The Wanderer

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Summary: Journey Through a Magical Book
Review: This was not the first book I have read by this author yet it was my favorite. Tha Main Character, Sophie is a very complex person. She loves to learn and has a vivid imagination. The adventure her and the fellow characters go through is very intresting told through journey entries it lets you be kind of nosy going through their journal. I would recommend this book not only because it captures your attention.....,but because it takes you to places you may never have imagined.

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Summary: This is a beautiful book
Review: I just finished The Wanderer a few minutes ago, and it is very definintly the best book I've read in a while. The story is told in journal form from the point of view of Sophie and her cousin Cody. They, Uncle Mo (Cody's father), Uncle Stew, his son Brian, and Uncle Dock set out across the ocean in their ship, The Wanderer, to visit Bompie in England. A lot of things happen along the way, and as they help Sophie find herself, her family finds themselves as well. This is a beautiful, beautiful story, and I also liked the black and white illustrations at the chapter beginnings.

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Summary: Wow! Another classic from Creech!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent book given to me by my students! Creech is one of my favorite authors, particularly because of the talents she demonstrates in this novel. Her wonderful imagery, well-developed characters, and enticing plot clearly make this work one of her best. If you loved Walk Two Moons, as I did, you will definitely enjoy The Wanderer!

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This is my favorite Sharon Creech book so far and I've read them all. This one is amazing! I am reading it for the forth time and got the tape too. Sophie and Cody go with their uncles across the ocean in a sailboat. The people I didn't like at first I ended up liking a lot and the stories about Bompey are so fun--Sophie tells these stories to evereybody on the boat but she's never met Bompey--supposedly her grandfather. There is so much myhstery and funny parts and everytime I read it I find something different I didn't notice before. Oh, and there's a really great code in it that I learned. You will LOVE this book!

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Summary: Favorite Book Ever!
Review: The Wanderer has to be my favorite book of Sharon Creech's. If you love the sea, sailing, fishing or swimmming, marine life or any sea animal then you'll love this book. The book has Sophie's and Cody's journals of their journey on the sea. It is especially neat to see what Cody writes about Sophie and what Sophie writes about Cody. Everyone in the story has a distinct character. This book is a must read! It is also not very hard to get through, the print is rather large and I read it in only two days! It really shows the ups and downs of a sailor's life!

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Summary: not Sharon Creech's best work
Review: I was rather disappointed by The Wanderer. Compared to Sharon Creech's other works (such as Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird), this novel was lacking depth and came up short. First of all, I wished there was a better storyline. It didn't really capture my attention when the story was basically about this family who sails the Atlantic just to see their grandfather, Bompie. There were promises and foreshadowing of family secrets that would be revealed by the end (which was the only thing that kept me reading), but it was an anticlimax. The family secrets weren't very interesting, and most of them you could have guessed by the end of the book. Also, the author redundantly repeated and "stretched" a certain event that occured, making the narrators, Cody and Sophie, keep on repeating what they felt towards that occurance. This prevented any mentions of other things that happened. Second, I couldn't really connect with the protagonists, especially Sophie. Though she revealed her dreams, feelings, and the happenings on the boat, Sophie never really talked about her feelings towards her adoption, which I thought was a very big point in the story. The Wanderer was mostly a rather dull, boring book. I would recommend Walk Two Moons as a better choice for a Creech novel.

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Summary: !
Review: This is a great book, with some mystery in it! Sophie is 13, and is going to England to visit Bompie, her grandfather, on a small boat, 'The Wanderer'. Accompanying her, are her 3 uncles, Mo, Stuart and Dock. Also, her 2 cousins, Cody and Brian. The book is Sophie and Cody's journal entries. I liked Cody's best, he was funny. There is one bad word in the book, one of the uncles, Stew, I think, says the Lord's name in vain, but that was the only objectionable part in the book. Sharon Creech wrote very well, and the journal entries are exactly like what 2 13 year olds would write. A very good book!

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I thought that this book;The Wanderer, was okay in the beginning but that it got GREAT when they left Grand Manan. I rate this book 5 stars! It was FANTASTIC! :-)

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Summary: The Wanderer
Review: I love Sharon Creech because in every one of her brilliant books, the character in which the story revolves around is always so different from the one in her other stories, but somehow also familiar. In The Wanderer, Sophie is this character. While sailing across the Atlantic to England to see her Bompie, and also telling stories about him growing up, you never get bored with this work of literature. It is charming, witty, and fun-and though Sophie is basicly the main character in this adventure, you get 2 different point of views to hear from. Her's, and her cousin, Cody's. By the end of this book you will love every single one of the characters-read it.

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Summary: Same Idea, Different Setting
Review: This book is a variation on the theme introduced in Creech's book Walk Two Moons: a girl, through telling someone else's stories, comes to be able to acknowledge and accept her own. Both girls suffered an extreme loss, which they couldn't come to terms with. Both girls take a journey with others and thereby come to be able to accept their own tragedies and get on with life.

This book is enough different that it does hold the reader's interest, but I rather wish that it didn't have so many similar echoes to its predecessors.