Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection)

About this book

A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. Its natural to feel a little out of place when youre the new girl but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school shes baffled: everyone thinks shes a girl called Clare Mobley and even more shockingly it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clares. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think shes slow the other girls find her odd and as she spends more and more time in 1918 Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesnt figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term she might never have another chance.