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Title: At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper ISBN: 1-58234-849-9 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: At the sign of the sugared plum is just plan BRILLIANT!!! I would recomend it to Anyone and I advise Anyone to read it.
Mary Hooper creates the scene of london so well that you can imagen that your there in the terribl time of the Plauge.
Please, please, PLEASE read this book because I assure you that you're love it!
Rating: 5
Summary: truly fabulous book.
Comment: What a great book. Mary Hooper brings 17th century london vividly to life with this fascinating tale. Very evocative and brilliant story too. Cant wait for her next one.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating!
Comment: It is June, 1665 and young Hannah---fresh from her small country village---excitedly arrives in London to help her sister, Sarah, at Sarah's sweetmeats shop called The Sugared Plum. Hannah's excitement is tempered, however, when she learns that the plague has broken out in London .
As the two young women create miniature, candied confections, they watch and wait quietly as the dreaded disease begins to move closer to their parish. Soon "Orders" are posted which lists the rules and procedures that Londoners must follow to help prevent spread of the sickness. The well-to-do, able to obtain "Certificates of Health" begin to leave the city.
Bills of Mortality, which list the number of deaths during the week, begin to rise steadily. Mention of hundreds of dead soon rises to thousands. More alarming than the rising numbers, however, are the immediate, personal signs that the plague is running rampant. Hannah sees, to her horror, houses near their shop which have been "enclosed" because someone inside had died of the disease. The remaining occupants must live inside, behind padlocks and chains, guarded day and night for forty days.
Just when all seems lost, Hannah discovers a means of escape. But will it be too late?
This well-written story is fast-paced and alive with believable characters. The author has skillfully woven throughout enough background information so that readers will be able to identify with young Hannah and all that is happening to her. Also included are a glossary, "Notes on London 's Plague," and recipes from the seventeenth century.
Reviewed by the Education Oasis staff.
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Title: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0375813748 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The River Between Us by Richard Peck ISBN: 0803727356 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness Book 1) by Tamora Pierce ISBN: 0375814663 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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