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Summary: A Wonderful Captivating Story!!!!!
Review: I still remember reading this book 2 years ago and can recall all parts of it. I can say that it is about a girl named Annie in our time who has a mechanic boyfriend of a sort (or so he wishes)---otherwise there is nothing particuarly unordinary about her. Then one day she walks into an old "haunted" house and from here she transfers back 100 years in time and meets a boy called Stratton (who is considered very handsome). Anyway, he is from a family held in high prestige. Here she and Statton recognize each others differences immidiately (hey! Something weird is going on....). So, they get to know each other in the past and Annie makes up a story to stay there. Meanwhile there has been a murder of a maid and someone has been wrongly accused and it is up to Annie to clear the mystery.
The book not only combines a nail-biting suspence story but a blooming romance as well. In the end you will be running immidiately to the book story to buy the second in the series ...It is just that GOOD!(does she risk all and stay in the past or does she go back to the future times and forget---the mechanic is there....) Anyway I HIGHLY recommend this book to ANY young adult reader....It is one of those books that sticks out from the others and is nearly impossible to forget....A definate favorite!!
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Summary: A book with a bunch of "what if's?"
Review: "Both Sides of Time" is an interesting book, but at times, I thought I might stop reading it because it dragged at times, in the beginning. What kept me going was to see what happened to everyone. The characters were developed well. There's nothing special about them, but you'll care about them and their outcome by the end of the story. It seemed the murder was just thrown in there to give the story body (although it did show the power of women) - the whole story should have been dedicated to it, in my opinion. I did wonder if Cooney exaggerated how women were treated in the 1890s; she made it sound like women would get the vapors if they blinked, which would cause the men to say don't blink. One thing Caroline B. Cooney did right, was the ending - it'll make you want to read the rest of the series - something I will most certainly do. I recommend.
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Summary: Just keep reading!
Review: At the beginning of this book I was REALLY confused, she starts falling and I was thinking, "What is she talking about?¿?¿?" After the first, say 20 pages it started getting better and better. By the time I finished the series I was glad I had read them. Once you make it through the beginning it's all good!
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Summary: An Enchanting Story
Review: In Caroline Cooney's enchanting book Both Sides of Time, the story starts out when Annie travels back in time to the 1800's, Cooney uses descriptive words to form mental pictures of what life was like back then. Annie falls in love with Strat, a wealthy boy who lived in Stratton Mansion. Annie wanted to say with Strat, but she wasn't sure how that would affect her time. Though none of us have time traveled, most of us have experienced a time in which were unsure whether to follow our hearts or our minds. We give this book five stars and four thumbs up!
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Summary: A beautiful beginning
Review: Caroline B. Cooney once again masters the art of writing in book 1 of her time quartet. She combines the elegant world of 1895 with that of the crude 1995 to create this provacative novel about young love, misery, murder, and above all time. This book is enough to spark the imagination of just about any reader. I surely want to continue on Annie and Strat's desperate journey through time to once again live in love.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book was different from what I thought it would be. Its about this girl, Annie, who is a total romantic. Her b/f's idea of romance is letting her help him in the car shop. So when she falls back in time for 100 yrs, and finds true love there (his name, Strat), can you blame her for wanting to stay? But when she goes back to her own time, and finds out that the mansion Strat once lived in is being torn down, she feels like her only link to her true love is being taken away from her. So what happens? Does she ever see Strat again? Read the book to find out.
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Summary: Torn Between Centuries
Review: A review by Julia
A teenage girl named Annie thinks only of love and romance and longs for it. She has a boy in mind that she is planning on turning into a romantic man this summer. It was that last day of school and Annie was so excited that she rode her bike strait to her boyfriend Sean's house. Although she liked him a lot he did not pay much attention to her so as he was working on his car, like usual, Annie took stroll to a nearby mansion that had been turned into apartments, but was destine to be torn down within the next few days. While she was there, thinking she must have drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of dancing in the Great ballroom. Annie felt like she was falling, but when she opened her eyes she had not fallen down, she fell back... back in time. This book makes you want to just keep on turning the pages and savor every moment of it. I certainly enjoyed the way that the author explicitly described the courtyard and the gardens to make you feel as if you were actually there with the sun beaming down upon your face. Annie's relationship with her Boyfriend shows how much she is longing for love and affection that she is lacking from her always-working family. Reading this story gives you small yet surreal glimpses of what true love is all about, also what heartache is when you loose your true love. I would strongly recommend this book to any one that is looking for a good read and wants to learn what people would do or sacrifice to get back to their true love after they have been lost.
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Summary: Not as Great...
Review: This book is the first in this fabulous series. I actually read the second book first, then came back to read this book. I think the second book, Out of Time, is so much better. In this book, Strat sounds like a jerk! The characters get better in Out of Time, but their are some good parts in this book. If you read this, and you didn't like it, you should still read the others in the series. And if you've only read the others, come back and read this to find out more about Annie and Strat.
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Summary: A Love Story
Review: This book is about a girl traveling back a hundred years and falls in love.
I would recommend this book because it has an interesting plot. Also the author's writing is not too hard to read. The setting is interesting too because it switches off from the present to the past. So I do recommend this book!!!
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Summary: The best book I've ever read in my life
Review: Hello, I believe this is a wonderful book. It's incredibly gripping and well descriptive. I love the Idea of a normal person who actually has probelms can be special and travel through time. This book is amazing
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