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Looking for title/author of time traveling book- possibly for children/young adults.?

3 siblings from California (?) time travel back to the late 1800s/early 1900s in Manhattan where they find themselves in a townhouseI know there was an elevator in the townhouseTowards the end of the book, the time traveling siblings saved the occupants of the townhouse when a blizzard knocked out the electricity and left them stranded in the elevator between floorsThanks!

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Voices After Midnight by Richard Peck Why is Chad so uneasy when his California family rents a town house in New York City? Once there he hears voices-late at night, after midnight in this strange house that's at least one hundred years oldThen he finds that his younger brother, Luke, hears them, too, and even their older sister Heidi's afraid to stay in the house aloneAs Chad and Luke explore the house, they begin to slip in and out of their own time, back to the winter of 1888Are the voices they hear crying out for help? Will Chad ignore the voices or plunge into the unknown danger of one handred years before?
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