Charlotte Sometimes - Softcover

Farmer, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140360840 ISBN 13: 9780140360844

Publisher: Puffin, 1993

Synopsis

Charlotte goes off to boarding school and suffers from all the confusion and shyness of a new girl. At first she thinks this is why she has difficulty in remembering names and faces. But then she realizes that something odd has happened: she's slipped back to 1919 and become a girl called Clare.

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Review:

"An intriguing fantasy." -- The Horn Book

"[Charlotte Sometimes] has all the pleasures of a good time-travel yarn...Adolescence is all about forging an identity, and this novel speaks to those questions of 'who am I?' and 'how do other people see me?' in an abstract, haunting way...For those of you with middle-grade children, I recommend Charlotte Sometimes wholeheartedly, and for those of you who may have read it as a child, I recommend returning to it, if only because rereading is one of the only forms of time travel available to us." --Hannah Gersen, The Millions
..".[A] book of quite exceptional distinction...the author has built a haunting, convincing story which comes close to being a masterpiece of its kind...not easily forgotten." --Christian Science Monitor

"Farmer writes with style. She is vivid in her depiction of place: on almost every page, scattered with colorful figures of speech, we are drawn into the school and the surroundings of the school through sights and sounds and smells and textures...above all we are moved by the depth and poignancy of the relationship between Charlotte and Emily." --Eleanor Cameron

"[Charlotte Sometimes] has all the pleasures of a good time-travel yarn...Adolescence is all about forging an identity, and this novel speaks to those questions of 'who am I?' and 'how do other people see me?' in an abstract, haunting way...For those of you with middle-grade children, I recommend Charlotte Sometimes wholeheartedly, and for those of you who may have read it as a child, I recommend returning to it, if only because rereading is one of the only forms of time travel available to us." --Hannah Gersen, The Millions

"An intriguing fantasy." -- The Horn Book

..".[A] book of quite exceptional distinction...the author has built a haunting, convincing story which comes close to being a masterpiece of its kind...not easily forgotten." --Christian Science Monitor

"Farmer writes with style. She is vivid in her depiction of place: on almost every page, scattered with colorful figures of speech, we are drawn into the school and the surroundings of the school through sights and sounds and smells and textures...above all we are moved by the depth and poignancy of the relationship between Charlotte and Emily." --Eleanor Cameron

Book Description:

On Charlotte's first night at boarding school, she somehow slips back forty years!

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140360840
• ISBN 13: 9780140360844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208