Mazemaker [Library Binding]

Catherine Dexter (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up

Playing in a maze, twelve-year-old Winnie is hurled back in time and marooned on a nineteenth-century estate until she can solve the maze and return to the present.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Winnie and her friend Harry have only the city schoolyard to hang out in, with its broken glass and graffiti-covered walls. But one day a cat they've found runs through a spray-painted maze they discover--and disappears. Winnie, too, runs the maze, which transports her through time to 1889, and delivers her into the hands of a deranged woman, Mrs. Minot, who is determined to use the maze's power for herself. Winnie learns of others who have disappeared; if she is to find her own way home, she must prevent Mrs. Minot from altering time. While not as chilling as Dexter's Oracle Doll , Mazemaker is still riveting, with likable characters in Winnie, Harry and Lily. The ending, if plausible, is a little too easy, but overall the book is a worthwhile read. Ages 10-14.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-8-- When Winnie finds a large, intricate maze spray-painted on a deserted playground, she can't resist trying to negotiate it. As she triumphantly reaches the center, she finds herself transported 100 years into the past, but on the same spot--in the center of an overgrown but still discernible hedge maze. She is given shelter by a young girl and her aunt who believe that Winnie is the victim of a terrible accident which has left her with amnesia. They warn her to stay out of the abandoned and dangerous hedge maze--people have been known to disappear in it. Winnie knows that the only way to return to her own home is through the maze, but she is being constantly watched by the strange and unfriendly housekeeper, who believes that Winnie is a mazemaker and knows the secret of the last turn. While Mazemaker isn't one of the best time-travel fantasies ever written, it does have a good puzzle as its base and should satisfy readers looking for some light fare. --Susan M. Harding, Mesquite Public Library, Tex.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 202 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co (May 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688073832
• ISBN-13: 978-0688073831
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,616,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book!, February 22, 2000

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Lisa P. (Ponca City, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mazemaker (Library Binding)

I love this book. It has timetravel and mazes. If you like science, mazes or going back in time, you'll love this book. Winnie and her friend Harry find a maze spray-painted on the blacktop of a school. Later they see a cat they call Tab, walk to the center of the maze and vanish. It is mysterious and wierd. In the end they...

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, March 1, 2005

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Alyssa Archambo (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mazemaker (Library Binding)

It is a wonderful book full of adventure and excitement. When Winnie enters the 19th century, she has enough problems, but of course she has to deal with so much more other than being stuck in a different century. I highly recommend it for all science-fiction readers.