Somewhere Around the Corner

By Jackie French

Book Overview

Historical fiction for young readers. Barbara meets an old man at a wild demonstration who tells her to walk around the corner and arrive at a better place. The place is 1934, the height of Depression... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805038892
• ISBN13: 9780805038897
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Great book, about the depression

This is a story of a girl lost in the world of today, without a soild family. It is perhaps fear that makes her "step around the corner" into the 1930's, at the time of the depression in Australia. There she meet Young Jim, whose family takes Barbara in, even though they are poor. Here Barbara learns what it is like to be loved, and to love in return. THis is a great book, and I love the feel of the 1930's, French writes it so well!

somewhere around the corner

I think this is the best book that i have read and i would suggest anyone reading it. please read it

SOOOOOOO CREATIVE!

I can't tell you all how much I LOVE this book! It was sooooo touching! I laughed alot of times and cried at the end. But don't get me wrong this book wasn't sad at all, it was so touching and sweet. A perfect ending. This book moves at a fast pace. I fineshed it in a couple of hours! READ THIS BOOK!

greatest book ever

thiis book was the best book i have ever read i think it should be around for many years to come it is just a bit to hard to find.i think it should be a compuslery book at high school's

THE SADDEST, FUNNIEST STORY EVER

I love it! Abolutely! I cried, I laughed, I read it again. The description of the depression days, the Australian bush, the ol' billy and hessian bag windows in Young Jim's family's shanty in Poverty Gully to which Young Jim flees with Barbara too. Lonely, 1990s Barbara. In the world of jeans and sportsgirl and makeup and discos. Plummeted into the dark depression world. But not everything's so bleak. Over Barbara's time living with Jim's family, they accomplish some wonderful things... until it takes a natural disaster to get 'Bubba' back around the corner again... The best book I've ever read. I loved the end, but it was a tear-jerker, when she and Young Jim are reunited, then only perhaps two or three years apart, now more than sixty. I could cry now! I LOVED IT!