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Time Travel

Hour of the Olympics

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  • 1986 first published
  • 80 pages
  • ★ 4.5 (4 ratings)
  • 28 editions
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Hour of the Olympics is a 1986 time-travel fiction novella by Mary Pope Osborne. The story is set in Greece and Griechenland, in Altertum. Readers will find themes of olympic games, magic, sex role and tree houses.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 23 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 28 editions across 6 languages.

It runs to roughly 80 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.

About Hour of the Olympics

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

  • Altertum

Subjects

  • Olympic games
  • Magic
  • Sex role
  • Tree houses
  • Olympics
  • Time travel
  • Greece
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Rol sexual
  • Magia
  • Viaje a través del tiempo
  • Ficción juvenil
  • Cabañas en las árboles
  • Olimpiadas
  • Jack, Fictitious character : Osborne

Quick answers

Who wrote Hour of the Olympics?

Hour of the Olympics was written by Mary Pope Osborne and first published in 1986.

What genre is Hour of the Olympics?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is Hour of the Olympics?

The median edition has 80 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Hour of the Olympics?

Readers who like it often enjoy Test of the Twins, Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3).

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