Tanglewreck

by Winterson, Jeanette

• ISBN13: 9781582349190
• ISBN10: 1582349193
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Summary

Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two sinister figures come looking for it, she knows instinctively that she must guard it with her life.

Author Biography

Jeanette Winterson is a Whitbread Prize–winning author of books for adults, including Lighthousekeeping and Written on the Body, as well as The King of Capri. This is her first novel for young adults. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

1 The Time Tornado	11	(6)
2 The Visitor	17	(14)
3 Toad in the Hole	31	(10)
4 The Journey	41	(12)
5 Tempus Fugit	53	(12)
6 Thugger and Fisty	65	(10)
7 Midnight Everywhere?	75	(14)
8 Rabbits!	89	(4)
9 Midnight Everywhere	93	(8)
10 Ghosts!	101	(6)
11 The Throwbacks	107	(14)
12 Strange Meeting	121	(14)
13 Regalia Mason	135	(6)
14 Petrol Ponies	141	(16)
15 The Committee	157	(12)
16 Time Passes	169	(12)
17 Holes!	181	(6)
18 A Trip to Tower Bridge	187	(18)
19 The Einstein Line	205	(14)
20 Audience with the Pope	219	(18)
21 Big Red Bus	237	(14)
22 The Star Road	251	(10)
23 A Black Hole	261	(12)
24 International Rescue	273	(10)
25 Elves!	283	(6)
26 True Lies	289	(6)
27 Speed of Light	295	(12)
28 The Walworth Hole	307	(8)
29 Bethlehem Hospital	315	(12)
30 Spooky Action at a Distance	327	(18)
31 A New Development	345	(8)
32 Worms	353	(6)
33 Greenwich	359	(6)
34 The Sands of Time	365	(18)
35 The Swerve	383	(6)
36 The Timekeeper	389	(10)
37 Tanglewreck	399