Sealed with a Secret
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فرمت کتاب
ebook
تاریخ انتشار
2016
Lexile Score
630
Reading Level
2-3
ATOS
4.1
Interest Level
4-8(MG)
نویسنده
Lisa Schroederناشر
Scholastic Inc.شابک
9780545907378
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
March 1, 2016
A 12-year-old Londoner hopes that solving a 75-year-old puzzle will mend her relationship with her big sister. The blonde, white English friend from My Secret Guide to Paris (2014) stars in her own adventure. A week after returning from Paris, Phoebe's exasperated with her sister, Alice, who talks of nothing but her Parisian romance and her university applications. A flea-market find from the holiday--one Phoebe suspects is worth rather more than the 10 euros she paid for it--gives her the seed of an idea. Hidden in the antique Cartier compact is a letter from a girl in 1941 to her sister, a wartime evacuee living in the countryside. The letter contains a puzzling series of steps that will "bring two people together"; could it mend the relationship between Phoebe and Alice? Though she's a native, Phoebe takes a tourist's view of London as she follows the magical instructions, whether it's making a wish in Trafalgar Square or traveling from Kensington Gardens while reminiscing about the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. History lessons abound; one construction worker who opens with informal and dated slang ("crikey") later recites a tidy, encyclopedia-style summary of the history of Wilton's Music Hall. Not meaty but an entertaining, comfortably predictable path through solving the puzzle of sibling rivalry. (Fiction. 9-11)
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May 1, 2016
Gr 4-7-Twelve-year-old Phoebe has a secret. While on an antiquing trip in Paris with her family in My Secret Guide to Paris, she discovered a beautiful antique compact. Phoebe has worked with her dad in his antiques shop since she was a little girl, and she suspects the compact might be valuable enough to help send her sister Alice to college. Things get a bit more complicated when Phoebe opens it and finds a World War II-era letter containing a mysterious spell to bring people closer together "in more ways than one." Following the steps of the spell leads Phoebe on a scavenger hunt around London. Schroeder is at her best when bringing the city of London to life and depicting the complex relationships between siblings.
Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
hedgeguin2 - Sealed with a Secret is a book about a girl named Phoebe, who’s sister is leaving for university soon. They don’t get along at all, until Phoebe finds a letter written 70 years ago hidden inside a old but expensive compact at a antique store. The letter contains a spell that can be used to bring two people together. Phoebe decides to try it out with her sister and goes on a scavenger hunt around London, where she lives, to figure out the clues and do them. But in reality, that’s not what she really needed to get her friendship back with her sister, Alice. I like this book, and I would recommend it! :)
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