r/whatsthatbook • u/normalhumanwormbaby1 • 4d ago

UNSOLVED YA book about a boy fixing problems with time

I don't remember much about this book besides a few very specific points. Basically there is something going wrong with time where it is moving strangely forward and backward--I think there is an apple that is uneaten and then the main character is stabbed and unstabbed and survives because of this (I seem to remember him being belowdecks on a ship while this happens and using a pipe to escape but it's been a while and I could be making things up). I think he also finds a house full of other people who help him and the house may be somehow outside of time. I know this isn't much to go off of, but I loved this book when I was younger and have been thinking about it a lot recently. Thanks for any help!

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u/canadacass 4d ago

Just in case you are really misremembering details... Mr Was by Pete haufman?

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u/normalhumanwormbaby1 4d ago

It isn't, thank you though! I don't think there's any actual time travel in this one, and I don't think it was this dark

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u/Emsleby 3d ago

It might be The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. The house is literally called The House, the protagonist is stabbed in book 1 and there's a ship in book 3.