Charlotte Sometimes

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<p><i>'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?</i></p><p>Charlotte Makepeaces first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the routine and each other. No one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispers and giggles.</p><p>But on Charlottes very first night something mysterious starts to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school. But something has changed. Somehow Charlotte has slipped forty years back in time...</p><p>Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can learn what life was like during the First World War</p><p>Vintage Childrens Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from<i>The Jungle Book</i>and<i>Alices Adventures in Wonderland</i>to modern classics such as<i>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas</i>and<i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i></p>

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<p>Penelope Farmer was born in 1939 in Kent. She was a twin, although doctors werent aware of her existence until she was born twenty-five minutes after her sister was born. Many of Penelopes novels deal with the issue of identity and some readers suggest that this is because she is a twin. In<i>Charlotte Sometimes</i>the strange things that happen to Charlotte force her to question her own identity and ponder the possibility that it could be lost.</p><p>Penelope Farmer has written many books for both adults and children in the course of her long career as a writer.<i>Charlotte Sometimes</i>is actually the third book in a trilogy featuring the characters of Charlotte and Emma Makepeace. Penelope currently lives on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, and writes a blog under the name Granny P.</p>

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