The Infinite
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Publisher Description
'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman
'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo
'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah
FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME!
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she’s never used it. Until now.
On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time – and not everyone at the centre can be trusted.
Soon Elle’s adventure becomes more than a race through time. It’s a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it – before it ceases to exist . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British Nigerian Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè, who is autistic, is a Leapling: someone born on February 29. Now that's she's approaching her seventh year at Intercalary International—a top secret boarding school for the 0.6 % of Leaplings who have what Elle calls The Gift—she's finally allowed to use the time-travel ability she's cultivated at school to participate on a class trip to 2048. Once there, she'll tour Time Squad Headquarters, home to an elite team of time travelers responsible for maintaining order across all time. It's there that Elle and her math-savvy best friend Big Ben—who reads as white and is also autistic—learn that Leaplings have been disappearing across myriad timelines. Teaming up with a Leapling named Ama who's searching for her missing brother, Elle and Big Ben endeavor to piece together the clues and save the vanished Leaplings. Occasionally leaning on familiar tropes when developing the variously neurodivergent cast, debut author Agbabi nevertheless delivers a layered, time-bending adventure through Elle's astute and cheeky narration, intertwining a clever mystery with lightly ecologically focused problem-solving. Ages 9–11.
