- Library Binding: 241 pages
- Publisher: Greenwillow (September 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 068811122X
- ISBN-13: 978-0688111229
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Sarah is unhappy about moving to an old house by a mill in rural Massachusetts. She feels bored and lonely even though she is surrounded by her boisterous family, and becomes interested in her new home only when she meets a strange boy named Jethro who cryptically describes the house as "the same and not the same." He speaks about the dwelling and the mill as if they were in another place, but even more peculiar, in another time. Sarah is quickly caught up in a chilling mystery which defies everything she knows about the physical world. This gripping tale interweaves the lives of four characters from three different eras--Mercy, from colonial days; Jethro, from the early 1800s; and contemporary Sarah and her foster sister Janey--and an eerie parallel emerges as their histories are gradually revealed. Levin masterfully explores the concept of time, in an illuminating blend of history and fantasy. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-9-- This suspenseful time-travel novel centers around an old stone mill and those who have lived near it in years past. Teenage Sarah and her family have recently moved there to rebuild the mill and grind flour, and she hates this spooky place where she feels watched all the time by unseen eyes. After a freak midwin ter lightning storm, she finds a strange boy by the pond. He tells her that he lived there in the 1850s as did his young friend Mercy, but in the late 1600s. Sarah slowly pieces their strange stories together, with the help of information she finds in the town's historical records, and learns about the atrocities they endured as slaves. She is intrigued by their escape through time, and, possessed by her own unhappiness, considers a similar solution for herself. As she becomes more involved with their lives, with the long history of the mill, and with problems in her own family, her own concerns fade. A sense of history, of place, and of other people's needs help her to reach out to her visitor from the past and to her own family. She gains the courage to put down roots, to begin her new life, and to experience compassion. The stories of the young people from the past are skillfully interwoven with Sarah's, and they reach a sat isfying conclusion. Attentive readers will be swept from one layer of discovery to the next in this intriguing, multilayered book. --Virginia Golodetz, St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Wow!, Oct 13 2003
By Rowena "Lady of the Forest" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mercy's Mill (Library Binding)
I bought this book because it was [inexpensive], and it looked interesting, but I never expected it to be THIS good! This book kept me riveted until three in the morning, I couldn't put it down!
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