基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd ·页码：176 页 ·出版日期：2006年06月 ·ISBN：0753413264 ·条形码：9780753413265 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
·页码：176 页
·出版日期：2006年06月
·ISBN：0753413264
·条形码：9780753413265
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：My Side of the Story
·外文书名：我所经历的故事丛书: 瘟疫
内容简介 "My Side of the Story" is a 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! Rachel is a young girl living in London in 1665. The horrible new disease, the plague, is taking hold of the city and everyone is fearful for their lives. Rachel and her best friend Robert worry that they might be next in line. Then the unthinkable happens - Rachel and her family become infected...Like Rachel, Robert and his family are very frightened - people are dropping dead all around them. When Rachel's family catch the plague his misery increases. Then his father forbids him to see his best friend Rachel in case he falls victim to the plague too. But Robert won't let his friend die without help. Can their friendship survive during this dark, dark hour in England's history?
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.
