Charlotte Sometimes Book

Awakening on her second day at boarding school to find her surroundings slightly different, Charlotte was horrified to discover that the people were different, too, and that instead of her four roommates, there was only one little girl who claimed to be her younger sister. As the bewildering day progressed, the awful truth dawned upon her -- she had slipped back in time and exchanged places with Clare Moby, a girl who had been at school more than forty years before. Thus began a strange adventure, for at first Charlotte and Clare alternated, each spending one day in her own time and one in the other, until the day Charlotte was moved from her regular room and the girls were caught in the wrong times. At first, Charlotte was relieved to be the same person every day. As the weeks passed, however, she began to fear she might be stuck forever. But when the chance to leave finally came, she found that she was almost reluctant, for she had formed a friendship that would last over all the years that lay between. As in Emma in Winter, Penelope Farmer explores the fragile barriers between layers of time with the delicacy of perception and the skillful writing that have won her praise with every book since the publication of The Summer Birds. Here she demonstrates once more that she is a young writer gifted with an extraordinary imagination.Read More