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Summary: The Wanderer By:Sharon Creech
Review: The Wanderer
"Wandering Away In A Good Book"Title: The Wanderer
Author: Sharon Creech
Pages: 305
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0-439-33687-2
Price: $3.99 (paperback)
Imagine what it would be like to sail across the sea for miles, just to see a friend! Imagine if you could experience it without really going! Now you can if you read The Wanderer, by: Sharon Creech. It is full of adventures and excitement and ready to take you on a long journey. The Wanderer, by: Sharon Creech is a book that you can't put down if you start reading. It's about a girl named Sophie who sails on a ship called "The Wanderer" from Connecticut to England on a long trip. Sophie and her family, sail to see a friend named Bombie, which is actually her grandpa. They run into all sorts of problems, like when a huge wave rushes over the top of the ship and almost ruins everything on deck. They struggle all the way across the ocean. Will they make it to Bombie? Read the book and find out! I loved all the adventures that took place in The Wanderer. It was very realistic and some parts in the book are similar to my life. I'm sure you can find ways you are alike the characters too. This book is certainly one of my favorites. Sophie is like me in a lot of ways. We both love to swim and be around water. We both like to see the world and visit places. Also we are alike because we're both about the same age. And I like to try to help someone if they're down or upset like Sophie does. I would really recommend The Wanderer to anyone, who likes adventures. Girls would especially like this book because Sophie is a girl you've probably experienced a lot of the same things that she has. You would also like this book if you like to read book-logs or diaries. Even if you don't like reading this is a fast reader book and one you can get into and really enjoy. So take the journey, read the book and add it to your "favorite book list."
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Summary: An Adventure That Will Go Over Your Head
Review: The magnificent author, Sharon Creech, tells an adventure story called 'The Wanderer'. The awesome book has action, adventure, and love. You should read it, but for now, I will tell you a little about it.
This story is about a young girl, named Sophie, who has the desire to sail. After many years, she finally gets to sail across the sea to England from America. She goes with some family members on the long journey. On the way, they have some good times and some bad times, and I mean some really bad times. If you want to know more, you got to read it.
In the book, The Wanderer, I found some really great things about the story and some things I didn't like. One thing I liked about it was that the story gave great detail. I felt like I was right there on the trip experiencing it with Sophie. Another reason I liked it, too, was that it had a lot of action. There weren't too many dull moments on the trip; the characters were always on the move. The last reason I liked it was that it was very touching. Sophie's uncle was looking for his lost love. Also, the crew always looked out for each other.
This story was so good, there were only two bad things about it, I thought. At first, it was confusing to read. Each chapter had one character, Sophie or her cousin, Codie, telling the story. At first, I didn't notice the narrator was changing each chapter, but then I figured it out. The other thing I didn't like about the story was that it was violent sometimes. Some parts were bloody and other parts had lots of fighting between the characters.
I would recommend this story to kids my age, eleven and up. Sophie is 12 years old. It teaches you a great lesson, 'Follow your dreams'. Also, it is a good story with lots of action and adventure. I hope you will read this book; it will be very inspiring to you.
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: The beginning of The Wanderer was slow. It admit that at first I thought the book was boring. A bunch of brothers and cousins fixed a ship and went out to sea. Well, after I got about half-way into the book I realized it was much more than that. Sharon Creech describes the ocean, how it feels, how it looks, how it smells, so well, you actually feel like you're on the ship yourself. As this book is told from diary entries of two teenaged cousins, it is not hard to follow. Reading the two cousin's descriptions of life aboard the Wanderer, their ship, is very interseting as they have extremely different personalities. Toward the end, when the ship and its crew finally reach their destination, it is more emotional than any other part of the book. It makes the reader realize the plot and the history of one character that was a total mystery until now. The wonderful descriptions and extrememly moving experiences for the characters and the reader make this book an incredibly wonderful and amazing read for any book lover.
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Summary: I'm ready to head out to sea
Review: Again, the author's lovely fast pace and style which sweeps the reader along with the first sentence. The travel logs of young Sophie and Cody give us glimpses into their past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails across the sea (of life too?). What a young, courageous pair to love the big ocean and to face its dangers, violent waves and furious winds. I'm afraid of the sea but after reading this book I want to go out too. This is a charming book about the courage of survival, grief and the young heroine's self-discovery. The experience on the sea has made her "all clean and new."
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Summary: Another pleaser from a gifted author
Review: Traditional Sharon Creech - the journey theme. In this case, orphaned Sophie takes off on a sea adventure from Connecticut to England with her 3 uncles and two cousins. Together the motley crew repairs the Wanderer and sets off to England to see Bumpie, the father of the uncles, and grandfather of the cousins. Each take a turn not only at each job in the ship, but also at narrating; Cody, a wisecracker, gives us all the details about Sophie that she purposefully leaves out. Everyone has to teach the others something over the course of the trip. Cody teaches juggling, Sophie tells stories, Uncle Mo teaches radio code. Typical of Creech, emphasis is placed on teaching and learning for skills and real life application, rather than to pass a test.
The art and design is very striking. Stylized black and white graphics that look almost wood cut head each chapter. Equal appeal for boys and girls, pair this contemporary sea voyage story with the historical Stowaway by Karen Hesse.
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Summary: An amazing novel!
Review: I enjoyed "The Wanderer" because it was full of adventure and it had a lot of voice.
It'll bring you tears and laughter at the same time!
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Summary: The Wanderer
Review: I really liked the book The Wanderer because of the deep thoughts how the characters felt about each other and how they reacted to the voyage. I ecspecially liked it when Bompie found his love. Also I enjoy books that are similar to a diary or journal like this book. This book will definitley take you away into the voyage itself.
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Summary: Drifting
Review: I rate The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech, as a three on a scale of one to five. I chose three because it was an all right book but it did not really grab my attention.
The plot went like this, a girl named Sophie is adopted by a family and loves the sea. She is invited to go on a boat trip with her two cousins Cody and Brian, and three uncles, Mo, Stew, and Dock across the Atlantic Ocean to go to England where her adopted grandpa Bompie lives. She says she knows him and his stories buy she can?t, or can she. They sail across the ocean stopping along the way at places of interest with some incidents at sea and a rather violent storm. But they eventually make it to England where they see Bompie.
Overall I liked this book because of the content and how the plot eventually fits together in the end.
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Summary: The Wanderer
Review: Adventurous and breathtaking The Wanderer tells an emotional story about 13 year old Sophie and her daring sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Sophie, her three cousins, and two uncles set out for England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. On their way they find out Bompie is sick. There is a vicious storm that throws them off course and it worries everyone. Will they get to Bompie in time? During this dangerous, but yet exciting journey Sophie learns the true story of her life and why everything is how it is.
I enjoyed this novel because I feel like I am right there with Sophie when she is up on the deck during the storm and when she's telling Bompie stories. This is an excellent novel, so please do read it!!!
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Summary: Sharon Creech's Best
Review: This was the first of Sharon Creech's books that I read but I read many more of her books afterwards and they are great.
Sophie has a secret that not even she really understands. She wants to go on a boat trip with her 3 uncles and 2 guy cousins across the ocean to see her grandpa, Bompie. On the trip, they are all asked to teach one thing to everyone else. Sophie teaches Bompie's stories. She says Bompie told them to her but everyone knows she has never met Bompie. (He wrote her lots of letters, though.) Cody, one of Sophie's cousins, teaches juggling but everyone already thinks he is a complete goof and can never be serious. He is determined to prove everyone wrong and to be serious. Brian, Sophie's other cousin, needs to loosen up. He's a know-it-all.
This is a very adventurous book packed with secrets, mysteries, challenges, and memorable characters. Plus it's all told through Sophie's journal and Cody's summer journal.
If you read this book, I promise you won't be let down.
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