Miri and Molly 2

Magic in the Mix

by Annie Barrows

• Release: December 2007
• Format: Novel
• Genre: Fantasy
• Audience: Children
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Molly, that’s totally crazy. You can’t stop yourself from existing because you do exist, you have to exist.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to Turkish

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1800 to 1899: AD 1864
• Circa AD 1900 to 1929: AD 1918
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: AD 2014, 150 years after 1864

Timeline Models

• Remembering Different Timelines: Miri and Molly remember their previous lives before the first book.

Time Travel Methods

• Magic Time Travel
• Time Portal: The glasses are no longer needed for time travel. Instead, doorways and other openings in the house are time portals.

Themes

• Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Molly meets her parents in 1918.

Real-World Tags

• American Civil War: 1864 Virginia
• Battle of Cedar Creek
• Colonel John S. Mosby

Groupings

• Miri and Molly (story series)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the Gill family house, AD 2014 ⋙ to the same house, AD 1918. Round trip. Note: Miri, Molly, and Cookie.
2. From the Gill family house, AD 2014 ⋙ to the same house, Fall 1864. Round trip. Note: Miri and Molly’s first trip to the Battle of Cedar Creek.
3. From the Gill family house, AD 2014 ⋙ to the same house, Fall 1864. Note: Brothers travel by accident; Miri and Molly follow.
4. From the Gill family house, Fall 1864 ⋙ to the same house, AD 2014. Note: Only Miri and Molly return!
5. From the Gill family house, AD 2014 ⋙ to the same house, AD 1918. Note: Miri, Molly, and Cookie.
6. From the Gill family house, AD 1918 ⋙ to the same house, AD 2014. Note: Miri and Molly come back with the safe passage letter, but Cookie stays behind for now.
7. From the Gill family house, AD 2014 ⋙ to the same house, Fall 1864. Note: Miri and Molly’s return to the Civil War.
8. From the Gill family house, Fall 1864 ⋙ to an unspecified time at an unknown time. Note: Carter falls into the time pit.
9. From the Gill family house, Fall 1864 ⋙ to the same house, AD 2014. Note: All four return.
10. From the Gill family house, AD 1918 ⋙ to the same house, AD 2014. Note: Cookie makes at least one round trip on his own in the book, and presumably many more later.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

• Audio Debut—The <samp>September 2014[d/] date comes from <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook%2Fshow%2F22514964-magic-in-the-mix'>Goodreads</a> and the end of the audio CD.</samp>