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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781599900810
ISBN: 1599900815
Label: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Studio: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books


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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.


Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating:  out of 5 stars - So much better than I had expected!
Tanglewreck is a thoroughly engaging book. It's a page turner and for most readers, especially for those for whom this book is intended, a bit of a mind-bender. The story is suspenseful and just complicated enough, the names are wonderfully bestowed upon each character, and Winterson takes the reader to wonderful and amazing times and places. I did not catch the condescending tone mentioned by another reviewer. But then, I'm not a kid anymore. That same reviewer mentioned Pullman's Golden Compass ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Time is not behaving itself. Trains stall in time, then rush ahead as if to catch up, pyramids appear in London, a school bus gets sucked into a Time Tornado and vanishes, and there have been woolly mammoth sightings in the park. Most people can't make any sense of it, and it's getting worse. And the people who do understand it, well, they might be the most dangerous of all.

Silver is an eleven-year-old orphan, alone in the world. Well, not completely alone. She has Mrs. Rockabye, ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - I wanted this to be brilliant
Tanglewreck seemed like a perfect combination of two of my great loves -- Jeanette Winterson's work and children's books -- until I actually read it. Silver's a wonderful heroine, and the plot had heaps of potential, but Winterson seems to have entered a new genre without bothering to learn much about the way children's books work. Winterson seems to be writing for children from a great distance, as though her own early childhood isn't quite real to her; it doesn't work. Her settings never came to life ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - A compelling adventure nearly impossible to put down
Something frightening is happening to time: a 'time tornado' rips through London and a house called Tanglewood, home to eleven-year-old Silver and her aunt, are at the heart of the disturbance. For the clock known as the Timekeeper in their house controls all time - a clock Silver has guarded until its disappearance. Silver's journey to regain the clock before it ends the world results in a compelling adventure nearly impossible to put down.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch


Rating:  out of 5 stars - A minute on earth is not the same....

Silver is a young red haired, green-eyed eleven year old living in a vast house that dates back to the 1500's. Her parents and her sister, Buddleia, have been dead (or as Silver believes it missing) for four years. This means that Silver has to be taken care of by her Aunt Mrs. Rokabye, a woman who looks after her own interests. One day a man named Abel Darkwater comes into their lives, searching for an item called the timekeeper. Whatever this device does Silver is unaware, but it is plain that Darkwater ... Read More


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