The Infinite
Patience Agbabi
Subjects
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
- Fantasy Worlds - awesome adventures of magic and mystery
'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman 'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo 'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME! Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other 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 . . .
Reviews
I really wanted to like this book and I thought it was a great concept but I found it hard to read in places and the storyline didn't work.
RuthSettle7
This was one of my favourite summer reads. I was immediately taken into this world. I connected with the main characters and I found the premise of ‘time travel’ really interesting even though this wasn’t something I would usually find of interest. I didn’t want it to end.
Miss Charles
Lovely concept. Really liked the time traveling element. I was rreally interestedthat the main character was autistic. I thought the autism seemed very present in the first part of the book but it was mentioned and referred to less and less through the later part of the story and I couldn’t decide why this may be
sd5ad
I thought this was such an original and interesting story. There are so many elements that would generate great discussions, such as Elle's observations and thinking on the world, Elle's culture, friendships, and sustainability - let alone all the time-traveling! I feel that sustainability is an incredibly important topic to be discussed with children and so this book would be a fantastic way into those discussions. I would definitely like to read this book with an UKS2 class in the future and I would highly recommend it to other teachers!
MegM2710
This was a really imaginative and original book. It was refreshing to have a main character who was female, black and autistic. The pace of the book is hectic, and sometimes feels a little rushEd, due to the complexity of the story that Agbabi has created. It is surely crying out for a sequel. I would recommend this book for Upper Key Stage 2.
MrsMOwls
I loved this! Elle is the most original female protagonist I’ve met for a long time. I’m looking forward to sharing this with Year 6.
ElizaGomez
This book was very intriguing and fast paced. There is a theme of secrecy throughout the story which creates that ‘must read more’ feeling. The characters are all so different and, at times, hard to keep up with. It may just be a coincidence that this book is about TIME and needs the reader to devote a lot of time and concentration in order to follow the characters and understand the story. A good read for upper key stage 2 pupils.
KLambert