A Company of Swans
by Eva Ibbotson
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Author: Eva IbbotsonEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-09-06
ISBN: 0142409405
Number of pages: 384
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Review: Wonderful Love Story
Summary: 5 Stars
As someone who teaches eighth grade language arts, I read a lot of adolescent lit. This one is a new favorite! In a school year full of the Gossip Girls, the Clique series, and vampire love (it's everywhere!), I found this story to be a refreshing and thoughtful alternative without losing any of the intensity of romantic love affair. The Amazon setting is unusual/exciting for adolescent readers, but they'll perhaps find familiarity in the miserable father-daughter relationship and Harriet's desire to leave. This is definitely something I'd recommend to girls who seem ready to take a break from--or even leave behind altogether--the vampires and catty school girls.
Summary of A Company of Swans
For nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is as dry and dull as a biscuit. Her stuffy father and her opressive aunt Louisa allow her only one outlet: ballet. When a Russian ballet master comes to class searching for dancers to fill the corps of his ballet company before their South American tour, Harriet?s world changes. Defying her father?s wishes and narrowly escaping the clutches of the man who wishes to marry her, Harriet sneaks off to join the ballet on their journey to the Amazon. There, in the wild, lush jungle, they perform Swan Lake in grand opera houses for the wealthy and culture-deprived rubber barons, and Harriet meets Rom Verney, the handsome and mysterious British exile who owns the most ornate opera house. Utterly enchanted by both the exotic surroundings and by Rom?s affections, Harriet is swept away by her new life, completely unaware that her father and would-be finac? have begun to track her down. . . .Fiction Books
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