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Matt, Ben, Nicky and Kris are four friends living in the small town of Coolongawong in New South Wales. They have spent the last two years in Mr Mac's classroom where they discovered that they could have magical adventures back in time by tripping on a creaky floorboard and saying the magic words, discovering history as it was being made in exciting, and sometimes dangerous, adventures. They must now leave the magic classroom behind as they begin high school in Orange. Matt decides to invite his younger sister Olivia along on an adventure to the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska. This, in turn, leads to her introducing her friends Grace, Will and Jack to the magic. Together, these four meet famous heroes, are present at some of history's most crucial times and visit many new places together. They discover the Warsaw Ghetto, China's Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, the airship Hindenburg, the Incas, the Taj Mahal and Stonehenge, with many other people and places in between. Mr Mac's love of teaching history provides some of the destinations the four friends choose to visit. Others are the choice of the children.

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Dell Brand grew up in Sydney, attending North Sydney Girls High School and Sydney University. She taught in state high schools during her working life, teaching Physical and Health Education. She was recognised with the Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Achievement in Education Award from the Australian College of Education. She has always had a keen interest in children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours and worked for a number of years with a wilderness-enhanced program aimed at turning around young people's lives. This formed the basis of her PhD. In more recent years she developed a particular interest in family history and history in general. Dell was also a part-time journalist and was published by a number of editors both in Australia and abroad. She contributed regularly to four Australian magazines and frequently to newspapers where she used her own travel experiences to write first-hand of places she had seen and people she had met. Some of these places also found their way into this book. Dell loves the outdoors, especially the wilderness. In her younger years she was a keen swimmer and an A grade squash player. She now enjoys all outdoor pursuits and tries to play golf regularly. She is married with two grown-up children and five funtastic grandchildren. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales.

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