Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection) - Hardcover

Farmer, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590172213 ISBN 13: 9781590172216

Publisher: New York Review of Books, 2007

Synopsis

A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.

It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she's baffled: everyone thinks she's a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare's. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she's slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn't figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.

About this title

Review:

"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

A "haunting fantasy." --Publishers Weekly

"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

"This year's most haunting fantasy."--The Sunday Times

"Farmer is always gifted in her grasp of possibilities that bring us up short with surprise and delight and satisfaction."--Eleanor Cameron

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1590172213
• ISBN 13: 9781590172216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 189
• Illustrator: Connor Chris