The Book of Story Beginnings - Kristin Kladstrup 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 10 and up
Grade Level: 5 - 6
Lexile Measure: 720L (What's this?)
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition (March 25, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763634190
ISBN-13: 978-0763634193
The Book of Story Beginnings Paperback – March 25, 2008
by Kristin Kladstrup (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Story-Beginnings-Kristin-Kladstrup/dp/0763634190
Product details
Age Range: 10 and up
Grade Level: 5 - 6
Lexile Measure: 720L (What's this?)
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition (March 25, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763634190
ISBN-13: 978-0763634193
"Offers mystery, adventure, and fantasy, as well as reflections on family, time travel, and stories. . . . Many readers will find something here to their liking." — BOOKLIST
Oscar Martin was fourteen when he mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse in 1914. His sister claimed Oscar had rowed out to sea — but how was that possible? Nearly a century later, when Lucy Martin moves with her parents to that same Iowa farmhouse, she discovers the strange and dangerous BOOK OF STORY BEGINNINGS, and soon Oscar himself reappears in a bizarre turn of events that sends the two distant relatives on a perilous journey. From a first-time author comes an intricate, spellbinding fantasy that lures you in and won’t let go.
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7-When Lucy Martin moves to the house in Iowa that her father inherited from his Aunt Lavonne, she hopes to solve the mystery of Lavonne's brother's disappearance in 1914, when he was 14. He supposedly rowed off in a boat on a magical ocean that lapped at the garden gate. When Lucy finds the Book of Story Beginnings and writes in it about a girl whose father was a magician, her father becomes a magician who has invented a transforming potion. He turns into a crow and flies away from the cat, who then becomes Oscar, the long-lost boy. Lucy and Oscar then have to find a way over the magical ocean to bring back Lucy's father, who has flown to the land invented by Oscar when he wrote his story beginnings in the magical book. The characters are well rounded and interesting, and Oscar's plight when he is transformed back into a boy and discovers that his entire family is dead is sympathetically and realistically portrayed. While sections of the story at the beginning and end are exciting and even thrilling, the middle section moves slowly and the adventure drags in places. Still, this is an interesting investigation into the power of writing and story, along with a warm and believable look at the relationship of two young people from different eras who become family to one another.-Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City
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From Booklist
Gr. 4-6. When 12-year-old Lucy and her parents move to the farmhouse where her father's family has lived for generations, she hopes to solve the mystery of her great-uncle Oscar's disappearance in 1914, when he was 14. Soon she discovers Oscar's notebook, the mysterious "Book of Story Beginnings," and even Oscar himself, who has returned from another world and, still a teenager, finds his parents gone and his community incomprehensibly different from when he left. Realizing that by beginning a new story in the enchanted book she has placed her father in deadly peril, Lucy enlists Oscar's help to take her into that otherworld where their stories have come to life not in dreams but as cold, hard reality. Accented by a fine description of an ocean magically appearing in the Iowa countryside, Kladstrup's first novel offers mystery, adventure, and fantasy, as well as reflections on family dynamics, time travel, and the structure of stories. If that sounds like a plateful, it is, but many readers will find something here to their liking. Carolyn Phelan
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From the Publisher
From a first-time author, a spellbinding story that lures you in – and won’t let go!
Kristin Kladstrup’s wonderfully transporting fantasy – featuring a ship full of orphaned pirate children, a pair of warring royals, and plenty of magic potions – is sure to thrill all those who dare turn its pages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Author
KRISTIN KLADSTRUP: "I have always loved the big brick house in Iowa where my mother grew up. From its windows, you can look out and see beautiful fields and pastures. But when I was young, I was always ignoring what was in front of me and wishing for something more exciting. From those same windows, I could imagine the ocean stretching out to the Iowa horizon. If I’d had the chance, I might have written a story beginning about it, just as Oscar does. But I was also much more inclined to pretend things than to write them down. Now that I’m grown up, things are backward: I can’t pretend much of anything without writing it down. That’s why there’s now a pretend brick house in Iowa to go along with the real one!" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
KRISTIN KLADSTRUP says, "I have always loved the big brick house in Iowa where my mother grew up. From its windows, you can look out and see beautiful fields and pastures. But when I was young, I was always ignoring what was in front of me and wishing for something more exciting. From those same windows, I could imagine the ocean stretching out to the Iowa horizon. If I’d had the chance, I might have written a story beginning about it, just as Oscar does. But I was also much more inclined to pretend things than to write them down. Now that I’m grown up, things are backward: I can’t pretend much of anything without writing it down. That’s why there’s now a pretend brick house in Iowa to go along with the real one!" Kristin Kladstrup lives with her family near Boston, Massachusetts. This is her first novel.
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