Book Description

At first Eliza is happy with her new life at boarding school, settling into the Yellow Dorm, making new friends, learning the rituals of school life and doing well in her classes. But a bond begins to develop between Eliza and Helen, a mischievous, unpopular girl who defies authority, plays practical jokes and doesn't seem to care what others think of her. It is Helen who starts the daring game among the first girls in the Yellow Dorm. ... Read more

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Superb!
After buying and enjoying "The Guests of War Trilogy" first, I went out and bought The Daring Game without hesitation when my family was vacationing on the Gulf Islands last month. I was so lucky that I got the an autographed one. Basically the whole story is about 12 year old seventh grade student named Elizabeth Norah Chapman who got her with after desperatly wanting to attend a boarding school after reading many books about children her own age and younger who attend one. Eliza excepts a normal peaceful school but those thoughts crumble after her roommate Helen Beauchamp starts the daring game involving her other roommates, Pam, Carrie, and Jean a.k.a. Eliza Doolittle(Eliza), P.J.(Pam), Turps(Carrie), and Scotty(Jean). Pearson's firt novel had me enthralled and I would recommend this to anybody who likes nonviolent books and also boks about school and getting into serious trouble. Excellent!:)

Ashdown Academy
This is a book about life in boarding school. Elizabeth Norah Chapman is going to Ashdown Academy, a boarding school where boys are forbidden, for the school year. As soon as Eliza meets Helen, a sneaky, mischievous girl,the story takes off. Before I read this book, I thought boarding schools were only for boarders. When I read "The Daring Game", I thought, "What? You can go to a boarding school without boarding? That's outrageous!" But this book was so good, it only took me three days to finish. I definitely recommend this book for girls interested in boarding school.

Extreamely Well Written
Theis book was so good. It's about a girl named Eliza who goes away to boarding school for a year and becomes friends with a mischeviouse, unpredictable girl in her dorm. And it is they who start the daring game. This book was so good. I think you should read it.

A wonderful book
"At first Eliza is happy with her new life at boarding school, settling into the Yellow Dorm, making new friends, learning the rituals of school life and doing well in her classes. But a bond begins to develop Eliza and Helen, a mischievous, unpopular girl who defies authority, plays practical jokes and doesn't seem to care what others think of her. It is Helen who starts the daring game among the five girls in the Yellow Dorm..." The Daring game is a truly wonderful book that is "tender, often funny, sometimes blessedly pensive and always perceptive". So do yourself a favour and read it.

Dares, Dares, DARES!
Elizabeth Chapman enters her new life in boarding school. She settles in the Yellow Dorm meeting new friends: Helen, Carrie, Pam and Jean. At first, she enjoys her life in the Yellow Dorm. Until one day, Helen thinks the Yellow Dorm is too boring. So she starts the Daring Game. A game full of dares and tears. The first dare was for everybody. Helen dared everybody to have a feast in the middle of the night. At first everybody disagree, but they still did it which got them in to a lot of trouble until Helen dares the second dare......... ... Read more

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When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends.

When she arrives at the cottage, her worst fears come true: her cousin Kelly teases her; Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug feel sorry for her. She doesn't fit in.Then Patricia discovers an old watch hidden under a floorboard. When she winds it, she finds herself taken back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve ... ... Read more

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Another masterpiece by Kit Pearson
Kit Pearson Manages once again to write a emotional and descriptive book which draws you in from the start. This is a book about a 12 year old Patricia Potter who is sent away to live on a lake for the summer with her Aunt Ginnie and Uncle Doug along with cousins her own age so that her parents can work out the details of their divorce without Patricia present. Patricia's never gone camping before, never swum in a lake, never paddled a canoe, and never cleaned a fish, and also her greatest fault: she's not good at making friends. As soon as she arrives, she is labelled as a crybaby, suck-up snob, and a wimp and her cousins despise her and tease her with stingy nicknames such as Potty, and Pee Pee. Then Patricia unexcpectedly finds an old pocket watch in a cavity under the old wooden floor in a cabin named La Petit and she travels 35 years back in time where her own mother was 12. Once again, excellent description and a good summer read for children aged 10 to 13.

One of the best!
A Handful of Time was one of the most interesting, awesome books I have ever read by the best author! Patricia finds a old watch and goes back to the time when her mother was a kid. Extremly good.

BEST BOOK EVER!
You will never look at an old watch the same way again. Read this book: this author is amazing, a page turner and characters you will care about. Well done (again) Kit Pearson!

A Handful Of Time My Thoughts
A handful of time is about a girl named Patricia who has to go to her aunt's cabin for the summer.When she gets there she doesn't like her cousins and her cousins don't like her.So one afternoon she comes across a cabin.She goes in there and she finds a watch under her floor boards and starts playing with it.Her aunt says that she needs to know how to row a canoe so her couisin Kelly teaches her.She doesn't want to learn , and she is also not doing to well.Patricia is a girl who hides in her own world.In this book you will learn alot and Patricia achieves alot.When you read this book you will see if she comes out of her own world,learns how to row a canoe and find out if she will like her cousins.So be sure to read this book to find out what happens to Patricia.

Great
This is a very well written novel. Personally I loved it. The plot, makes you never want to put the book down so you can find out want happens in Patricia's mother's life. Patricia finds a broken watch and uses it to magically travel back into time to watch her mother grow up. Patricia learns more and more about her mother as the plot un-ravels ... Read more

Book Description

Based on historical events, this moving fictional account of the adventures of two English children in a foreign land has become a favorite among Canadian children-this award-winning trilogy is now available in this omnibus edition.

This unforgettable trio of novels by award-winning author Kit Pearson is composed of The Sky is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go On Again. The character at the heart of these stories is Norah Stoakes, a young English girl who is sent by her parents to Canada, along with her younger brother, during the Second World War. After five years pass, Norah is comfortable with her new life and country, but when the war ends her brother, Gavin, is reluctant to return to England and to parents he can barely remember. ... Read more

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The greatest book!!!!!!!!!!
This IS the absolute best book ever you have to read it!!!

This book is a 5 star rating because it is the BEST!
this book is suitable to readers 12-16 as it is so down to earth and you can really feel Norahs feeling towards her cousin! I love the way her Aunts nag her and tell her about the pains fo growing up. I reacomend this to 12-16 year olds because i feel you need to be near her age

Awesome
Looking At The Moon Is a wonderful tale of a young girl going throug hard times in her life. Norah a young war guest is spending the summer at her guardians summer house. There she learns many things about herself and about the war. She also falls in love for the first time, and finds out how hard it is to be in love. This is a WONDERFUL book. Also you should read the first on The Sky Is Falling, and the last on The Lights Go On. It is a WONDERFUL Triology ... Read more

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Don't waste your Money!
This book sucks big time!A cheap story plot, combined with events that just don't seem good enough to be put in a novel - puh lease!The only good thing about this book is all the morals it teaches.Even then, the book isn't all that hot.

The Sky Is Falling.
Norah and Gavin ,two english war guests,Are living with Florence Ogalvie and her daughter Mary.Aunt Florence is a little ignorant to Norah.Aunt Florence adores Gavin though.Aunt Mary is very nervous of her mother,she cares for Norah because Aunt Florence refuses.Gavin starts to get used to the Olgalvies.Norah wishes that she had stayed home in England.What ever will happen next?

Hmm.....
I had to read this book for reading class. At first I thought, I really hate history and I don't want to read this. Then I started to read it and then I thought ok, I don't like it that much. Personally, I didn't enjoy the book as much as I thought I would, and I wouldn't read the sequals because I didn't like the first book. I wouldn't give this book a 0, and probably not 1, but a 3 would be WAY to good for this book, so I'm giving it 2 stars. I do not reccomend this book if you don't absoulutly love history! Best novel ever!!:)
The Sky is Falling is one of my favourite novels!
It is about a ten-year old girl named Norah. She is living in England in World War II. Her parents out of concern for Norah's and Gavins (Norah's younger brother)well-being, send them on a ship to Canada to live with a canadian family until it is safe to come home. Norah protests, and is angry since she loves the excitment of the War, her friends and family. Both Gavin and Norah end up going to canada, and staying with "aunt Florence" and "aunt Mary" who took them in. "aunt Florence" loves Gavin and he is the center of everything, norah is not popular and things go down hill quickly. It is an incerdible story, that is worth every second of your time! You won't regret reading it!!!!:):)

a must read
only the first book in a trilogy, "the sky is falling" is definitely a book to pick up and read. the lives of norah and gavin stoakes and their journey to canada is an extremely well written and touching story. once you finish this book, the other two ("looking at the moon" and "the lights go on again") are also must-reads! kudos to kit pearson, these books are brilliant! ... Read more

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Theo has always dreamed of belonging to a real family. Her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously "adopted" by the warm Kaldor clan. For the first time, Theo has brand new clothes, things of her own, security, and good friends. But, as time passes, the magic of Theo's new life begins to fade--really fade. In fact, Theo herself is vanishing....

"Deftly weaves fantasy and reality together into a charming novel...Intriguing from start to finish." --School Library Journal ... Read more

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The lights go off...
Obviously the last book in "The Guests of War Trilogy", it's also the least of them all. I mean, GOD!. Gavin is a total mess in this third installation, I remember that scene from Looking at the Moon where Norah opens up a letter from her parents and their parents said congratulations on your excellent school marks. Give me a break! Gavin said himself at the near end that he only got good marks on socials and english. Good? Good is C+. Some good grades. Also, Norah is entirely left out and the whole book focuses on wimpy Gavin who's such a crybaby. This book has bad words such as damned, and bloody and I wasn't at all swept into Kit Pearson's spell. Worst of all, this book totally lacks description and the dialogue is really corny. How many times did Gavin have to repeat that He was evacuated to Canada to be safe from the war? What kind of War!?!?!?? Kent wasn't even bombed in the whole war and there wasn't a war in england. Just a few minor air raids. I didn't like Gavin's friends either. Gavin said one tiny thing and the broke up like a piece of straw. I hate to say this, even though Pearson is my favourite author, this is not one of her best works. A major disappointment. Read A handful of Time, Awake and Dreaming, The Daring Game, The Sky is Falling, or Looking at the Moon, but not this.

Really good
This book is just as good as the first two(The sky is falling and Looking at the moon). Kit Pearson sets just the right moods for them. Like when Norah was sad when a certain part happened and Gavin was so confused. I like the way on how she focused on Gavin instead of Norah. Gavin is much more imaginative, shy and cowardy than Norah ever was. I'd give this book 10/5 stars because it was so well wrought. A very satisfying end to a great series!

best book ever
I recently read the "Guests of War" trilogy which has all the books("The sky is falling","Looking at the moon" and "The lights go on again" all of which are awesome incredible super duper books). My personal favorite was this one. I believe that these books are 15 times better than Harry Potter wich is awesome too. I would enjoy it if Kit Pearson would write one or two more books. One about the lights go on again but in Norahs perspective and also what happens when they grow up, like if Gavin moves to Canada,what happens between Gavin and Eleanor, if John and Norah get married, what happens when Andrew tells them that he's going to take acting, and whether the cousins(Janet, Flo and Clare)keep in touch with Norah. If I were Roger Ebert I would give it 1000 thumbs up way up. I would recomend it to anyone and evryone. They should read it no matter what! Thank you

Another well written book by Kit pearson
The Lights Go On Again By Kit Pearson was on of the most heart touching books I've ever read. It was a very realistic but sad way to end Norah and Gavin's story. ... Read more