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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Orchard Classics)

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Orchard Classics)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: ok book
Review: There is a girl named charlotte doyle. She went on ship. There is a captian jaggery who wanted the murder to come out. Who murder Mr.hollybass, and they accused charlotte of doing it. So then she was put in jail. There was a man named zachariah who was thought to be but he wasn't he was hidding in the jail. Sothen Charlotte and him were going tto get the crew to go after Mr.Jagger .So Charlotte went to her cabin and Mr.Jagger was in it and then he went after her and fell off the ship. Then they made Charlotte captain. Then she got back home. But then ran away and went back to the ship.

It was an ok story, It was an adventurest, exciting, thrilling story.
I didn't really like it because it went into to much details.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An Exciting, Twisted Tale
Review: This book is about a who's goal is to become a proper lady. But all that changes when 13-year-old Charlotte is booked on a ship-voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to Rhode Island where the rest of her family awaits her. But even before the voyage starts, suspicious things start happening. As she befriends the crew and becomes one of them, there are mysterious happenings. The two families that she is supposed to travel with don't show up. She recieves several warnings that she shouldn't be on that ship. Trouble strikes when Charlotte is accused of murder onboard. Charlotte didn't do it. Who did?

I like the book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle because it slowly draws you into the story; it has many unexpected twists and turns that make the book so exciting you can hardly put it down.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very exciting you never know whats going to happen!
Review: This book is about a proper young girl who boreds a ship called the Sea Hawk. There was suposed to be two families on with her but they didn't get on.She going to met her parents and its going to talk two moths to get there. She was the only girl on the ship. She was scared.She finds her self becoming a sailor with the rest of the guys after her friend dies her only friend.

She finds her way into trouble when she is acused for muder. Every body on deck is against her. What will happen well you'll have to figure that out for yourself.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Adventures are Great
Review: Charlotte was a young proper young lady who was known for her beauty. Her father owned a ship called the Seahawk. He sent her on that ship. The first problem was that there was supports to be 2 other families riding on the Seahawk but when she arrived at the boarding ramp to meet the other families they weren't there. So Charlotte boarded the ship.All the crewmembers were men so that meant that Charlotte was the only girl aboard the ship. As the book goes along a number of events that happened to Charlotte and the other crewmembers.Toward the end Charlotte is accused of murder. SHe was sent down to the hole(which is the prision for the boat). Down there it is pit black.


I thought that the book was a very mysterious. At a lot of points you were trying to guess what was going to happen next. The climax of the book ws when Mr. Holleybrass was murderedand Charlotte was acussed of murder. All the events that happened wsa the best beccuase you never got bored of the book.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: OK
Review: I didn't like it because it's not that exciting, It doesn't have a lot of action, and I only like a couple of chaptes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Review: Do you like adventure, excitement, and betrayal? Do you like riveting action and tricky plot lines? Well then, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is the book for you. This suspenseful adventure story keeps you on the edge of your seat, and keeps you turning the pages. A young girl is pulled from her world and put on a ship full of disgusting, hidious men. Will she remember her proper ways or will she stick it out and become a crew member? I never really liked adventure books but after reading this book I enjoy them alot more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful, Meaningful Book...
Review: I am 15 now and I still cannot get this novel out of my head, which I read many years ago as a pre-teen. So browsing around I decide to share my views on it The book beginnings with Charlotte Doyle, a 13 year old girl, rich upbringing, obviously what people must have saw in 1832 as a
"fragile", "breakable", "untouchable" image. Alone, boarding a ship bound for America to return to her parents, slowly Charlotte begans to become involved--more than she wants to--with the crew and captain of the ship. This proves to be a dangerous situation for the crew begans to reveal their undeniable loathing for the captain and vice versa. Charlotte, over the coarse of the novel finding in herself a rebel and a much stronger individual than she knew, holds a close bond to the cook of the ship, an old, black man which I found somewhat of a bibilcal take on a character, Zachariah. As time passes she seems torn in deciding who on the ship to side with--the captain, a respectable man to her father, or the crew in which she is left alone with aboard the ship. This book is very much complex I found for a chidren's story: twists taking place and at last in a uproar of confusing and guilt from these twists, Charlotte ends up leaving behind her prior status and joins the crew, working as one of them. The twists and ventures Charlotte experiences do not stop there. Murders, secrets revealed, adventure on the high sea, everything. This book as some say, may start of slow, but by the end it's very engrossing, leaving you statified, but yet not wanting it to stop!

Truly this is a tale of strength and what better way to show through, like I mentioned, a young girl in that age. I didn't not find this novel disturbing because it is unbelieveable, as I heard. In fact because of the rare circumstances, I found it more enjoyable. After all who knows what could have happened and what could not? Those make the best tales.

This is also a book of courage to leave the past and old world you thought you may have been better suited for behind. You can very much connect to Charlotte, her feelings, thanks to the writting of this novel by Avi. Perhaps I am going on a bit too much being it's only a children's novel, but it's very compelling, I thought and it's one I will never forget.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The True Confessinos of Charlotte Doyle:One of Avi's best
Review: I wouldn't have normally picked up The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle because it is historical fiction, but once I did I could hardly put it down. This exciting thriller is truly one of Avi's best.
It starts out when Charlotte, a thirteen year old girl in 1832, is heading home from England to rejoin her family in Providence, Rhode Island. She was warned not to board the Seahawk, but it was mandated by her escort to board anyway. She was the only female aboard this sea bound ship and so she tries not to befriend any of the crew members. At first she puts herself on a pedestal over them and does not except there ways. Once into the journey her aspect on the captain, a high class man that reminds Charlotte of her father, and of the crew completely change. She has to find out in the pandemonium who she can sincerely trust and who she misjudged. This whole book is filled with surprises but the ending has the biggest twist.
I was intrigued by this book because of the various characters and their relationships with one another. Avi is able to lure you into the book and and make you wonder just as Charlotte would have. I recommend this book to anyone who likes an exasperating adventure.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Story to Remember
Review: This is the best book ever! It's tragedy and adventure. A young girl on a ship, the only girl. She befriends the crew as the try to rule over the captian, she becomes one of them a crew member. Then she is suspected of murder, did she do it. Try this tale and discover the fateful voyage of a young girl and the desisions she has to make aboard the Seahawk. This is one of the best books you'll ever read! A true 5 star book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: One Brave Soul
Review: A review by Katie
A young thirteen-year-old girl named Charlotte Doyle going to school in liver pool is leaving to go back home to Providence Road Island aboard the mighty Seahawk. Once aboard she finds her self-being the only passenger, and very lonely, until she is befriended by the cook Zechariah. When he dies Charlotte is alone and is faced with a lot of sacrifices and adventures.

This Story was great. I loved the characters in it expressly Charlotte she was brave and Zechariah he was loyal and Captain Jiggery he was the person that put the chill down my spine. A lot was going on and so many things happened before the climax of the book. The author gave a lot of detail but not too much. The conflicts between everyone are existing never would have expected some of the stuff that happened it was all good. When the book was over I kind of wanted the book to keep going but I was kind of glad because in some parts it dragged on.


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