From the incredible mind of multi-award-winning Australian children's author Shirley Marr comes a story about memories, divorce, friendship, The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, David Bowie and time travel!
James is stuck in the present and it's the last place he wants to be. His parents have separated, he has to get used to living two different lives and neither of them add up to the one great life he used to have.
There are six clear memories he holds onto, and if he can go back in time to live in any of them, he'd be happy. It's during National Science Week - when he meets the enigmatic Yan, a girl who looks at the world with X-ray eyes - that James discovers that time travel might not be impossible after all. But are his memories really as perfect as he remembers them?
In a place where retro Australian Woman's Weekly birthday cakes, old Commodore computers, chaotic rideshare vehicles of the future and spacemen all collide, The Yesterday Machine is a contemporary science fiction novel touched with philosophical and existential ideas for young readers.
