Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Silver Crown, by Robert C O'Brien
I just started a book called The Silver Crown. It is about a girl named Ellen whose family died in a fire one day, her birthday. She decided she would live with her aunt in Kentucky. But she was in New York. She decided to hitch hike. Ellen rode with a man that was also going to Kentucky. He kept on saying strange things about the crown that she had. She found it on her pillow the morning her family died. But she wasn't in the house during the fire, and she still had the crown. It was all she had left. When the man started talking about the crown, she knew that something was up. She hadn't even mentioned the crown. Ellen knew that the crown meant something, it was a sign that she was in trouble, being followed, or wanted by some one. She immediately jumped out of his car and ran off into the woods. That is how far I have come, and it already sounds like it will be a great book. I highly recommend it. It is very descriptive and well written. I am already attached to it.
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Wow Fiona! I think I just found another great book to read! Your wording was so great and you really explained what has happened in the story so far. It seems like a good, mysterious and exiting book, but if I read it and it is a cliff-hanger, I will be so mad! I just hate the suspiciousness of a good mystery, especially when there isn't an her book after it. When you finish, let me know! So far though, it seems like a book that the reader just won't be able to put down!
ReplyDeleteI remember reading this book - I didn't know quite what to expect because I had read O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. I liked this book but it was a little creepy (if I recall). The silver crown is amazing but there seems to be something dangerous about it.
ReplyDeleteO'Brien is the kind of writer that doesn't stick with a single genre (I've read one other of his as well).