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基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2006年06月
·ISBN：0753413558
·条形码：9780753413555
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：My Side of the Story
·外文书名：我身边的故事: 磨坊危机(我身边的故事系列)
内容简介 "My Side of the Story" is completely unique approach to historical fiction. Read the story of one youngster's life in turbulent times, then flip the book and find out first hand how another child reacts to the same events - with very different feelings and results! "Lizzy": This work is set in summer 1842. Lizzy Sprott is thirteen, the daughter of a poor cotton worker, she works at the mill with him. Passionate and impulsive she persuades her moderate father to draw up a petition demanding better working conditions. The plan backfires when Lizzy's father gets blacklisted by mill owner Grumstone. Lizzy thinks everything will be all right as she knows Grumstone's son - they used to play together when she was younger. But suddenly events escalate and there are violent riots outside the mills. Has Lizzy left everything too late...? "Josh": Josh Grumstone is the well-to do son of a cotton mill owner. Diffident but thoughtful, he comes back from boarding school to find the mill in crisis. First siding with his father, he later begins to believe the workers have a rightful cause, especially when the hardheaded Grumstone becomes bent on breaking the strike with means fair or foul. And now that his former friend Lizzy is involved he cannot ignore the danger. Danger that costs some people their lives...
作者简介 Philip Wooderson has written more than twenty books for children, published by A & C Black, Franklin Watts, Scholastic, Heinemann and Oxford University Press. His historical fiction includes the light-hearted Nile Files series and a forthcoming title, The Diary of Samuel Pepys's Servant, for Franklin Watts. His children's fiction has twice been nominated Guardian Book of the Week. Philip has also just completed an adult novel called Tuscan Madonna. Philip divides his time equally between his homes in Correglia, Italy and Ramsgate, Kent.
专业书评 From School Library Journal Grade 5-8–In the midst of the London plague of 1665, Rachel and her family struggle to maintain their relatively comfortable life. She becomes alarmed as friends and servants begin to die and her cousin Robert, her father's clerk, mysteriously disappears. When the family flees to the surrounding countryside, they find out where Robert is, but then the plague hits much closer to home. The structure of this story is unusual, with readers instructed to read Rachel's side of the story first and then flip the book over to Robert's side. This device gives the two main characters distinct voices and provides an interpretation of events from both perspectives. However, what begins as an intriguing format and concept loses steam by the story's end. The plot is sometimes difficult to follow, due to confusing or unexplained historical details, place names, and business dealings. Supporting characters are stock and undeveloped, and the pace is somewhat slow. Readers interested in this period should try Mary Hooper's
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum (Bloomsbury, 2003).
–Kristen Oravec, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Strongsville, OH Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
