Secrets of the Nile: A YA time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt
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Madison Bryant, 16, is escaping an awkward romance when she leaps into her friend Riley's latest invention--a time machine--as it blasts off on its maiden voyage to Ancient Egypt. Setting down by the Nile in a swirl of sand, the pair plan to stay for a day or two and observe, not interact with anyone. But when a local girl invites them to her family home, they're drawn into village dramas and can't resist using knowledge from the future to help.
An epidemic of dental troubles? Riley introduces toothpaste to the ancient culture. The vizier's teenage son drowning in a hippo-filled river? Maddy rescues him using life-saving techniques acquired on a Sydney beach.
Sure, she's read time travel stories with those warnings about not changing the past in case it changes the future in unimaginable ways. But they don't apply to her. She's just an ordinary girl -- a mere speck of sand in the vast desert of time. And nothing she does could ever change the course of history. Could it?
A high-stakes fast-paced adventure in mysterious Ancient Egypt.
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Paulene Turner is the author of the six-book YA series, The Time Travel Chronicles. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines in the US, UK and Australia. As well as writing short plays she also directs them for Short and Sweet, Sydney. She has worked as a journalist in Sydney and London.
She lives in Sydney, Australia.
