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From: Nancegar at aol.com <Nancegar>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:48:39 EST
Nancy Bond's ANOTHER SHORE is a special favorite of mine (McElderry Books, 1988, 12 and up). The 17-year-old main character, Lynn Paget, who's spending the summer in Louisburg, Nova Scotia, with her photographer mother, who is taking pictures of the 18th century restoration of the port there. Lynn works as a waitress there. The restoration features costumned guides -- and suddenly Lynn finds herself thrust back in time to Louisberg as it was in 1744. Lynn finds herself to be Elisabeth Bernard, one of a large family of bakers. She tries desperately both to adjust to the difficulties of her new situation and to remember who she really is; her struggles and the details of life in those days are vivdly described. She discovers that there are a couple of other people in the community who have suffered the same fate as she -- and then she finds herself falling in love with a young man who is a bona fide 18th century person.
This book's pub date is a littlelonger ago than Amy stipulated, but it's such a wonderful evocation of period and place and illustrates the contrast between life then and life now so well -- and is such a poignant story -- that I think it's well worth including in any study of time travel.
Nancy Garden
__________________________________________ Please visit my website at www.nancygarden.com Number 8 of Budding Writers is up!
Received on Mon 05 Jan 2004 08:48:39 AM CST
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:48:39 EST
Nancy Bond's ANOTHER SHORE is a special favorite of mine (McElderry Books, 1988, 12 and up). The 17-year-old main character, Lynn Paget, who's spending the summer in Louisburg, Nova Scotia, with her photographer mother, who is taking pictures of the 18th century restoration of the port there. Lynn works as a waitress there. The restoration features costumned guides -- and suddenly Lynn finds herself thrust back in time to Louisberg as it was in 1744. Lynn finds herself to be Elisabeth Bernard, one of a large family of bakers. She tries desperately both to adjust to the difficulties of her new situation and to remember who she really is; her struggles and the details of life in those days are vivdly described. She discovers that there are a couple of other people in the community who have suffered the same fate as she -- and then she finds herself falling in love with a young man who is a bona fide 18th century person.
This book's pub date is a littlelonger ago than Amy stipulated, but it's such a wonderful evocation of period and place and illustrates the contrast between life then and life now so well -- and is such a poignant story -- that I think it's well worth including in any study of time travel.
Nancy Garden
__________________________________________ Please visit my website at www.nancygarden.com Number 8 of Budding Writers is up!
Received on Mon 05 Jan 2004 08:48:39 AM CST
