The Root Cellar
First edition | |
| Author | Janet Lunn |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's historical fiction novel |
| Publisher | Lester and Orpen Dennys |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 247 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-919630-78-2 |
| OCLC | 8982625 |
| Followed by | Shadow in Hawthorn Bay |
The Root Cellar is a children's historical novel by Janet Lunn that is set in the 1980s, although much of the action takes place in the 1860s. It follows Rose Larkin, an orphan, who travels temporally back and forth between Ontario, Canada, of the 1980s and various settings of U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. This time travel is done through the root cellar of the title.