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I Capture the Castle
Contributor(s): Smith, Dodie (Author)

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 ISBN: 0312201656     ISBN-13: 9780312201654
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1999
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Annotation: The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in an English castle, "I Capture the Castle" is as brightly witty and adventuresome today as it was when it was first published 50 years ago. Illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 97037231
Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.52" W x 8.26" L (0.71 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 47666
Reading Level: 5.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 20.0
 
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Publisher Description:

One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts

I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has captured the castle-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.

"This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met." -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series

Bonus: Reading Group Discussion Guide included in this edition

Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Dodie: - Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith, born in 1896 in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. She wrote Autumn, Crocus, and Dear Octopus, among other plays. I Capture the Castle, her first novel, was written in the 1940s while she was living in America. An immediate success, it marked her crossover from playwright to novelist, and was produced as a play in 1954. Smith also wrote the novels The Town in Bloom, It Ends with Revelations, A Tale of Two Families, and The Girl in the Candle-Lit Bath, but she is best known today as the author of two highly popular stories for young readers: The Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking. She died in 1990.
 
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