TY - BOOK AU - Pearson, Kit, TI - A Handful of Time SN - 9780143056386 U1 - F PEA PY - 2007///, c1987 CY - Toronto PB - Puffin KW - Time travel KW - Fiction KW - Vacations KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - FICTION / Historical / Canada KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary N1 - Originally published: Markham, Ont. : Viking, 1987; Middle grade N2 - When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends. When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases her; Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in. Then Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. When she winds it, she finds herself taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve ER -