The Woven Path is the first book in the Tales from the Wyrd Museum series by Robin Jarvis

Robin Jarvis

Robin Jarvis is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times...

. It was originally published in 1995.

Synopsis

When Neil Chapman, son of the new caretaker of the Wyrd Museum (a strange building owned by the three mysterious Webster sisters) enters the secret room that holds the 'Separate Collection,' he is unwittingly whisked back in time to World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 London

London

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 with a teddy bear

Teddy bear

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 possessed by the spirit of an American

United States

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 airman

Airman

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who wants to change the past and save the lives of those dear to him.