by Ruth Park
An Australian YA book from the 80's, this was a RL book club read. Though not science-fiction so much as historical time-travel, the book feels akin to the Australian equivalent of A Wrinkle in Time. Abigail is an unhappy 14 year old, bitter and bratty after her parents' separation. She spends t...
10/12 - I loved this book as a 10-year-old and one small detail has stuck with me over the nearly 20 years since I last read it, and that was the significance of the crocheted yoke. I couldn't remember any other part of the story except that the yoke sent Abigail back in time. Often when I re-read...
Abigail Kirk wasn't Abigail really, she had been christened Lynette. She changed her name when her father left her family. During one summer she finds herself playing a game "Playing Beatie Bow" with some younger children and when she goes chasing after the Beatie Bow she finds herself in part of ...
It looks like I’ve got a really good start, this year, in catching up with the Aussie lits. This is another classic which pretty much everybody has read but me! Seriously, looking at the cover, I thought it’d be something creepy (a quote at the back of the book reads, “It’s Beatie Bow – risen from...
A time slip adventure in which a modern girl slips back to early Syndney to a family for whom she is t fufill a prophesy and save the family line.
Abigail is dismayed to learn that her mother and father are contemplating getting back together and moving to another country to make a fresh start. She can’t understand why her mother would agree to take her father back, after he left her mother and the family for a young woman he met at work. Then...
I still love this book (it has been my fourth time now). Abigail is a kind of anti-heroine, but her personality is interestingly multi-faceted, Beatie and the rest of the Bow Family are so entertainingly vivid and Abigail's time-travel-experience is believably painted in loving detail (up to the acc...
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