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Fair Weather
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Item Description...
Overview
Set at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Rosie gets her first taste of big city life as she, her siblings, and their grandfather attend the big event where they soon meet famous people, share an exciting experience, and take in all the wonders the fair has to offer. Reprint.
Publishers Description
Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of the age"-a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair. Aunt Euterpe is inviting the Becketts to come for a visit and go to the fair Award-winning author Richard Peck's fresh, realistic, and fun-filled writing truly brings the World's Fair-and Rosie and her family-to life. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 160
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 5" Height: 7.5"
Weight: 0.3 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Puffin
Age 9-12
ISBN 0142500348
EAN 9780142500347
UPC 051488005995
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Availability 21 units.
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 | wonderful book for all ages.. Aug 15, 2007 |
| This is supposed to be a kids book, but the whole family liked it so well that I bought a couple more copies to give away. It is about a rural family going to the Chicago World's fair in 1893. The descriptions of the fair, and the characters in this book are delightful. Highly recommend. | | |  | Interesting, yet Boring Apr 27, 2007 |
Open this book and you'll read a story of a young girl with her family, going to new places, and changing her widow aunt's life forever. From Richard Peck, the creator of the Newberry Medal-winning novel, A Year Down Yonder, comes the just as popular, Fair Weather. Using the famous Chicago World's Fair with legends like Buffalo Bill and the beautiful Lillian Russell and a mix of a fictional family, Richard Peck made an exciting historical fiction novel. He truly wrote a story that shows the advance of technology during the 19th century. Many inventions from the typewriter to the zoopraxiscope and even the Ferris Wheel are included in this book. He integrated many inventions. Also, he showed the emphasis on the use of technology, mainly electricity. If you want to read a fascinating book about technology, inventions, or even on the many fashions from the 19th century, you should pick up this novel. Fair Weather is a very appealing book, but it was boring in the beginning. Then again, most books are boring in the beginning anyway. Fortunately the book has an ironic, but still happy, ending that makes up for the beginning. Also, Fair Weather has exciting details throughout the book that will keep you interested. For me, Fair Weather was the best book that I have read in a long time.
- James Nguyen
Sorry if I posted this twice, I can't find my first time.
| | | | Interesting, yet Boring Apr 27, 2007 |
| Open this book and you' ll read a story of a young girl with her family, going to new places, and changing her widow aunt's life forever. From Richard Peck, the creator of the New berry Medal-winning novel, A Year Down Yonder, comes the just as popular, Fair Weather. Using the famous Chicago World's Fair with legends like Buffalo Bill and the beautiful Lillian Russell and a mix of a fictional family, Richard Peck made an exciting historical fiction novel. He truly wrote a story that shows the advance of technology during the 19th century. Many inventions from the typewriter to the zoopraxiscope and even to the Ferris Wheel are included in this book. He integrated many inventions. Also, he showed the emphasis on the use of technology, mainly electricity. If you want to read a fascinating book about technology, inventions, or even on the many fashions from the 19th century, you should pick up this novel. Fair Weather is a very appealing book, but it was boring in the beginning. Then again, most books are boring in the beginning anyway. Fortunately the book has an ironic, but still happy, ending that makes up for the beginning. Also, Fair Weather has exciting details throughout the book that will keep you interested. Fair Weather was the best book that I have read in a long time. | | | | Fair Weather Apr 26, 2007 |
Fair Weather
The author of Fair Weather is Richard Peck. Richard Peck is the celebrated author of over thirty novels. He's won a Newberry Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newberry Honor for its prequel, A Long Way From Chicago, and a Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adults literature. In 2002, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the president and First Lady Laura Bush. Richard Peck grew up in Decatur, Illinois, and now lives in New York City.
This book was a Historical Fiction book that contained a lot of authentic information. I researched on the, internet, some of the tools and inventions that were in it and found out that, yes, they had been invented around 1983, which was when the book took place. I did some research on the ferris wheel, the zoogyroscope, and the picture postcard.
I liked Fair Weather because it was interesting and made me want to read on. I also liked that it was about a different time period than the one that we're living in today , which allowed me to learn about how things were back then. I liked that it was a Historical Fiction book and it was educational and good to read at the same time. I also liked how the Chicago World Fair was so accurately described and how it was an adventure story. This book helped me learn some things about my topic, but there weren't as many tools and inventions in it as I had expected there would be. I would reccomend Fair Weather ,however, to those who enjoy books that are full of historical events and that are about adventure.
-Fernanda | | | | Fair Weather Apr 25, 2007 |
Fair Weather
The author of Fair Weather is Richard Peck. Richard Peck is the celebrated author of over thirty novels. He's won a Newberry Medal for A Year Down Yonder, a Newberry Honor for its prequel, A Long Way From Chicago, and a Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adults literature. In 2002, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the president and First Lady Laura Bush. Richard Peck grew up in Decatur, Illinois, and now lives in New York City.
This book was a Historical Fiction book that contained a lot of authentic information. I researched on the, internet, some of the tools and inventions that were in it and found out that, yes, they had been invented around 1983, which was when the book took place. I did some research on the ferris wheel, the zoogyroscope, and the picture postcard.
I liked Fair Weather because it was interesting and made me want to read on. I also liked that it was about a different time period than the one that we're living in today , which allowed me to learn about how things were back then. I liked that it was a Historical Fiction book and it was educational and good to read at the same time. I also liked how the Chicago World Fair was so accurately described and how it was an adventure story. This book helped me learn some things about my topic, but there weren't as many tools and inventions in it as I had expected there would be. I would reccomend Fair Weather ,however, to those who enjoy books that are full of historical events and that are about adventure.
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