Our book recommendation for the letter P is... The Portal (Tangled in Time #1)
by Kathryn Lasky
Snr Fiction – Currently available in only Book format
After Rose’s mum dies suddenly in an accident, Rose is sent to live with her Grandmother Rosalinda in a fancy but rundown house in a different city. Rose designs clothing, upcycles thrift shop buys, and writes a fashion blog and comes to the attention of the ‘mean girls’ at her new school.
She is very unhappy in her school, finds it hard to settle in her grandmother’s mansion and feels happiest spending time with her grandmother in the amazing tudor-style greenhouse. One night she finds herself falling back in time to the 16th Century. She finds herself at Hatfield House, the home of Princess Elizabeth, second daughter of King Henry VIII. Elizabeth was banished to Hatfield after Henry had her mother Anne Boleyn executed. Rose is hired to be Elizabeth’s servant and gets mixed up in the ‘politics at the palace’.
Rose is given the gift of a golden locket containing a picture of her mother in one side, and an unidentified man (maybe her father?) in the other. Rose sets off on a search for him, and the story moves between the 21st century with her grandmother and the 16th century looking for her father.
Does anyone at Hatfield find out that Rose is a time-traveller? Does Rose manage to find her father, and what century is he living in? Can she find her way back to the 21st Century?
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