SOLVED. Middle Grade Time Travel chapter book about a girl who is transported back in time to a primitive forest. [s]

[Cheryl]

This book was published in the 1970’s or 1980’s. The main character is a girl who somehow accidentally goes back in time (possibly after an argument with her parent). She finds herself in a forest with nothing but the clothes on her back and a few objects in her pocket, two of which include a key and a pocketknife. She meets another child/ children in the forest who do not speak her language. She tries to communicate with them, teaching them her name and the names of the objects in her pocket, and trying to explain the objects in her pocket to them (they have never seen things like this before and do not know what they are). The girl lives with these people for a time but eventually wants to go back home to her own time period. She finally gets back to her own time period and it is as if no time at all has passed. She and her parent make up after the argument. I thought the name of the book was something like “Saturday the Fourteenth” but when I looked it up there was nothing by that title.

[David]

You were pretty close with the title, I think.

Likely it is Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer.

A review: "Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe is or why Zan was taken to them. All we know is that her transportation takes place in public when she is emotionally distraught ~ she spends quite a few months with this tribe and is magically transported back to her real life in another moment of emotional turmoil. When she returns, she discovers that she has actually only been gone a day."

[Cheryl]

That is it!!! Thank you!!