![]() ![]() From the start, there is something wrong with the Seahawk : the families that were to serve as Charlotte’s chaperones do not arrive, and the unsavory crew warns her not to make the trip. ![]() She begins her trip a prim schoolgirl returning home to her American family from England. Publishers Weekly describes the book in this way: “Told in the form of a recollection, these ‘confessions’ cover 13-year-old Charlotte’s eventful 1832 transatlantic crossing. Charlotte Doyle is part award winner, part crowd pleaser, and altogether enjoyable. ![]() But I took her at her word and brought it up with the rest of the group. “It is so good!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I hadn’t actually read it myself at the time. One day one of my best readers came up to me, clutching a copy of The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle in her hot little hand. I run a bookgroup for kids between the ages of 9 and (now) 14 out of my library. ![]()
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