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My fourth grade teacher read this particular book to us and I don't remember very much about it...but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I remember it had two boys in it and there was some way that they could gain access to another dimension or alternate reality...I want to say the 4th dimension or something like that. It's been so long (I'm 28 and was 10 when it was read to me). I would love to find this book again and appreciate any help finding it. I also think the cover may have had the face of a boy right side up and upside down. Sound familiar to anyone?

2007-03-03 04:26:42 · 5 answers · asked by Lunasea 4 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

While all the suggestions are great, I have read Madeline L'Engle books and it's not by her. The other suggestions sound close, but they aren't the book I'm looking for either. Thanks for all the input so far! On another note, it wasn't very fantasy oriented - or even sci-fi...I want to say it was like a reverse dimension or something strange like that.

2007-03-05 05:55:07 · update #1

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I'm pretty sure you are looking for "A Wrinkle in Time." In this book a girl and her brother travel through time in search of their father who disappears after an experiment while working for the government. Their travels take them around the universe to unusual places. I remember reading this book around the same time in school.

2007-03-03 04:43:06 · answer #1 · answered by Allison S 5 · 1 0

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OK, so it's not "Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars" by Daniel Pinkwater as I first suggested. How about this, then: William Sleator's "Singularity" originally came out in 1985. There are twin brothers who are rivals. They discover a playhouse that makes time move faster once you're inside it, and one brother decides to spend enough time in it to make himself a year older than his twin. There is a monster in another dimension that comes through the time portal and eventually destroys the playhouse.

Then again, the book is probably a little too old for fourth graders, since the boys were teenagers in the book and there is a skinny dipping neighbor girl in the story!!

2007-03-03 10:26:33 · answer #2 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 0 0

I'm tempted to point you in the direction of Madeline L'Engle. Check her books out and see if anything clicks

2007-03-03 04:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by crzywriter 5 · 0 0

It sounds similar to William Sleator s "The Boy Who Reversed Himself."

2015-02-21 16:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by Alaundra 1 · 0 0

i don't know but you could try the thief of always?

2007-03-03 04:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by bookboy238 2 · 0 0

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