Divide and Conquer
- by Carrie Ryan
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Divide and Conquer by Carrie Ryan (Scholastic, November 2012).
Still searching for their parents in time, young Sera, Riq, and Dak must also navigate the battles between the Franks and Vikings in 9th-century France. Oh, and figure out what no-good things the evil SQ are up to in the area.
—Michael Main
It was the tightening of time and space around her as she moved from one era to another. And it should have brought her, Dak, and Riq to 885.
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): AD 885, Paris
- Circa AD 1700 to 1799: briefly, at the start
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: briefly, as British soldiers storm the White House during the War of 1812
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed home time of the travelers
- Timeline Models
- Multiple Naive Timelines
- Remembering Other Timelines: the Remnants
- Time Travel Methods
- Pocket Time Machine: the Infinity Ring
- Themes
- Caution! Do Not Destroy Spacetime Continuum!: [. . .] we can’t go to the same time or place twice or we could end up triggering the Cataclysm ourselves.
- Changewars: the Hystorians vs the SQ and their time wardens
- Fix History!: In AD 885 and 911, the kids’ task in the changewar is to stop the Viking Siegfried from amassing power in Normandy.
- Language Difficulties: the ear-implant translator.
- Time Corps: the Hystorians
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Dystopian World: the SQ and global catastrophes
- Groupings
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- Divide and Conquer by Carrie Ryan (Scholastic, November 2012).
- audio reading.Divide and Conquer by Carrie Ryan (Scholastic Audio, November 2012).