Jones, Claudia. Riding out the storm.JONES, Claudia. Riding out the storm. Llewellyn. 234p. c2006. 0-7387-0867-4. $8.95. JS Emily Clark Emily Clark was an English novelist of the 18th century. She believed herself to be the great-granddaughter of Theodore Stephen, Baron von Neuhof, though may well have been mistaken. , adopted as a baby, is pretty sure she knows who she is. She loves riding her horse, is a good swimmer, and feels no real pull to find her birth parents. During the first day of swimming class at school, she panics in the deep end and nearly drowns, but is pulled out by her teacher. While this is odd enough, since she has never had a fear of the water, she also begins to have nightmares and odd memories about drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. and an increasingly un-explainable phobic pho·bic adj. Of, relating to, arising from, or having a phobia. n. One who has a phobia. reaction to the water. Through regression therapy, Emily discovers that her memories are real, but not her own. They are the memories of Michael, a 21-year-old who drowned in a sailing accident well before Emily was born, setting her on the search for Michael's family; and her father, who is firm in his religious beliefs, coming to grips with the possibility of reincarnation reincarnation (rē'ĭnkärnā`shən) [Lat.,=taking on flesh again], occupation by the soul of a new body after the death of the former body. . The story moves along well and Emily's quest Emily's Quest is a epistolary novel in a form of personal journal and the last of Emily trilogy by Lucy Maud Montgomery. After finishing Emily Climbs, Montgomery suspended writing Emily's Quest and published The Blue Castle to uncover her past life and the exploration of reincarnated souls keep the pages turning. There is a subplot sub·plot n. 1. A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work or film. Also called counterplot, underplot. 2. A subdivision of a plot of land, especially a plot used for experimental purposes. involving Emily's best friend, Jane, and a girl who bullies Jane about her weight, but this neither adds to nor detracts from the story. Stephanie Squicciarini, Teen Svcs. Libn., Fairport PL, Fairport, NY J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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