An enjoyable time travel adventure about four friends who find themselves back in 1918. This is a great story for children to help them understand what life was like during WWI, using the school as a link. Perfect if studying as a topic in primary school - it's short and easy to read. My year 6 class loved it.

After a power cut in the middle of the night, friends Jess, Nadia, Tomma, and Ash are all running late for school. They live in a little village and travel to school via the train which leaves at exactly 8am. The friends just make their train by jumping into the last carriage. Not long into the journey, they start to notice strange things, such as how old the coach they are in looks and also that the train is a steam train, not the usual electric train. Upon arrival at their stop, the friends jump out and realise that the journey has taken longer than normal. In a rush to get to school they don’t notice the old fashioned cars, outfits the people are wearing, nor the cobbled streets. However, all that changes when they arrive at the school. It quickly becomes apparent that they have travel back in time to 1918 and the days just before the end of WWI. How will the four friends cope in this time period and can they return to their own time? Time School is the first in what I hope is going to be a series following the four friends, if not, it certainly should be. The book reads like an Enid Blyton novel. It is about a group of friends having an adventure and trying to work out why they have been sent back in time. The book touches on subjects such as schooling, rationing, women going to work whilst the men were fighting in the war and the loss of life by young men fighting too. It doesn’t go into any great detail on any of these subjects, but I presume this is because of the age the book is aimed at. It is just over 100 pages long so won’t take a child too long to get through it. This is a fun, clean children’s mystery/adventure book. There is also a surprising, yet happy ending too.