Novel
The Infinite
- by Patience Agbabi
- (Canongate, April 2020)
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings, such as Elle Bibi-Imbele, with the ability to leap through time. But now Leaplings are disappearing in time, and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle's adventure becomes more than a race through time. It's a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it—before it ceases to exist. —based on publicity material
And I’m going on a school trip to 2048! We’ll be staying at the Time Squad Centre. Only four pupils from my class were chosen. They sent secret letters to our parents six weeks ago and I had to read mine out to Grandma because she can’t read or write but still puts on her glasses like she can. I was so excited and scared, I almost went tongue-tied. My favorite line from the letter was: “Elle has been chosen for this trip because she score the highest for Effort in Past, Present and Future for the whole of Seventh Year.”
