Charlotte Sometimes
A Young Adult, Time Travel, Childrens book. Even her footsteps did not seem to belong to her. The night seized and transformed them, just as it...
'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?’Charlotte Makepeace’s first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the routine – and each other. No one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispers and giggles.But on Charlotte’s very first night something mysterious starts to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school. But something has changed. Somehow Charlotte has slipped forty years back in time...Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can learn what life was like during the First World WarVintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780099582526 / 0
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Even her footsteps did not seem to belong to her. The night seized and transformed them, just as it transformed the greenhouses they passed from useful places for growing things into cold night palaces. Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes // Charlotte was used to all the marks of war: the shabbiness of things, bad food, shop queues, posters about the war effort, people with worried faces, people dressed in black. She was used to seeing the wounded men from the hospital with their bright blue uniforms and bright red ties, the colours, she thought, if not the clothes of Arthur's soldiers. Such things did not disturb her, and the war seemed quite remote. But this disturbed her, the grotesque kind of circus that came now. It did not seem remote at all, nor did it fit with her vague ideas of... Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less. Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes //
Readers who enjoy time travel, school stories, philosophical ideas Really far out experience to read this; it combines time travel with childhood imagination to create an unforgettable story of life in the first world war. This book is about more than it seems to be. It's about time travel, I suppose, though really that's only incidental. It's about self-knowledge for Charlotte, and how she gets a little braver and more distinct in how she differs from Clare. It's also about all the other characters and how they change throughout the book, though we only...
