Another Shore

by Nancy Bond

Book Overview

Seventeen-year-old Lyn, working in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia, suddenly finds herself transported back to 1744, when the French inhabitants are at war with England. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689504632
• ISBN13: 9780689504631
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Is there a sequel?

I found this to be a great novel, a little hard to get into, but once I got going found it pretty cool. What annoys me is that this book seems (to me) that there should be a sequel!

Good story

This story just draws you in. The book is a little slow at first, but I've read it several times and I really enjoy it. The historical accuracy is astounding. I like the way the author has Lyn react with situations she's not used to (ex.bathing). This is a good book that I really recommend.

Very sad and touching.

She will never go back. She will remain Elisabeth of Louieburg, Canada in the eighteenth century for the rest of her life. She will marry an American which her 'father' disapproves of and go to America. She will never go back. Never. Never...................... A sad tale of loss and survival, courage and heartsickeness. The saddest Nancy Bond I have ever read. Not for young children, but for young adults, a novel which broadens their palette of tastes. I am 11, I read it first when I was 7, and hated it. Now I think it is a poinient tale of love and loss. It's a very sweet story, but you must be prepared for the sadness.

If you can find this book, READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the best books I've ever read--and I've read a lot! Seventeen year old Lyn travels back in time to 18th Century Louisburg, and is assumed to be a local girl, Elizabeth. Living Elizabeth's life, she struggles to get along in this time period and also figure out what happened to her. It is a most enjoyable book, and it's a shame that it's out of print. I was fortunate to stumble across it at one of my local libraries. If it's ever reprinted, you can be sure I'll purchase it in a hurry!

This is a well-envisioned, mature, somewhat somber book

Nancy Bond, who has always been dependable fordetailed background landscapes, proves she cando timescapes just as well. Captures the spooky feeling of "museum villages" perfectly. A bit dark for some young readers because she avoids the conventional time-travel happy endings.