num_pages: 192
description: When Max Kyle and Emma are sent to live with their reclusive grandfather they think hes crazy especially when he tells them about his time machine. But after Emma is kidnapped at the exact time that her grandfather predicted Max and Kyle are forced to believe his eccentric storieseven the one about the Chronal Engine in the basement. Now to save Emma Max Kyle and their new friend Petra must pile into a VW Bug and use the Chronal Engine to take the road trip of a lifetimeright back to the Cretaceous period. With dangers all around the teens find themselves dodging car-crushing herbivores in addition to the terrifying T. rex. In this ancient environment can three contemporary teens hunt down a kidnapper forage for food and survive long enough to return home? 
language: English
title: Chronal Engine: A Prehistoric Time-Travel Adventure
publisher: Clarion Books