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(3.88) | 9 | Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.… (more) |
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O, my love’s like a red, red rose,
that’s newly sprung in June;
O, my love’s like the melody
that’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
so deep in love am I,
and I will love thee still, my dear,
till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
and the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will love thee still, my dear,
while the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee well, my only love!
And fare thee well awhile!
And I will come again, my love,
tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
Robert Burns, ‘A Red, Red Rose’  | |
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For Helen
Time and change shall not avail
to break the friendships formed | |
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‘You’re a brave lassie.’ | |
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Scottish river mussels are not like the little ones you get in the sea, , or find scoured as blue and white shells along the tide line. [They were] as long as my hand , and nearly as wide, narrowed in the middle like fiddles.
It was smooth and brown as a leather billfold, and it opened like a hymnal. I couldn't see anything that looked like a pearl, though the inside of the shell was beautiful. I held the two halves spread wide on my palms while Mrs. McEwen slid her thumbs under the shell's luckless inhabitant - but there was nothing in it but a gray blob of dying mussel.
I felt sad, all of a sudden - not about there being no pearl, but about us having killed a wild thing that had been minding its own business in the River Fearn for a hundred years or more. (p. 90-91) "Now the summer's in its prime
Wi' the flowers sweetly bloomin'
And the wild mountain thyme -
"-All the moorland is perfumin', Ellen joined in.
We finished the verse together, and sang the whole thing at the tops of our voices, scaring birds. We walked side by side on the track over the moor that was ours by right of our being there, singing to the sky and the wind. (p. 151) "We don't mind about keeping things," Ellen said. "If you give a Traveller girl a ring, she'll wear it until some other girl admires it, then like as not she'll give it to her friend. For love. For the pleasure of giving. Because what's the point in just having? If I give a thing, I'll remember how happy we both were when I made the gift." (p. 158-59) ... injustice [to Travellers] ... in being denied high school exams. I tried to imagine Ellen's lifetime spent enduring such an endless string of insults and violations. You'd have to have such certainty in your own self. You'd have to be so strong." (p. 205) | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources.  Wikipedia in English
None ▾Book descriptions Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she experiences firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to—a stark contrast to her own upbringing—and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travellers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight. Amazon | |
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