 | | |
| The Root Cellar (Puffin Books) | 
 enlarge | List Price: $3.99
Buy New: $0.01
You Save: $3.98 (100%)
Buy New/Used from $0.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 38 reviews)
Sales Rank: 960863
Category: Book
Author: Janet Lunn
Publisher: Puffin
Studio: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Label: Puffin
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140318356
EAN: 9780140318357
ASIN: 0140318356
Publication Date: April 2, 1985
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 great book! December 4, 2008
I read this book probably 10 years ago or more and can't wait to read it again! Loved it!
Excellent! We couldn't put it down! September 3, 2008
I was very surprised with some reviews that appeared to be by adults. This is a book for children and teens, and adults who enjoy light-hearted children's stories; it is not for adult reading groups! It was so enjoyable we couldn't put it down, and read it in 7 1/2 hours. We enjoyed it so much more than Tom's Midnight Garden. We are looking forward to reading more books by this author.
We homeschool, and this book helped recreate the civil war in a more personal manner. But it is not a sad book. It also isn't all about the civil war - in fact, that is only a small portion of the book. It is a slice of life, from two different time periods - 1866 and, since the book was written 1981, the second time period would probably be the 1970's. The ending is neither disappointing nor sad. Enjoy!
 Not great. June 14, 2006
Janet Lunn has won The Mark of Canadian Best Seller Award, and the CLA Children's Book of the Year for the Root Cellar.
Rose, who is 12 years old, has no mom or dad. Her grandmother who took care of her dies of a heart attack. Soon after her grandmother's death, she moves into her cousins' house where she discovers a secret root cellar. This cellar takes Rose back to the year 1862 where she meets Susan and Will, her new friends. Rose finds out that Will has joined the Civil war with his cousin Steve. During the war, Rose and Susan get worried because Will has stopped sending letters. Thinking that he is hurt, Susan and Rose go on a dangerous journey to find him in New York. Their adventures are filled with passion, companionship, struggle, many hardships, and surprises.
Reading The Root Cellar was exciting, with many interesting cliff hangers, and character struggles. You never know what will happen in the next chapter. Each new chapter brings a brand new twist. However, Janet Lunn's writing is sort of off topic at times. Some times a chapter will give you something that you think is clue. But as you read on, you get to realize it is a completely pointless chapter. This is the reason why I mainly didn't like this book. But I would suggest this book to people who like historical fiction because I learned about the Civil War.
Opinions on The Root Cellar June 14, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Janet Lunn lives in Southern Ontario, the setting of her CLA award winning book "The Root Cellar". In the book, there was a mysterious cellar which Rose was able to use to travel through time back to the American Civil War. The main characters Rose, Susan, and Will are great friends. Will left to help the North in the war, Rose and Susan decided to look for Will even though they don't know where he was. Rose and Susan met each other and went through many tough situations and adventures during the journey to find Will. I think Janet Lunn is a very skillful writer but the style she writes just doesn't interest me. Somehow when I read the book, it made me feel like the story was rushed and having many random events thrown in the book. I lost interest while reading the book. It might be a good book for other people but I like my books with more actions and adventures. The book was pretty well written but it wasn't the kind of book that I would want to read. So if anyone out there who is about to read this book and likes action, I suggest you to think it over about reading it.
The Root Cellar June 13, 2006
The Root Cellar is a book by Janet Lunn, an award winning author. Janet Lunn has really unique ideas, and I really like the fact that she is Canadian and she incorporates some facts about her home in the book. She places the setting in Ontario, which is where she lives. In an interview, she tells the readers that her house is what inspired her to write the Root Cellar. In the novel, Rose, the main character, moves to her aunt and uncle's house when her grandmother dies. When Rose finds a root cellar, she goes in and when she comes back out, she finds out that she has traveled back to the time of the Civil War. Rose finds out from Susan, her friend from the 1860's, that her other friend, Will, has joined the war. When the war ends and Will still doesn't return home, Susan and Rose set out on a long and challenging journey to find him.
Janet Lunn's style of writing is distinct because she likes to give clues to make the reader predict what is going to happen next. This was fun to do because there were so many possibilities, but in the end, those clues didn't turn out to be very important. If Janet Lunn and made some sort of connection with the clues she gave the reader to the book, the book would have been much more fluent. Besides the fact that Janet Lunn gives a lot of random clues, she is a really good author because when she wants to describe something, she makes it very detailed so you can picture what she is trying to describe in your head.
Overall, the Root Cellar is an average book because even thought she stretched out the beginning by adding too many clues and unnecessary events, I like her descriptive style of writing and I love her ideas, so yes, I would recommend this book to those who don't mind a slower beginning, but they love an intense and well written ending.
|
|
|
(C) 2006 Meta-Earth.com. All rights reserved | | |