Bring Back Yesterday

By Harriet Sirof

Book Overview

When Lisa's parents die in an airplane crash, Lisa must go to live with irresponsible, unpredictable Aunt Alice. Grief-stricken and miserable, Lisa is transported back in time to Shakespearean... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595131476
• ISBN13: 9780595131471
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

It was pretty good...

I think Bring Back Yesterday was a pretty good book because it's very descriptive. I liked how the author wrote, "Her clothes always looked like she didn't own an iron." I would recommend this book to those of you who like to read books on Shakespeare or time travel. It's a very imginative and fascinating book.

Reads like a diary

This is one of my core favorite books. I can't say it is my favorite because of others like The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Ray Bradbury sci-fi, & Michael Crichton thrillers; that's the stuff I like. If you liked Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, either you will hate it or just find it diferrent. Hatchet was a physical survival novel, this one is on emotional grounds. Bring Back Yesterday reads like this girl's diary. Lisa, the main persona, is real, intense, anything but flat. She is not average, so she required out-of-the-box thinking on the author's behalf to discover her reactions. She is a loner at school, rather quiet & very imaginative. In some ways she is like me, so it reads as another way my own life could have been written. It is very "relatable". The word applies so well it warranted to be made up. The plot starts with 4 year old Lisa being a full time playmate with her imaginary friend Rooji. Life came second. However, in second grade she becomes preoccupied with school, & Rooji slipped out of her life for years. Then both her parents are killed in a plane crash around 8th grade. She is at first not devastated, but numb. With this sedation for her logical brain, Rooji reemerges as a consolation. Rooji exists in Shakespeare's era, a cousin of Will Shakespeare himself. Rooji is outspoken, brazen, daring, and lively. She is Lisa's opposite (or another part of herself, depending on whether you're willing to take a flight of fancy), but these opposites attract. At first Rooji & her world are an escape, but things heat up in Rooji's life in parallel degrees to Lisa's life. Soon she is blinking in and out of two exciting, dangerous worlds which both need her attention Now. As I said, this is a solid book I return to like a friend.