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In this children’s fantasy adventure, Denzil, an apprentice of a medieval wizard, has already learned to jump forward in time to the modern world in the previous book, *The Wednesday Wizard*. Now he returns home and uses a spell from the wizard’s book to pull his friend Samantha back through the ages. But the spell cannot be reversed, leaving Denzil to grapple with the consequences and find a solution before the time warp threatens their lives.
First publish date: December 1996
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Sherryl Jordan
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