the true confessions of charlotte doyle by avi

It's because 10 year-olds recognized how AWESOME it is.

There's a reason this book won a Newberry, and it's not because 30 year-olds recognized how historically inaccurate it is. The trajectory itself was the excitement! The strong-willed woman in an implausible fight against sinister forces greater than her. Ten year-old Isaiah doesn't give a damn if it's implausible that the lace-frilled, permed and buxom Charlotte reject her social mores, jump on a ship and start swabbing and mizzen yard-arming.

I also read some of the other reviews here for this book, and I have to say, on behalf of ten year-old Isaiah, that you're missing the point. And it has a heroine! And she's good for something besides good manners! Either this is way out of character for me, or perhaps as a ten year old I wasn't a cranky misogynist (unlikely). But for several years after I just started to read YA novels, I thought this book was the epic shit. I can't believe how completely I had forgotten it. (Oct.This book just flashed into my mind this evening unbidden. Never wavering from its 19th century setting, the novel offers suspense and entertainment modern-day readers will enjoy. Charlotte's story is a gem of nautical adventure, and Avi's control of tone calls to mind William Golding's 1980s trilogy of historical novels of the sea. Charlotte's repressive Puritanical family refuses to believe her tale, and the girl returns to the sea. Charlotte is charged with murder and sentenced to be hanged before the trip is over, but ends up in command of the Seahawk by the time it reaches its destination. When the crew rebels, Charlotte first sides with the civilized Captain Jaggerty, but before long she realizes that he is a sadist and-the only female aboard-she joins the crew as a seaman. From the start, there is something wrong with the Seahawk : the families that were to serve as Charlotte's chaperones do not arrive, and the unsavory crew warns her not to make the trip. She begins her trip a prim schoolgirl returning home to her American family from England. Told in the form of a recollection, these ``confessions'' cover 13-year-old Charlotte's eventful 1832 transatlantic crossing.

The true confessions of charlotte doyle by avi