Hour of the Olympics
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, December 1998).
Jack and Annie meet Plato and learn about the treatment of women in ancient Greece, while also rescuing a fourth lost book from history for Morgan’s library
—Michael Main
At that moment, Plato returned. With him was a young woman dressed in a long tunic with a colored border. She was holding a scroll.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454)
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Relativistic Time Dilation: the Olympics
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
(3)
- Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, December 1998).
- audio reading.Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne, in Magic Treehouse Collection, Books 9–16, Listening Library, October 2003.
- alternative title.Olympic Challenge! by Mary Pope Osborne (Red Fox, January 2010).