Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

Name: Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Katherine Rundell
ISBN: 9781490662497

Author: Katherine Rundell

Narrator: Bianca Amato

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/23/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Regional Stories

Synopsis

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called "a glorious adventure." Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey, and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. Lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of vicious schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? And will she have the courage to survive? From the author of the "witty, inventively poetic" Rooftoppers comes an utterly beautiful story that's sure to be treasured.

About Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), The Wolf Wilder, The Explorer, The Good Thieves, and The Zebra’s Great Escape. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

Her knees smelled the same as the air, of woodsmoke and earth. Had anyone ever been as happy as her? having loved Rooftoppers more than most other books i read back in 2013, i was completely unprepared for my very tepid reaction to this one. i'm not gonna lie, it actually broke my heart a little. bec......more

Goodreads review by Scottsdale Public Library

“If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings.” Despite her circumstances, Emily Dickinson tended to write poems of promise and assurance; One of those is titled “’Hope’ is a thing with feathers.” That Katherine Rundell has extended Dickinson’s thought to libraries being wings has every......more

Goodreads review by Diane

This is my 9 year old granddaughter's rating. Since it's written for the middle grades, I thought this would be appropriate. I read it on her advice and enjoyed it. Will is an engaging wildcat of a girl who had the freedom to do as she wished in the wildly beautiful country of Zimbabwe. Simon, her b......more

Goodreads review by Robin

A perfect little jewel of a book. Katherine describes place so well, and creates such strong characters - a phenomenal debut!......more

Goodreads review by Skip

After enjoying Rooftoppers so much, I was excited for KR's new book. The first 50 pages are full of the whimsy of her first: young white wild child Wilhemina (Will, Wildcat, Cartwheel), her great love of Zimbabwe, her black friend Simon, her foreman father and the ranch owner, Captain Browne. When h......more