Relates what happens to three American childen, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
Anticipating a lonely spring vacation because her parents and grown brothers and sister are preoccupied with their own pursuits, Charlotte becomes involved in their town's annual Patriots' Day celebration.
Living in the not-so-distant future when the energy supply has been almost depleted, a teenage boy explores the deserted colonies near his father's Cape Cod research station and begins to understand the long-term effects of recent climate and weather changes and environmental pollution on the land and the people.
Seventeen-year-old Lyn, working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England.
From the moment that she and her newly-formed family arrive at the isolated old stone house in the north of England, 14-year-old Penelope has a sense of foreboding that is borne out by the events of the following summer.
While visiting her friend Oliver in London, sixteen-year-old Charlotte reluctantly agrees to accompany him on an important trip to Scotland, during which she examines their relationship and tries to understand him better.
In 1958, having been dragged by her mother to a decaying mansion in New Zealand, fourteen-year-old Alice thinks that she has stumbled on a shocking secret involving her long-dead father.
Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.
When Charlotte's friend Oliver's life is shattered by the death of his eighty-two-year-old great-uncle and guardian, Oliver turns to Charlotte with urgent demands she finds herself unprepared to meet.
