back.
Al is on a mission with his stepsister. They go from universe to universe.
It is exciting as there are lots of unexpected twists and turns.
They go back and see dinosaurs and things they never thought they would see.
I loved the book it is very interesting and I couldn’t put it down. It was exciting to see what was going to happen next.

Holly Boyce