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Title: Isabel: Taking Wing (Girls of Many Lands) by Annie Dalton, Mark Elliott ISBN: 1-58485-517-7 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A GREAT book
Comment: Isabel: Taking Wing is a VERY good book. It tells about her life as a twelve-year-old in England in 1592. She becomes friends with Meg, a servant girl. But when she an Meg go to a theater alone, they end up staying too long, and they steal a boat that almost sinks. When Isabel returns home very late, her strict aunt tells her father what she's done, and she's sent away to her Aunt de Vere's country estate. When she finally returns home, her father forgives her after she saves her baby sister from dying. The only bad part in this book is when Meg dies from the plauge. This is a fantastic book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Summary of Isabel Taking Wing
Comment: This book provides for the reader a very accurate and correct description of England in the year 1592 while still providing and interesting read for a variety of age groups. Let's look at this book from the point in which you might want to read it and the different points of view of different people.
If you wanted to read this book for information on the culture of England during the year 1592 there are several specific details which may be of special interest to you. First of all, the whole book, especially in the Then and Now part, have accurate descriptions of the clothing that was worn by women and girls in this time period. You learn about the different layers of their clothing and how clothes were used as a symbol of wealth and priveleage. You also learn of the accesorie called a pomander, which was important as it was supposed to ward off dieases such as plague. You also learn a bit about the hierarchy of birds and plays in that time. There are also hints about a women's place in society at the time.
If your purpose in reading this book was to learn about plauge, you also have several important details. In the book, especially at the end, you can find the symptoms of plauge. These may not be written out and palced in a list so to speak, but if you look for them and are good at inferencing, you will easily find them. Also, in the Then and now Section, you find about the attempts made my doctors in those times to ward of plauge. You also find out about how plauge spread, when it happened, and what families did if plauge hit them.
Of course, for many people, the reason they read this book was just to find an interesting book to read, and this book had details for them too. There are good descriptions in the book. Also, there are some parts in the story that are not necesseraly important to the overall plot, but form interesting, small sub-plots of their own, that make the book interesting and fun to read all around, although people who were reading this for specific information might have found those parts annoying. Many girls can connect to Isabel and her feelings, which are ones that we most likely have all experianced during our lives. Most of us can also probably imagine how it would be in this situation and if not you'd still might feel a bit saddened at first for Isabel.
This book is also very well written. The desciptions are very colorful and entertaing but they still give us insight on life in 1592 England. The parts that are funny, entertaining, and don't completely relate to the overall plot do not take over the book as in some other novels that I can metion but would prefer not to. The grammer is also very correct and the sentence starters vary, thus keeping the book from being dull.
In conclusion, this book is very informative, while still being interesting and entertaining. We can probably relate to it and it is extremely well written. I reccommend this to anyone of any age no matter what your reason for reading is.
Rating: 5
Summary: Moral-filled story
Comment: I've always heard that in many cultures and countries, boys are given so much more freedom than girls, and they get so many more privleges. I really think that's extremely unfair. Isabel: Taking Wing reiterates that boys are not better than girls. She has to stay at home all day while her brother, Robert, gets to go be an apprentice to a blacksmith. But whe Isabel goes to her aunt's place, she and I realized how great it is to help other people. Isabel also realized that she can't let a petty thing like how her other aunt is mean to her stop her from being adventurous. I admire her aunt so much for dedicating her life to helping others. It's an amazing book full of morals and lessons for life.
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Title: Cecile: Gates of Gold (Girls of Many Lands) by Mary Casanova, Jean-Paul Tibbles ISBN: 1584855185 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Spring Pearl: The Last Flower (Girls of Many Lands) by Laurence Yep, Kazuhiko Sano ISBN: 1584855193 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Kathleen: The Celtic Knot (Girls of Many Lands) by Siobhan Parkinson, Troy Howell ISBN: 158485748X Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Neela: Victory Song (Girls of Many Lands) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Troy Howell ISBN: 1584855215 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway (Girls of Many Lands) by Kirkpatrick Hill, Patrick Faricy ISBN: 1584855207 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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