Voices After Midnight

This has it all - time-slip, romance, the American culture (I use that word loosely!) so beloved of teenage TV addicts and an element of mystery and suspense. Brothers Chad and Luke discover, on a family trip to New York, that they are able to travel through time - back to the terrible blizzards of 1888. They become involved in a rescue which proves to be significant for them: they save their own relatives. The plot is often tense and well-paced, though the time-travel sequences are sometimes too wordy. The boys' sister, Heidi, is an rritating character who falls uneasily between humour and pathos. I think Year 8 and up will be absorbed - it would probably transfer well to television, too.