For All Time ANNOTATION
Annie, a teenager in 1999, tries to travel back in time to join her lost love Strat in Egypt in 1899, but instead she ends up in ancient Egypt and in great danger.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Strat was born — to a world far removed from the one she knows. Meanwhile, in 1899, Strat is photographing the same pyramids that Annie walks among. But while Strat eagerly awaits Annie’s arrival, another visitor arrives: his father, Hiram Stratton, Sr., has come to Egypt to collect his son.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its force, which brought them together once, help them find each other again?
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
The time-travel series that began with Both Sides of Time adds another breathlessly romantic whirl through the centuries. Experienced time-traveler and 20th-century high-schooler Annie ventures into New York City to see an exhibit of Egyptian art in which she hopes to find a photograph of Strat, her lost 19th-century love. With any luck, seeing Strat's image will magically jolt Annie back through time. The jolting works a bit too well: instead of stopping in Strat's era, Annie journeys all the way to ancient Egypt, where she is taken in (? la Moses in the bulrushes) by the pious yet independent-minded Renifer. Meanwhile, back in the 19th century, feisty Camilla Mateusz disguises herself as a young man and goes to work for a private detective. Assigned to hunt down Strat on behalf of his evil father, Camilla ends up in Egypt, at the dig where Strat works as a photographer. Narrated in the author's characteristically breezily, intimate style, a series of swoopy, swoony plot twists links the various characters and time periods. Although the flap copy indicates that this installation will conclude the series, its end (featuring Annie's nascent relationship with Strat's great-grandnephew) certainly doesn't rule out a sequel. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) FYI: The covers of the previous books in the series Both Sides of Time; Out of Time and Prisoner of Time sport a new design that connects all four. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
VOYA
Annie Lockwood's parents have remarried and are off honeymooning, leaving her unsupervised for four days. Now she can attempt to travel back one hundred years through Time to find her beloved Strat. While in the Museum of Modern Art viewing an Egyptian exhibit featuring the famed 1899 Lightner Expedition—where Strat was a member—she meets Lockwood Stratton, great-grandson of Strat's sister, Devonny. Suddenly, Time cruelly plummets her back thousands of years to ancient Egypt and the days of the pyramids. Here the exquisite Renifer, daughter of privilege, rescues her. Together Renifer's tomb-robbing father and conniving fiancé, Panku, bury them alive in a tomb to cover up their despicable crimes. Meanwhile, in 1899 at the Lightner dig, tall and statuesque Camilla, masquerading as reporter, searches for Strat on behalf of the unscrupulous Hiram Stratton Sr. and in the process, finds love with the virtuous Dr. Archibald Lightner. When Strat accidentally discovers the ancient tomb housing the remains of Annie and Renifer, Time transports him back to save them from their hideous fate. In the end, Annie leaves Strat behind, returns to 1999, and begins a budding romance with Lockwood. Cooney once said that she loved a good romance and to the reader's delight, she has written another one. Enough background information is given, making prereading this series' Both Sides of Time (Delacorte, 1995/VOYA August 1995), Out of Time (1996/VOYA April 1996), and Prisoner of Time (1998/VOYA June 1998) unnecessary to enjoy this concluding time-travel romance. It is all there—long-suffering love, personal sacrifice, treachery, integrity, and damsels swooning in this novel recommended forgentle hearts believing love conquers all and happily ever after. VOYA CODES:4Q 4P M J S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses;Broad general YA appeal;Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8;Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9;Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2001, Delacorte, 263p, $12.95. Ages 11 to 18. Reviewer:Cheryl Karp Ward—VOYA, December 2001 (Vol. 24, No. 5)
KLIATT - Barbara McKee
In this fourth volume in a time travel/romance series (following Both Sides of Time, Out of Time, and Prisoner of Time), Annie Lockwood wants to travel back in time from 1999 to find her boyfriend Strat, who is in Cairo in the year 1899. She goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where there is a photograph she thinks Strat took. She gets flung back in time but ends up in Ancient Egypt instead, thousand of years earlier. There she meets Renifer, an Egyptian girl, and her evil suitor Pankh, and becomes part of Renifer's family. In Strat's time, he is part of Dr. Lightner's expedition and is joined by Camilla, a young Polish girl masquerading as a reporter in order to spy for Strat's father. Strat and Annie end up in Ancient Egypt and then are pulled apart again by time. Fans will be looking forward to the continuing saga of Annie and Strat and their romance. KLIATT Codes: JS; Recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2001, Random House, Dell Laurel-Leaf, 261p.,
School Library Journal
Gr 6-10-Annie and Strat are in love. The only problem is that he lives in 1899, while she lives in 2001. After her parents leave on their second honeymoon, she rushes to the Egyptian exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It contains photos of an archaeological expedition of which Strat was a part, and she is sure that they will help her to reconnect with him. The plot zigzags as Time takes her back to where he is located in Egypt, only about 4000 years before he will arrive. She is taken in and treated kindly by a wealthy Egyptian girl. Unfortunately, Renifer soon discovers that her father and fianc are both tomb robbers and will gladly exchange the girls' lives for gold. Strat arrives in time to rescue them after they've been lowered into a tomb as Pharaoh's human sacrifices. He and Annie go back to 1899 to face his evil father. As soon as Strat is safe, Annie is whisked back to the 20th century, with barely enough time to say good-bye. Ancient Egypt comes to life in Cooney's skillful hands, as she seamlessly spins her tale of love and betrayal along the Nile of 2500 B.C., in archaeological digs of A.D. 1899, and at the museum of A.D. 2001. Though the chapters jump back and forth among different characters, each one is fleshed out and woven together through time to form an intriguing story. The moderate start soon picks up speed and doesn't slow down until the ending. This is a fast-paced stand-alone conclusion to the series that began with Both Sides of Time (Laurel-Leaf, 1997).-Kim Harris, Newman Riga Library, Churchville, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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