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![]() I got a kick out of Jace shutting her down each and every time she came after me with her petty shit. I don’t think Mandy’s responsible for half the things he does, but I do know she’s dangerous. The way he stands over me, makes me feel protected, loved. And since I don’t want him to go there either, and get himself in trouble, I’ve been semi pretending that I don’t know what’s what. I know that if I show the slightest inkling of what I truly feel he’d freak. I’ve been keeping things under wraps because of Jace. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of her and whoever else she has helping her messing with me. Me, I was wondering what kind of hell that monster was going to unleash on me next behind this. Still, it was hard to tell with these people what was real and what wasn’t. I’d seen her more than once giving Mandy some not very pleasant looks behind her back, and she’d tried to step in once during cheerleading practice before being shut down by Mandy. ![]() Except the Kelly girl who wasn’t even sitting at their table. Mandy’s crew were the only ones not saying much and in fact were looking like they wanted to disappear through the walls. ![]() Cassie dug into her lunch with gusto and there was no question that she was thrilled with this new turn of events. ![]() Some people were loud in their opinion, even people you never heard a peep from usually. ![]() ![]() She gets trapped in the past with the Bow family who are from Orkney and are blessed with a gift for seeing across time and space. Abigail is from the present day Sydney (Late 1970s) and stumbles into the past into colonial times. It combines magic realism with historical fiction to create an enthralling world. Playing Beatie Bow is set in Sydney, in the historic Rocks district. Over a period of many months we snuggled together, often with my 5 year old son as well, as I read it aloud. I remembered loving the story but couldn’t remember much of what happens, particularly the old Orkney speech and the historical aspects of daily life in Sydney in the 1800s. My 7 year old daughter was reading Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park and not understanding a lot of it. ![]() ![]() Book Review – Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park – 5 stars ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” -Eric Foner, New York Times Book Reviewįrom renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history “ Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives. makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” -Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal ![]() |