With the centennial, we'll be studying WWI this year, and this is a perfect book to accompany that. It has the time travel element that so many of my students love, which makes it more likely that they'll pick it up. The characters are clean, the story has some great twists (I figured out about 60% through how it would end, but it will take the kids longer), and good historical context. The one thing I'd like to see more of is fleshing out interactions....or maybe just a longer stay. In the interest of it being an upper elementary book, it's a good length; but it could be upper grades if it were fleshed out more.

Stories about schools and adventuring are extremely popular at the moment and, as we are about to commemorate the end of the Great War, it is quite common to link the two topics together. This story sees the heroes going back in time to the end of the war and how their lives become entwined with the lives of the children who find them. It was a great story but also full of pathos and a sense of the heartache that families suffered when they were waiting to hear about loved ones. Definitely one to add to topic lists in school.

I received a free copy of Time School: We Will Remember Them by Nikki Young in exchange for an honest review. The underlying theme of this book is the importance of remembering the past because what happened then shaped the present. The story is told from the viewpoint of Jess. Jess and her friends go back in time to experience life on the homefront during wartime. In a limited capacity, they experience the differences in how children and women were treated in the past. To some extent, they also experienced the results of rationing. A number of deaths from the school were noted, but none of the fallen heroes were known to Jess and her friends. Though war orphans were mentioned as a way of explaining the children’s presence at the school, the book just briefly touches on them as an accepted thing. Overall, this would be a fairly gentle way to introduce a child to the World Wars.

This was a short, sweet story with a happy ending.

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Everybody's dream..... Spend some time in the past (or the future) Taken back 100 years, four school friends relive a life they could only imagine, as the big war came to an end. Seeing their neighbourhood as it was all that time ago and living a couple of days with the people of that time. People they feel they should know, but are not too sure. An entertaining read, that made me miss a night's sleep - reading. I could not put it down

Although this is written for a younger audience, I really enjoyed it.
I liked the twists and the suspense of what would happen.
The characters were likeable and it was a well written book.

An example of how literature can inspire you people. Here is a modern scripted book with an up to date young person's novel which combines schools days with a dollop of history and mysterious time travel.
The way young people learn history is often through modern reconstructions and re-enactments of life as it was at that time; with access to first hand accounts, artifacts from the period and visual materials like film accounts or audio extracts.
I have been blessed in the past 12 months to have vistited France and Belguim and seen sites, memorials and museums commenorating the Centenary of the end of the First World War, in 1918.
The incidents that ress with me most were the number of school children visiting cemematories and standing during the Last Post at the Menin Gate.
Imagine if just before a school project on life at home during the Great War, your normal train journey to school becomes a portal in time and when you alight from the carriage the train has transported you 100 years back. As you are late you hardly notice until your school looks different and remarkably clean. It takes a while for the four friends to work out what has happened or why it has effected only them. At first they think it is to make a difference especially to Martha who befriends them but apart from her preoccupation with her brother getting home safely from the war there seems little the school friends can know or influence. In the end they take it upon themselves to value the experience as a unique chance to understand what it was like 100 years ago.
Always clear with strong characterisation and dialogue there is a distinction between the two time zones, some good and some bad.
It turns the thought of a school re-union on the head and is written with real empathy and skill that leaves me as moved as hearing the bugle playing fading in the Flemish night.
A great read, that will move anyone and perhaps help a reader to remember them.

I thoroughly enjoyed this great read. All the characters in the story felt so real, I could imagine what they were like and they felt rounded. I was especially impressed by the dialogue which sounded like the way I have heard children talk to each other and really helped to bring all the characters alive. I am looking forward to reading more in this series and enjoying the adventures of these four-time travelers.

Cute lightweight story to introduce younger readers to WWI. There isn't a lot of detail, but that's probably due to the age of the target audience. With the allure of a Harry Potteresque train and the excitement of time travel, I think children will enjoy this book!