Ebook {Epub PDF} The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner

 · The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner review – a time-travelling Dickensian saga A huge cast and a complex plot make for an original tale about how adults fail Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. I read "The Door That Led to Where" enthusiastically but at the end I got kind of bored and it's a story, I'm sad to say, wil Very thankful. This is my second Sally Gardner novel I read, "Maggot Moon" being the first and I have the same feeling reading "The Door That Led to Where"/5.  · The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner - review. 'I was pleasantly surprised by Gardner's ability to create an accessible yet intelligent and Author: Ellaclaire.

Sally Gardner, The Door That Led to Where A key to a secret door. How much more clichéd can you get? Combine it with time travel and there is no way at all to avoid walking in a dangerous area. The Door That Led to Where. AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change - but he could never have imagined by how much. I first encountered Sally Gardner's writing when I read I, Coriander, winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize. Since then, Sally has written prolifically for young adults, with Maggot Moon and Tinder garnering particular acclaim, so I was really please to get the chance to read and review The Door That Led To Where.

Buy ebook www.doorway.ru Praise Gardner pulls off a brilliant balancing act as her flawed hero travels between the two periods, discovering that, sometimes, a fresh start in a new environment can restore and heal those whose future — or past — looks hopeless. In Printz honoree Gardner’s (Maggot Moon, ) time-travel historical mystery, year-old white Londoner AJ Flynn, having passed only one of his qualifying exams, faces a bleak future until he discovers a door to the s and the possibility of a different life in another www.doorway.ru’s mom considers him “a waste of space," his drunken stepfather is “a huge, blancmange slug of a man," and all he knows about his father is that he is dead. Gardner creates a world where a door that connects the present to the past seems believable. She anchors each version of the city using the appropriate landmarks of London, past and present. The characters feel universal, and many teens will be able to connect to their hopes and dreams.