“Interworld” Series by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves

1. Interworld
2. The Silver Dream
3. Eternity’s Wheel

Yes; a fast-moving imaginative story about fighting evil.

Recommended age: 12 – 14; 14 – 16; 16 – 18; Adult

Joey is walking around town on a school assignment when he walks through a fog and finds himself in a world very much like his world, but somehow different.   Suddenly attacked by futuristic raiders, he escapes with the aid of an unusual-looking man wearing a mask.   However, his escape brings him to a world where he is already dead.  Then, before he can process this, he is captured by pirates who take him up to space.   Rescued again, he finds out that he is a Walker—a person capable of passing through dimensions.  He joins Interworld in their battle against the futuristic Binary and the evil, magical HEX pirates.  In the second book, Joey meets a Time Traveler from the Time Watch organization who intervenes in Joey’s time frustrating the plans of Binary and HEX.   In the third book, Joey leads the fight to stop Binary and HEX’s universe-destroying plans.

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Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle

An intriguing look at the Prohibition Era.

Recommended age: 14 – 16; 16 – 18; Adult.  

Ruben and his friend — two fourteen-year olds — find a dead body on the beach.  This is the heart of Prohibition rum-running.   The small-town smugglers are running alcohol, and then things get more and more dangerous as bigger and bigger gangs work on muscling their way into the lucrative smuggling.

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“Adventure Through Time” series by Ted Bell

1. Nick of Time
2. The Time Pirate

Complex and exciting time travel stories.

Recommended age: 12 – 14; 14 – 16; 16 – 18; Adult

Nick lives in a lighthouse on the edge of a British Island next to France during the days before World War II.   His father is engaged with a group of “bird watchers” who are monitoring suspicious German submarine and air movements through the channel.  Seeking to help his father, Nick discovers a new German secret submarine.   At the same time, he meets a vicious pirate, William Blood, from the early 19^th century who is after a mysterious chest that Nick had just found on the shore of his island.    In the second book, Nick continues his fight against the Germans, including using an old Sopwith Camel that he and his friend, Gunner, have restored.   Nick also goes back to 1781 to rescue his sister from Captain Blood and stop Captain Blood’s attempt to change history.

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