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Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl–the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom. Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, whilst trying to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble. Her life is quite boring until weird things begin to happen to her.

When visiting a public house in the English village of Ombersley with her parents and brother, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time to 1651 during the reign of King Charles II and his escape after the battle of Worcester. How will she and her brother survive in these troubling times for the English Monarchy during the rise of Cromwell's army?

Arabella’s life was very boring until strange things began to happen to her. She found herself transported back in time into her homework. It happened when she was learning about The Celts. How does the Celtic festival of Samhain link with Hallowe’en? How did Arabella and Tom escape punishment when they broke the rules? How did they manage to get home?

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is out eating pizza and then suddenly she finds herself with her brother, Tom, in the middle of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of St. John showed great courage and fortitude in fighting off an invasion from the Turkish Empire. Will they join Grandmaster Valette in battle?

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is caravaning with her family in Whitby, England and visits the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, when suddenly she and her brother find themselves actually on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and his eighty seafaring crew, on the open seas sailing to Tahiti. Will they every make it back from this perilous journey, especially when the ship hits a reef and takes on water?

Arabella Twigg is studying history at school and her homework is to find out all she can about King George the Third. So she and Tom go to the local library, but as soon as they get inside, they find themselves in the King’s palace. Arabella and Tom are presented to the King and Queen and meet some of the children. However, the King is doing odd things and people are wondering if he is mad?

Life was quite boring for Arabella until odd things began to happen to her. Her mother suggested a day out to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace, because they were both studying Shakespeare plays at school. Suddenly, Arabella and Tom were transported back in time and met William Shakespeare himself when visiting the old Globe Theatre. They had no idea how that happened or how they would get back home.

Arabella folds her school uniform and places it on the chair one evening, then puts on her dressing-gown and returns to the bathroom. The room is full of steam and as the steam clears, suddenly she is standing on the side of a Roman Bath. There she meets two young girls from Pompeii who tell her all about the city just before Vesuvius erupts.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in an extremely peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her peculiar family. Her life is quite boring–until strange things begin happening to her.

Arriving at school, she notices that something is very different as she walks into her classroom. She is standing in a Victorian schoolroom, just like the ones in her history textbook. Arabella discovers that the discipline in Victorian times is very different than it is today.

One minute, she is home with her family, and the next, Arabella and Tom find themselves sailing in a fleet with Christopher Columbus, exploring the Americas. When the ship they are on runs aground and begins to sink, will they be able to escape?

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, but tries to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble.

One day, when Arabella looks for some clothes in the cupboard under the stairs, she finds Stuart Whynniard in hiding, who tells her that his father's house is rented out to a group of Englishmen who are planning to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The lead conspirator is Guido (Guy) Fawkes, who has the dangerous job of lighting the fuses to the gunpowder.

Arabella is cooking with her Gran one day when she opens the pantry door and is suddenly standing in a huge, old kitchen. Across the room is an open fire where a full pig is roasting on an old-fashioned spit. There she meets a kitchen boy who is preparing a big banquet for King Henry VIII and his guests.