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| Author | Gary Paulsen |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | World of Adventure |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | August 11, 1997 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 96 pp |
| ISBN | 0-440-41214-5 |
| OCLC | 37517635 |
| Preceded by | The Creature of Black Water Lake |
| Followed by | Grizzly |
Time Benders is the fourteenth novel in World of Adventure series by Gary Paulsen. The novel was published on August 11, 1997 by Random House.
The story is about Zack Griffin and Jeff Brown who both win trips to a famous science laboratory. There they discover that one of the machines in the lab can "bend" time, and they end up in ancient Egypt.
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