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Fifteen-year-old Laurel Mawston has just moved to the Mississippi River town of New Madrid with her parents and brother when disaster strikes. A series of terrible earthquakes devastate New Madrid and the land around it, tearing up trees and altering rivers, wrecking houses, and injuring or killing people and animals. Laurel and her family find themselves living outdoors, working to save their animals and their home. Through weeks of hardship, Laurel discovers that challenges can bring people together in unexpected ways. Join Laurel as she relates this exciting and touching story of adventure, newfound love, and courage during a little-known episode of American history.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 4-7-Laurel, a shy 15-year-old born with a harelip, lives on a farm near New Meridian, MO, in 1811, and worries that she will never marry because of her deformity. Her 17-year-old brother Jed doesn't get along with their father and is in love with a girl in town who favors a widower, Roberto. Some people are predicting the end of the world because Halley's Comet can be seen in the sky, and on December 15th, the first of several violent earthquakes hits. Crofford tells about the devastating effects of the quakes over the next few days. Told in third person, the book has a formal style that distances readers from what could be an exciting story. It also has the feel of a longer account that has been chopped up and shortened, with odd transitions. While the passive Laurel may be believable, she is not very interesting. A final chapter truncates too easily what could have been promising plot developments: the family leaves New Meridian, Jed's father begins to treat him like a man, Roberto asks Laurel to marry him, and Jed finds another girl. Give readers a nonfiction book about the earthquakes that may have reached 7.5 on the Richter Scale instead of this mediocre piece of historical fiction.-Sally Bates Goodroe, Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
The lives of fifteen-year-old Laurel and her family are turned upside down during the destructive series of earthquakes that shake New Madrid in the Louisiana Territory in 1811. This historical event could have made for an interesting novel, but shallow characterizations and an underdeveloped plot make the book seem more like a rough draft than a finished work. Laurel's romance with an older neighbor is particularly unbelievable. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Crofford (A Place to Belong, 1994) sets her newest historical near the banks of the Mississippi during the earthquakes of 181112earthquakes so violent that thousands died and, at one point, parts of the river ran in different directions. Despite rumors of some very odd animal behavior, Laurel Mawston has no idea whats coming when she sees the ink in her inkpot moving. But later that night she, her parents, and her older brother Jed suddenly find themselves forced out into the yard, surrounded by whatever possessions they could snatch, to watch their barn and other buildings fall while the earth bucks and heaves. The shocks dont stop after a day or two either, but are still coming at random intervals weeks later, culminating in one so massive that the nearby town of New Madrid has to be abandoned. Crofford ably captures the terror and uncertainty of the times, plunks down quick romances for Laurelwho makes the pleasant discovery that, despite what shes been told, her harelip is no obstacle to kissing, or marriageand Jed, and wraps up the aftermath in a long postscript. Engrossing fare for fans of disaster tales, American history, and slender books. (Fiction. 9-11)