Breaking news!

Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) will publish The Chronal Engine: Ahead of Time by Greg Leitich Smith (2012). Greg describes the book as a “mystery-adventure, time-travel novel.”

From Publishers Marketplace, “Using their reclusive grandfather’s time machine, a trio of contemporary teens travel to the Age of the Dinosaurs to solve a family mystery and rescue their sister…”

Cynsational Notes

Congratulations, Greg! I know better than anyone the extraordinary research and storytelling that has gone into this novel. I can hardly wait until it’s time to share it with young readers!

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