The Way to Sattin Shore
by Philippa Pearce
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When a tombstone with her father's name suddenly disappears from the graveyard, Kate, an English school girl, witnesses the unraveling of a mystery surrounding the death of her father.Tags
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Beautifully written, just not quite my cup of tea. Within the mystery is a perfect story about family and about growing up. Some children will probably love it, but not those with short attention spans. It's not difficult, it's just quiet; more subtle than 'in your face' like so much popular children's fiction. The ending, the loose ends beyond the big climax, is handled brilliantly and unexpectedly.
I actually highly recommend it to anyone interested, and will probably be thinking about it for a while - but I just can't give it the same rating as all my other 4 star books. Sorry.
I actually highly recommend it to anyone interested, and will probably be thinking about it for a while - but I just can't give it the same rating as all my other 4 star books. Sorry.
Kate, a sensitive ten-year-old, lives with her mother, brother and grandmother in a peaceful home. Then a letter is delivered that changes all their lives. The story is told through Kate's eyes combining everyday events with more exciting and mysterious ones. Well-written and very readable.
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Ann Philippa Pearce was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England on January 23, 1920. She studied English and history at Girton College at Cambridge University. After graduating, she worked for the Board of Trade, then the Ministry of Information, before moving to the BBC to write scripts for the Schools Broadcasting Department. In 1958, show more she left the BBC to work as an editor for the Clarendon Press before becoming a children's book editor at Andre Deutsch two years later. She became a full-time author in the mid-1960s. She wrote more than 30 books including Minnow on the Say, A Dog So Small, The Children of the House, The Elm Street Lot, The Squirrel Wife, The Way to Sattin Shore, Emily's Own Elephant, Freddy, Old Belle's Summer Holiday, Here Comes Tod, and The Little Gentleman. She received the Carnegie Medal for Tom's Midnight Garden in 1958 and the Whitbread Prize for Bubble and Squeak in 1978. Tom's Midnight Garden was adapted for radio, theater, television, and film. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1997 for her service to children's literature. She died after suffering a stroke on December 21, 2006 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Way to Sattin Shore
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Catharine Tranter
- First words
- Here is Kate Tranter, coming home from school in the January dusk - the first to come, because she is the youngest of her family.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .P3145 .W — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English, Finnish, Italian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 20
- ASINs
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