She also wanted to protect her daughter from the machinations of the secret society that governs the mysterious device that controls time travel for those few who are doomed to travel through time. Why unknowingly? Gwyneth’s mother wanted to give her a normal childhood-although the family is far from normal. Set in modern-day London, Ruby Red is the tale of Gwyneth Shepherd, who unknowingly carries the rare family gene for time traveling. This wonderful coming-of-age story by German author Kerstin Gier, translated by the inestimable Anthea Bell, was deservedly chosen for the American Library Association’s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list. While this may sound like a mashed-up, genre-bending smorgasbord of a book lost in an endless search for identity, Ruby Red is anything but. Then have I got a fabulous novel-in-translation for you… Like YA fantasy filled with fencing, derring-do and a dash of romance? Historical fiction replete with counts and conspiracies? Urban paranormal novels about time traveling?
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