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Summary: one of the best books i've ever read!!!
Review: alright, like some others here, this book was brought to my attention by robert smith of the cure... and i can't thank him enough!!! this is truly one of the best books i've ever read...charlotte's time travel through her bed in a boarding school is one of the most unique ideas i've seen in literature, and farmer's adding of the shared diary is pure genius... charlotte and every other character in the book were more alive to me than most any character in books i've read... a very emotional book built from a wonderful imagination!!!i couldn't put the book down and have passed it on to numerous friends to read since finishing it (anyone who is looking for a copy, i got mine from truprice books: truprice@aol.com... don't know that they've got another copy lying around, but it's worth a try!)read this book!!! you will not be sorry you did!
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Summary: Was my favorite, and still is my favorite!
Review: Charlotte Sometimes is still one of my favorite books! About 3 years ago I narrowed it down to two books, Chatlotte Sometimes and Jacob Have I loved, now I have about 8 new favorites, but they can't knock the old ones out. After years they're still number one, and number two. Charlotte Somtimes takes place in a bording school in the 60s, Charlotte trades places with a girl from world war I. It's one of the few YA books that cover that part of history. I never knew ther were sequels until now! thank you to whoever posted that information.
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Summary: Memorable fantasy for all dreamers!
Review: Charlotte Sometimes, the fantasy novel for history buffs. Set in two separate time periods, the reader follows Charlotte's struggle between herself and the girl from World War I she changes places with. Penelope Farmer creates memorable characters and delves into every young girls fantasy to be someone she's not
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Summary: Charlotte Always
Review: I actually read this book when I was a young teen and I have to admit I was only reading it because there was nothing else to read in the house and the telly was on the blink. I absolutely loved it from beginning to end. This is a time-travel story with a bit of a twist.Charlotte Makepeace is a new girl at an old boarding school. On her first night she goes to sleep in her bed and in the morning she wakes up as Clare Moby, a schoolgirl from over forty years ago. Of course Charlotte is confused, even more so when people don't realise that she is not Clare, not even Clare's younger sister Emily. Somehow she struggles through her first day as Clare but to add to her confusion she finds herself back in her own time the following day and no one has missed her! Charlotte soon realises that Clare is taking her place in her time and she is taking Clare's. The two girls muddle through by communicating through Clare's diary, leaving each other notes and messages in order for them to survive in their swap-over worlds. However it's not long before Clare's younger sister Emily realises that something is wrong and Charlotte is forced to tell her the truth. With Emily as an ally, Charlotte's time in the past is a little easier but there is a dark cloud on the horizon. Clare and Emily are going into lodgings outside the school and the children have worked out that the time travelling that they are experiencing has something to do with the bed they sleep in and the tree outside the window which exists only in Clare's time. This is an exciting story that moves at a fair pace, even more so when Charlotte is trapped in the past, forced to become a day pupil and temporarily forfeit her real life in the future. Charlotte's identity is soon in question even to herself. Is she Charlotte or is she Clare? Only Emily constant nagging about trying to get the real Clare back keeps the young girl aware of whom she really is. Charlotte experiences life in England during the First World War. What once was history for her becomes the present, and she suffers with her new friends, as they loose loved ones to foreign battlefields, and face the terror of air raids in the middle of the night. Charlotte's eventual permanent return to the future is not without its own problems but luckily Clare had her own ally in the form of Elizabeth, a dorm mate who like Emily realised that Clare was not Charlotte and helped her as best she could. Charlotte's return to the future is not with out a tragic price. Clare, Charlotte finds out died not long after her return to the past, from flu and for a while Charlotte is grief stricken. However redemption comes in the form of a parcel of memories from a now grown up Emily who has waited many years to contact her sister's fellow time traveller in the future. "Charlotte Sometimes" is a surprisingly dark children's novel with flashes colour and inspiration as two young girls live lives that are not their own. It is a poignant story about the loss of those we love and how we have to carry on no matter what. A surprisingly mature book that can be read by both older children and young adults alike.
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Summary: Charlotte Always
Review: I actually read this book when I was a young teen and I have to admit I was only reading it because there was nothing else to read in the house and the telly was on the blink. I absolutely loved it from beginning to end. This is a time-travel story with a bit of a twist. Charlotte Makepeace is a new girl at an old boarding school. On her first night she goes to sleep in her bed and in the morning she wakes up as Clare Moby, a schoolgirl from over forty years ago. Of course Charlotte is confused, even more so when people don't realise that she is not Clare, not even Clare's younger sister Emily. Somehow she struggles through her first day as Clare but to add to her confusion she finds herself back in her own time the following day and no one has missed her! Charlotte soon realises that Clare is taking her place in her time and she is taking Clare's. The two girls muddle through by communicating through Clare's diary, leaving each other notes and messages in order for them to survive in their swap-over worlds. However it's not long before Clare's younger sister Emily realises that something is wrong and Charlotte is forced to tell her the truth. With Emily as an ally, Charlotte's time in the past is a little easier but there is a dark cloud on the horizon. Clare and Emily are going into lodgings outside the school and the children have worked out that the time travelling that they are experiencing has something to do with the bed they sleep in and the tree outside the window which exists only in Clare's time. This is an exciting story that moves at a fair pace, even more so when Charlotte is trapped in the past, forced to become a day pupil and temporarily forfeit her real life in the future. Charlotte's identity is soon in question even to herself. Is she Charlotte or is she Clare? Only Emily constant nagging about trying to get the real Clare back keeps the young girl aware of whom she really is. Charlotte experiences life in England during the First World War. What once was history for her becomes the present, and she suffers with her new friends, as they loose loved ones to foreign battlefields, and face the terror of air raids in the middle of the night. Charlotte's eventual permanent return to the future is not without its own problems but luckily Clare had her own ally in the form of Elizabeth, a dorm mate who like Emily realised that Clare was not Charlotte and helped her as best she could. Charlotte's return to the future is not with out a tragic price. Clare, Charlotte finds out died not long after her return to the past, from flu and for a while Charlotte is grief stricken. However redemption comes in the form of a parcel of memories from a now grown up Emily who has waited many years to contact her sister's fellow time traveller in the future. "Charlotte Sometimes" is a surprisingly dark children's novel with flashes colour and inspiration as two young girls live lives that are not their own. It is a poignant story about the loss of those we love and how we have to carry on no matter what. A surprisingly mature book that can be read by both older children and young adults alike.
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Summary: what a great book!
Review: I am a cure fan as well as a few others *i can tell* that have written reviews. it has taken me almost a year to find this book. I still want to buy it though. i am borrowing from a San Fransisco Library. but anywho, this book was great. it began to scare me as i was finishing it last night though. just some advice: dont read it in a dark room at 3:00 in the morning.ooh, gives you the shivers. just FIND THIS BOOK AND READ IT! it was so good. it almost made me cry! *i guess books move me alot eh?* -=*Rebecca*=-
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I read this book when I was young and I have remembered it and Emma in Winter and Summer Birds for the last 20 years or so. I plan to buy them for my own children to read someday.
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Summary: A book you can read year after year
Review: I read this book years ago, but it still stays in the forefront of my mind. Recently its been stronger than ever thanks to a friend of mine who loves The Cure. Charlotte goes back and forth through time. living her life, and someone elses. She's only Charlotte sometimes, as the title dictates. The story is eerie, but fascinating, Charlotte makes friend with her 'sister" who is not her sister, but the sister of the girl whose life she sometimes lives. She has to keep this fact a secret, and the plot gets deeper and deeper. The end of the book shocked me with the emotion I felt, especially the revelations that comes at the end. It's sad, bittersweet and lovely all at once, this is the kind of book I would keep forever.
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Summary: why did they change the ending?
Review: I read this in the hardback edition when I was a teenager. I loved it so much that when I saw immediately bought it when I saw it on sale as a paperback. What a disappointment! The last chapter was altered so the ending was different. I even got out the original hardcover from the library to check that I wasn't remembering incorrectly - but sadly it was true. While the new version is very good, it just isn't the same as the original.
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Summary: why did they change the ending?
Review: I read this in the hardback edition when I was a teenager. I loved it so much that when I saw immediately bought it when I saw it on sale as a paperback. What a disappointment! The last chapter was altered so the ending was different. I even got out the original hardcover from the library to check that I wasn't remembering incorrectly - but sadly it was true. While the new version is very good, it just isn't the same as the original.
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