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A Chance Child by Jill Paton Walsh

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4.0

I read this as a kid and it was one of those weird books that always stuck with me. I couldn't remember the title or author or anything but that it had a boy travelling on a boat and he'd gone back in time or something. I finally asked about it on a book-finding community a few years ago and found it again (and then it sat on my shelf unread until something reminded me of it again recently).

Rereading it as an adult, it's still pretty weird, especially the first few chapters when you're just thrown right in and have no idea what's going on. But it makes more sense now, as I think a lot of it went over my head when I first read it. It's a good story and I'm glad I had a chance to read it again.
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