juvenile book Quotes

A time machine catapults a twentieth-century teenager -intelligent and headstrong - to the thirteenth century. Rudolf Hefting of Amsterdam thought the was engaged in an experiment that would take him back to the Middle Age to a tournament of knights.

But by a miscalculation of the computer, he arrives in the Rhineland as the exact time that the Children’s Crusade is passing through.

“My father was always on the lookout for the short of things that would make life a bit easier for all of us. As there was never enough money to buy what was needed, we had to make the most of what we could find living around __ usually on the white man’s rubbish dumps.”

“Rocky O’Rourke is 13 and lives in the poor part of Liverpool with his mother and step-sister. ”

“Billy sat on his tricycle in the shadows of the staircase, listening to the footsteps of passers-by on the road and the rush of traffic along Catherine Street.”

″ It’s hard believe a bunch of kids could survive in such harsh conditions no matter how good they are. This is a very hostile country even for adults and even their baby sister survived in the end. Pretty corny ..

“Nicola makes an inauspicious start to her career at Kingscote School when she drops her leaving present, a penknife, out of the train and pulls the communication cord so that she can jump out to retrieve it.”

“In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I’ll either be ecstatic or a failure. Fifteen-year-old swimming champ Alex Archer has her mind set on one goal-competing in the Olympic Games in Rome.”

″ Its nature is revealed when the children are hunted by the minions of the dark spirit Nastrond who, centuries before, had been defeated and banished by a powerful king.”

“Arthur, with Merlin at his side, spends much time in the next few years building an army of loyal and heroic young men, many of them also orphaned, and fighting back the warlords who have made his country of Logres into a wasteland.”

“The five girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises. But no one could have prepared them for the biggest surprise of all!”

“Mom set a platter of fat slice of salty herring on the big round kitchen table. Uncle Hyman sniffed appreciatively. ‘Mmm! What could be better than a tasty piece of schmaltz herring? Just to smell it gives one an appetite.”

“Tired of wasting Saturdays doing nothing but wishing for larger allowances, the four Melendys jump at Randy’s idea to start the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club (I.S.A.A.C.). ”