A Handful of Time is a Canadian classic. I believe it is old enough I can use the word classic. It’s a quick and easy read but there is no maximum age for this novel.
When twelve year old Patricia starts to watch her parent go through divorce she’s sent to spend the summer at a lake in Western Canada with her cousins. Patricia doesn’t want to be there and she doesn’t fit in. She feels lonely, isolated and extremely mundane. Her cousins tease her, she’s left out and all she really wants is to go h More...

I think I read this book back in middle school but I have never forgotten it. I not a huge fan of realistic fiction but this paints a good picture of what child goes through when their parents separate.

Patricia's world is turned upside down when her parents separate they send her to her cousins where she find a watch under the loose floorboards. Once she winds the watch she finds herself transported back in time to when mother was her age.

The book made me to see my mother as she grew up and lik More...

Patricia’s famous parents are separating, pending divorce, and they send her to visit her relatives in Western Canada for the holidays. Patricia simply doesn’t fit in with her rough and tumble cousins. In an old deserted cottage she finds, hidden under a loose floorboard, an old-fashioned fob watch which takes her back to the past—and enables her an insight into her mother’s childhood. She finds herself drawn to the girl her mother used to be. A deeply satisfying book which gently probes many co More...

I loved this book as a kid. At the start of every summer, when I slip into sandals and/or start going barefoot for the first time, I think of Patricia, and how her feet weren't callused like her cousins' feet and they looked down on her for her pale, city feet.
Its a lovely YA story with some good time travel that evokes a nostalgia for summer and cottaging in a way I can't quite describe.

This was a great little YA award book that I just happened to pick up. I really enjoyed reading it, and I appreciated the message it gave me. One of them is that people can change, and people can learn to accept, and work together. Things will get better. Good things may happen in the end. Things will all work out. I would read this book again in a heart beat.

A great book for ten to twelve year-old girls, even better when read along with their mothers.

The plot centres around the plight of twelve-year-old Patricia who is sent out West to spend the summer with her cousins while her parents remain behind in Toronto to iron out the details of their divorce. Patricia is doubly unsettled, as not only is her family falling apart but she finds herself in an awkward setting: unable to relate to the cousins she has just met and unprepared for a summer spent at More...

Started our book club out with this book. We spent the first year looking for books mainly that dealt with realtionships. This was gret because she travels back to when her mom was a teenager and then goes forward to their relationship currently. The topics brought about great discussion on "yes mom was a teenager like you"

This book was pretty good. More for pre-teen girls. Patricia who was sent to her aunt's house for the summer finds an old time piece and can time travel back to when her mother was her age. She comes to understand her mother's decisions and how hard it was for her mom growing up.

Brittney says: "This book was one of my all-time favourites growing up and I have re-read it numerous times. It delivers a good message to young adult readers (specifically young girls) about how your parents are a lot more like you than you realize."

What a good book! I found myself in tears while reading the last two chapters. There is amazing character development and it's one of those books that gets you thinking- what would I do in this situation? It moved at a great pace and never seemed to drag on to me.

This was for sure a book from my childhood. I revisited it today, took about three hours to blast through and it was a good story, one that might just spark the imagination of a 12 year old.

There are some books that one can read and enjoy for a lifetime. I remember receiving this book for my tenth birthday. I read it and loved it and read it again. I have read it at least a dozen times over the years. I never get tired of it. I used to have nightmares once in a while and I would have this book beside my bed, open to a random page and start reading until I felt better. It is one of my great comforts in life. This is the only book on my large set of shelves that looks like it has bee More...

One of my favorite books. I read it the first time when I was 15 and I pick it up and read it probably once a year since.

The importance of the J-stroke is greatly exaggerated in this book. I've lived my whole canoeing life without mastering it.

I read this book every summer from the age of 12-21. Read it if you can find it anywhere. It's lovely.

This is my all time favourite book! I read it as a kid and it won me over from the beginning.

I remember loving this book when I was younger. I'd completely forgotten about it.

((description from text:12 year old girls finds a watch that transports her back to when her mother was her age.11-13. time slip))

I really liked this book I thought it was awesome I would so read it aigian

My fav book as a kid, well, at least up there with Anne. Must read again.

I read this book over...and over...and over. Loved it as a child.

I enjoyed the book. It was a nice, quick, light read.

awesome book, twists and turns. well written.

My first favorite book as a kid!

I read this in Grade 4 and loved it to pieces.

Emily said to read this!
I hope its great :D

I read this in one sitting and for hours after I finished it, kept catching myself thinking "wonder what's going to happen next... oh, right, I already finished that".

Time-travel aficionados will miss the usual time-travel trappings... not really any discussion of "how" or "why", no fears about being trapped in one time or another, and the traveler being invisible neatly lets her out of several of the standard problems. This is definitely a mother-daughter book--the actual time travel is practic More...

Time travel + mother daughter issues + bildungsroman = one of my favourite books when I was a kid and the quality of the story has not diminished as I've gotten older.

I loved this book as a kid!