mind The Gap. something Odd Is Going On In The Basement Of An Old House In London. An Inexplicable Gap Has Formed, A Gap In Time That Links The Present To The Past. And Twelve-year-old Tom, Who Discovers The Gap While On A Visit To His Grandmother, Is Torn Between Both Worlds. lured By A Mysterious Voice, Tom Leaps Into The Early Eighteenth Century, To A Time When Circus Freaks Like The Bendy Man And The Gorilla Woman Appeared At Bartholomew Fair. The Voice He Hears Belongs To Astra, A Tiny Changeling Child, Whose Limbs Are No Bigger Than A Man's Thumb. She Has Called Him Into The Past, Because She Is Convinced That Tom Is The Only One Who Can Help Her And Her Friends From Danger. Doctors Are Paying A High Price For Unusual Bodies To Dissect, And Astra And Her Friends Are Prime Subjects. but Tom Is Dealing With Difficulties Of His Own. His Mum Has Cancer And Is Constantly Fighting With His Gran. And Then He Discovers A Dark Secret In His Family's Past...a Secret That Pulls The Strands Of Time Together And Might Just Close The Gap Forever.
publishers Weekly twelve-year-old Tom Is Determined To Make The Best Of A Visit To His Grandmother's Townhouse In A Seedy Area Of London. From His Childhood Visits There, He Remembers A Gap In Her Basement, And When Tom Leaps Over, He Finds Himself In Bartholomew Fair-an Early 18th-century Freak Show Featuring Human Monsters. They Are The Target Of A Doctor Who Will Stop At Nothing To Anatomize Such Creatures In The Interests Of Science. Astra, A Changeling Child, Commandeers Tom To Help Foil The Doctor's Schemes. His Ability To Move Between Time Periods May Be Just What She And Her Friends Need. Hearn (the Minister's Daughter) Vividly Portrays The Main Characters-tom, His Mother And Astra. The Compassion Tom Feels And The Fears He Harbors For Both Of The Other Characters Drive The Plot, And Tom's Ingenuity And Humor Lead To Many Entertaining Episodes. The Author Drops Hints That Tom's Mother, Like Astra, Has Been A Victim, Of Sexual Abuse. The Lucid Prose Allows Readers To Almost Smell The Dankness Of Tom's Grandmother's Basement And To Feel The Cobwebby Nub Of A Doorhandle Or The Blistered Surface Of The Basement Door, Leading Down To The Gap, And The Dated Speech Of The Freaks Is Easily Comprehensible Through The Lively Dialogue. An Absorbing Book With A Valuable Lesson. Ages 12-up. (oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Follow Me Down

Hearn, Julie

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

United States, United States of America

First American Edition, PS, 2005

New York, New York State, 2005

"Ginee Seo Books."
First published under title: Follow me down.

subject: Time travel-Fiction; Supernatural-Fiction; Monsters-Fiction; Family problems-Fiction; Cancer-Fiction; London (England)-Fiction; England-Fiction

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1. (p1) CHAPTER 1
2. (p2) CHAPTER 2
3. (p3) CHAPTER 3
4. (p4) CHAPTER 4
5. (p5) CHAPTER 5
6. (p6) CHAPTER 6
7. (p7) CHAPTER 7
8. (p8) CHAPTER 8
9. (p9) CHAPTER 9
10. (p10) CHAPTER 10
11. (p11) CHAPTER 11
12. (p12) CHAPTER 12
13. (p13) CHAPTER 13
14. (p14) CHAPTER 14
15. (p15) CHAPTER 15
16. (p16) CHAPTER 16
17. (p17) CHAPTER 17
18. (p18) CHAPTER 18
19. (p19) CHAPTER 19
20. (p20) CHAPTER 20
21. (p21) CHAPTER 21
22. (p22) CHAPTER 22
23. (p23) CHAPTER 23
24. (p24) CHAPTER 24
25. (p25) CHAPTER 25
26. (p26) CHAPTER 26
27. (p27) CHAPTER 27
28. (p28) CHAPTER 28
29. (p29) CHAPTER 29
30. (p30) CHAPTER 30
31. (p31) CHAPTER 31
32. (p32) CHAPTER 32

theme: Time travel-Fiction; Supernatural-Fiction; Monsters-Fiction; Family problems-Fiction; Cancer-Fiction; London (England)-Fiction; England-Fiction

Mind the gap.
Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds.
Lured by a mysterious voice, Tom leaps into the early eighteenth century, to a time when circus freaks like the Bendy Man and the Gorilla Woman appeared at Bartholomew Fair. The voice he hears belongs to Astra, a tiny changeling child, whose limbs are no bigger than a mans thumb. She has called him into the past, because she is convinced that Tom is the only one who can help her and her friends from danger. Doctors are paying a high price for unusual bodies to dissect, and Astra and her friends are prime subjects.
But Tom is dealing with difficulties of his own. His mum has cancer and is constantly fighting with his gran. And then he discovers a dark secret in his familys past . . . a secret that pulls the strands of time together and might just close the gap forever.

In the basement of his grandmother's home in London where his mother is recuperating from cancer, twelve-year-old Tom discovers a path to the past where, in the year 1717, a "fairy child" and her friends desperately need his help.

2023-06-28