When Marnie Was There

by Joan G. Robinson

Book Overview

A major motion picture adaptation by Studio Ghibli, creators of SPIRITED AWAY and ARRIETTY.

Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...

Sent away from her foster home one long, hot summer to a sleepy Norfolk village by the sea, Anna dreams her days away among the sandhills and marshes.

She never expected to meet a friend like Marnie, someone who doesn't judge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007591357
• ISBN13: 9780007591350
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

One of my favourite books

I really love this book because it is about a lonely girl who learns to make friends and overcome her struggles. Inside this book is the following description: "Brooding, lonely Anna, a foster-child, goes to stay with a kind Norfolk couple. There, like something in her memory, she finds the old house backing on to the creek. But it is the girl at the window who haunts her ... Marnie, headstrong, often infuriating and somehow just as elusive when the two meet as she had been at the window. Marnie becomes Anna's perfect friend, and although she finally vanishes for good, she has helped Anna make real friends. "This is a thrilling, intense story, part mystery, part adventure, part fantasy, and will appeal particularly to girls of eleven and upward."