Thief!

You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm . . . The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew. You don't even recognise your hometown. And you're heading for a confrontation from your worst nightmare. What if you could change the past to save the future? Lydia's family has just moved from London to the north of England, and she is bullied and falsely accused of theft at her new school. Then she is caught in a freak storm on the moors which sweeps her 37 years into the future. Her town has become a dystopia, under the rule of a cruel dictator. In order to change the future, she must confront her own past, or she can never go home again. Suggested level: primary, intermediate An extraordinary storm suddenly whirls twelve-year-old Lydia into the future - a computer dominated future where her home town is now ruled by a cruel tyrant.