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Jump Man : Rule 2 Don't Even Think About it by James Valentine
01/12/2006 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Random House/Children's Books/Corgi. 281 page enlarged paperback. Price: £ 5.99 (UK). ISBN: 0-552-55059-0. Buy Jump Man : Rule 2 Don't Even Think About it in the USA - or Buy Jump Man : Rule 2 Don't Even Think About it in the UK  check out website: www.randomhouse.co.uk
When you get to a certain point in time there is more history behind you than future in front of you. How tempting it would be to visit that history even at the risk of changing something fundamental.
Jules and Gen are just getting over their previous experience of time travel and having been grounded for three months, they are finally allowed out together. Despite nervousness, Jules thinks he and Gen are feeling that lurve chemistry when he is stopped at her lips. The reappearance of Franklin, a grubby and smelly time jumper, is not welcome. They are off again, something about saving the future and hopefully it won't send Gen's mum around the twist like before.
Time travel is tricky how to deal with it. Do you come back before you leave or do you use real time? There are now so many stories about time travel it might be time to go back and erase a few from history. Seriously though, this subject is beset with problems but continues to be the focus and obsession of many writers since HG Wells first wound up his time machine.
For a young person's novel, James Valentine has produced just the right amount of complexity and intrigue to get their love of SF off to a good start. Characters are suitable for the age group with lots of reverences to history they will either know about or be interested in. It is pretty standard stuff in the end but you need to be populist when it comes to time travel otherwise no one would solve the puzzles or be interested in the outcome.
'Jump Man' has all the right ingredients a dysfunctional family, boy/girl problems, catty girlfriends and megalomaniac world-dominating super villain type. It's all good. James Valentine, Australian, has produced an excellent story suitable for the kids and me.
Sue Davies
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