LIZ KESSLER
is the author of the best-selling series about Emily Windsnap, as well as the Philippa Fisher books. She decided she wanted to be a writer at the age of nine, when her first poem was published in the local newspaper. She has also worked as a teacher and a journalist. Liz Kessler lives in Cornwall, England.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2011 by Liz Kessler
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First published in Great Britain by Orion Children’s Books, a division of the Orion Publishing Group
First U.S. electronic edition 2011
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows:
Kessler, Liz.
A year without Autumn / Liz Kessler. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jenni’s much-anticipated vacation with her family and best friend Autumn goes awry when an old elevator transports her to a future in which everything has changed, and she must not only return to her time but find a way to prevent what she has seen from coming true.
ISBN 978-0-7636-5595-2 (hardcover)
[1. Time travel — Fiction. 2. Best friends — Fiction. 3. Friendship — Fiction. 4. Family life — England — Fiction. 5. Vacations — Fiction. 6. England — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.K4842Ye 2011
[Fic] — dc22 2010045957
ISBN 978-07637-5608-9 (electronic)
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