Charlotte sometimes
Farmer, Penelope, 1939-2013
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It's Charlotte's first night at boarding school. When she wakes up things seem different, the girl in the next bed is new and keeps calling her Clare and says that she is Clare's younger sister Emily. Somehow Charlotte has slipped back 40 years. 'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?Charlotte Makepeaces first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the routine and each other. No one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispers and giggles. But on Charlottes very first night something mysterious starts to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school. But something has changed. Somehow Charlotte has slipped forty years back in time...Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can learn what life was like during the First World WarVintage Childrens Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alices Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Main title:
Charlotte sometimes / Penelope Farmer ; illustrated by Chris Connor.
Author:
Farmer, Penelope, 1939-, authorConnor, Chris, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2013.
Collation:
227 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.
ISBN:
9780099582526 (pbk)9781448161430 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
823.914JF
Local class:
FIC.JJC
Language:
English
Subject:
Time travel -- Juvenile fictionBoarding schools -- Juvenile fictionChildren's storiesFiction 9+School fictionChildren's / Teenage fiction: Classic fictionChildren's / Teenage social issues: War & conflict issuesChildren's / Teenage fiction: Historical fictionChildren's / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forcesFiction 9+School fiction
BRN:
741304
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