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The Time Travelers' Academy

by Namu Marupudi

Ages 5–10 ~6 min read-aloud

A picture book exploring Life Skills, Adventure, Learning.

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What’s inside

Page count

8 pages

Age range

Ages 5–10

Read-aloud time

~6 min

Values taught

Every skill you learn is a crystal that lights the way home — and challenges are best solved together, one lesson at a time.

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Amazing Me — Volume 4: Stories 46–60

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About this story

On a rainy afternoon, best friends Juli, Maya, Alex, and Daniel explore Juli's dusty attic and find something amazing behind a stack of old books: a magnificent golden clock whose face shows pictures instead of numbers — a heart, a book, numbers, a globe, a running figure, and a paintbrush. The moment Alex touches it, the symbols spin, a swirling portal opens, and the friends are pulled into the Time Travelers' Academy — a grand hall of floating books, spinning globes, and shimmering crystals. To find their way home, they must collect six special crystals by learning six important skills, traveling through history to do it: sharing one basket of bread fairly in an ancient village earns the pink Crystal of Kindness; retelling a dragon-and-princess tale for a castle knight earns the blue Crystal of Language; solving pattern puzzles up the steps of a golden desert pyramid earns the green Crystal of Numbers — and the workshop of Renaissance wonders awaits. A chapter-style learning adventure where every stop in time teaches something to bring home.

  • Portal — a magical doorway to another place or time
  • Academy — a special school for learning
  • Crystal — a glowing gem, one for each skill
  • Riddle — a puzzle asked as a tricky question
  • Pyramid — a giant pointed monument in the desert
  • Pattern — something that repeats in order, like multiples of three
  • Invention — something new someone builds, like the workshop's flying machines
  • Portion — a fair share, like each family's piece of the bread

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Reviews

5.0· 2 reviews
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Lena F.
Sep 21, 2026
Time travel done right for kids

Finally a time-travel story that isn't confusing or scary. Each 'jump' is short and vivid. My 9-year-old now wants to learn about every historical period they visited.

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Carlos D.
Sep 21, 2026
Read it three times this week

My son is normally a reluctant reader and he's asked for this one repeatedly. The academy concept makes him feel like he's part of a club. Can't wait for a sequel.

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