Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Rudyard Kipling, Scary, Seafaring
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Harvey is the fifteen-year-old stuck-up son of a rich American railroad owner. He’s on a large ship, going to Europe, and bragging about never being sick. Then he smokes a rather strong cigar, goes to the railing because he’s sick, and is swept overboard. Harvey is picked up by Disko Troop’s fishing vessel, the We’re Here. Disko won’t take him back to his home in New York, so Harvey’s stuck on the We’re Here for the rest of the fishing season.
Here’s a great example of why you shouldn’t be arrogant. It’s also a great way to understand the way the fishing industry operated in the late 1800s. The sailors talk a little funny, so don’t try to read it out loud unless you can do all those different accents!
Posted by Ruth
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Incredibook!, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Elizabeth George Speare, Seafaring
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Kit Tyler has left her house in Barbados and has come to live with her aunt’s family in colonial Connecticut. But everything seems so different that Kit, unaccustomed to the strict Puritanical lifestyle, can’t seem to do anything right. Soon, however, she finds a friend in Hannah Tupper, a sweet old Quaker woman, whom everyone believes to be a witch, living by herself near Blackbird Pond. But if Kit’s friendship with Hannah is discovered, she will never be accepted by the colonists. She must decide between her duty, and what her heart tells her.
This is a wonderful book full of love, anger, rejection, fear, sadness, and relief. It’s also fascinating to see how the colonists lived. Once you start this book, you’ll have a hard time putting it down until you’ve finished. All that to say, I can’t decide which of Elizabeth George Speare’s I like the most: The Bronze Bow or The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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