| Anna Sophia Lockwood is a typical teenage girl who just got out of school for the summer. Her boyfriend Sean isn't the romantic type and has never even said, "I love you." to her. She goes to Stratton Point where Sean is to tell him that the party at the beach for the beginning of summer will start soon and she wanted him there. While he was working on a car, she walks into the old mansion and looks around. All of a sudden she feels a falling sensation and then it was like she was only half there. She could hear harps, pianos, and violins playing music, she saw sun coming through the windows and bumped into someone.
When he comes into full view, Hiram Stratton, Jr. talks to her. She is frightened and runs down the stairs and out of the house and gets onto her bicycle and starts to ride away. Her skirt flies up and he is surprised by how she is dressed. No lady in the year 1895 would dress like that and have their legs showing. Finally, Strat was able to catch up with Annie and they went to the beach and sat there. That was where Annie had learned what year it was and they learned each other's names. Harriet Ranleigh was in the mansion in a tower, spying on Anna Sophia and Strat. She was deaestated when she saw the two being so open with each other and touching each other. That day a servant, Mathew had been killed. That evening there was to be a party. Hiram Stratton, Sr. Strat's father told Strat to stop fooling around with Ms. Lockwood and to go to Harriet. He ignored what his father had told him and stayed with Annie the whole time. Devonny Stratton, Strat's younger sister called the police. She felt bad for Mathew's family and wanted to know who killed the kind servant and why. In the library, Mr. Rowwels proposed marriage to Harriet and she accepted. She thought now that Ms. Lockwood had Strat's eyes fixed on her, she would have no chance at marrying whom she loves and thought that marriage to someone she didn't love would be better than no marriage at all. Mr. Rowwels turned out to be Mathew's murderer and Annie ended up going back to her own time, in 1995. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - very upbeat FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past Time Travel: - largely backwards/past Romance Yes Romance plotlets: - love triangle/polygon Spying & Investigations Yes What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal) Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Time Travel story? Yes Descript. of chases or violence - 10 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20 % Story largely takes place in - Middle Ages-1899 Main Character Identity: - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen If magical mental powers: - teleportation Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 40's-50's Profession/status: Eccentric: Yes How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Dumb Setting Earth setting: - 20th century - 19th century Takes place on Earth? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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