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As in the previous novel, the three children get separated, though they end up working their ways back to one another over the course of the adventure. Alex in particular, who is alone in the antebellum American South, has difficulty coping with moral quandaries of the time. Also like the first book, the children must solve a mystery with implications for the present, and they once again receive help from quirky Dr.
Harrower, who pops up throughout the story to help them and offer clues. Furthermore, the professor remains a bit undeveloped: She brings her setting vividly to life and clearly conveys the specific pitfalls of the time period. Bad enough that they and their dorky new friend Brandon became reluctant time-travellers to World War Two England. Oh, sure, they made it home safely just but now things are about to get worse. From the cotton fields of the Slave South to London's glittering Crystal Palace, the kids chase a lost piece of twenty-first century technology in the mid-nineteenth century.
But finding it is only the beginning of what they must do to heal Time.
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Praise for Annette Laing's Snipesville Chronicles We eagerly await future volumes. Georgia Library Quarterly Brisk storytelling, likeable characters, and a great plot. Becky Laney, Becky's Book Reviews I learned more in this extremely entertaining page book than in [my] plus page history book and history class. One person found this helpful. I first read the Snipesville Chronicles around this time last year, and as the holidays are a time for getting together with friends and loved ones, it seemed a good time to re-read the series.
I've always loved historical fiction, but I don't recall feeling any great connection with the books that were available when I was young, which is not the case with this series. The well-drawn characters and vivid descriptions of historical settings captured my imagination thank goodness this book is part of a series and not a one-off! Historical details are woven seamlessly throughout the book, prompting further research my younger self would have used the family encyclopedias, but as an adult I can can drive myself to the library or place an order on Amazon.
One of the three main characters, Hannah, has also been a cause for further reflection. The author made a bold choice in her characterization of the moody, entitled Hannah. She's not always easy to like, but she's always real, and her growing pains are identifiable. The life lessons Hannah and her companions, Alex and Brandon, learn in this book are ones we all need: I must admit, while I love all the books in the series, A Different Day, A Different Destiny may be my favorite; it's a book I needed when I was younger and continue to need as an adult.
Laing has done it again! She's managed to cram a whole lot of information into an entertaining story with a bit of actual danger thrown in this time and created a dizzying web of characters connected to each other, the characters in the previous book, and Hannah, Brandon, and Alex's present day lives. Some of these connections are pretty obvious the Gordons that Hannah lives with are the grandparents of Mr.
Gordon from the first book and a young girl in Balesworth who is the spitting image of Verity turns out to be her great-grandma , but that certainly didn't detract from their stories. And most of the connections I didn't see coming until the series of big reveals toward the end. I think that's the most amazing thing about these books for me: Hannah, Brandon, and Alex thought they had things bad in WWII England, but their experiences in the last book are nothing compared to what each of them goes through in In , all three of them are considered adults, expected to earn a wage and take care of themselves.
They each have to deal with this realization and figure out how to make their own ways and survive before they can even begin to think about how to find each other and get back home. The way that the book shifts between their stories was very clear and easy to follow. And for anyone like me for whom the year doesn't ring a bell, they are doing this all in the midst of preparations for Prince Albert's Great Exhibition and a growing disapproval across England and Scotland of the lingering institution of slavery in America.
Alex, still in Snipesville, comes face to face with slavery. As he travels to Savannah looking for work, he is accompanied by a slave, Jupe, who is about his age. No matter how he tries to treat Jupe as an equal, Jupe never opens up to him or fully trusts him. Alex does manage to keep Jupe with him by lying about who legally owns him, keeping Jupe from being arrested, punished, or sold because he ran away.
The situation with Jupe is complicated by the fact that Alex genuinely likes his employer, even though Mr. Thornhill buys and sells slaves in the course of his land sale transactions.
The question of how otherwise good people could participate in or even condone slavery is never answered here, which is probably as it should be. Hannah and Brandon are free from the emotional and intellectual turmoil that Alex must endure in Instead they're both left in horrible working and conditions by their trip back in time. Brandon "comes to" already in the pitch black dark of a coal mine and eventually makes his way back to Balesworth. On the way he lives in a workhouse, becomes a professional mourner, and is, once again, a novelty to those around him.
People assume that Brandon is a former slave, especially after he tells people that he was born in America. Many people, especially the upper class women, want to know Brandon's thoughts on the subject and want to hear all about his experiences. The fact that he has to fabricate these experiences based on what he learned in history classes doesn't seem to bother anyone.
Hannah has the most tumultuous time. She's forced to be a piecer in a mill, first cotton and then jute, and earns pennies a week. She's fired twice and almost starves to death in between.
She has a lot to complain about, but what Hannah is the most worried about is her lack of shopping opportunities. Her attitude is, once again, off-putting for most of the book. At some point during her ordeal, it seems like Hannah may be learning something from the life she's living.
She makes friends and finds herself in a family; she agitates for workers' rights to hang out in the park and gives an upper class woman who lives off mill profits the scare of her life by walking her through a tenement neighborhood. Still, as soon as she is rescued by the Professor and given a fancy dress and a bit of pocket money, all those hard-learned lessons fall right out of her head and she goes shopping. I also learned a lot about the working class in the British Empire during the Industrial Revolution and British involvement in the American Abolitionist Movement.
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