ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 13 Apr 2020
‘Patience Agbabi has created something fresh and original here, and I look forward very much to what she writes next’ – Philip Pullman
‘An exciting, bold, witty and magical book’ – Katherine Rundell
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bibi-Imbele Ifie has The Gift, but she’s never used it. Until now.
On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time – and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle’s adventure becomes more than a race through time. It’s a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it – before it ceases to exist…
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