Skip to content

Sophie Pitt-turnbull Discovers America
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Sophie Pitt-turnbull Discovers America Paperback - 2007

by Sheldon, Dyan

  • New
  • Paperback

Things turn out rather different from what she expected when teenage Brit Sophie Pitt-Turnbull takes a trip across the pond in this droll new novel by the author of "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen."

Description

Candlewick Pr, 2007. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 185 pages. 7.50x5.50x0.50 inches.
New
NZ$34.51
NZ$21.03 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 14 to 21 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Revaluation Books (Devon, United Kingdom)
The BIBLIO Guarantee | Ask Seller a Question

About Revaluation Books Devon, United Kingdom

Biblio member since 2020
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

General bookseller of both fiction and non-fiction.

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from Revaluation Books

Details

  • Title Sophie Pitt-turnbull Discovers America
  • Author Sheldon, Dyan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Pr, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Date 2007
  • Features Glossary, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0763632953
  • ISBN 9780763632953 / 0763632953
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.37 x 5.38 x 0.49 in (21.26 x 13.67 x 1.24 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 790
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Self-confidence
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

Dyan Sheldon is the author of many books for teenagers, including the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN (which was made into a major motion picture), MY PERFECT LIFE, and PLANET JANET. American by birth — and a former resident of Brooklyn, New York, where her daughter now lives — Dyan Sheldon resides in London.

Excerpt

I've always known exactly who I am. I am Sophie Pitt-Turnbull. I live with Mummy, Daddy, and my older brother, Xar, in a terraced house in Putney, London, England. Daddy writes books (novels and biographies) and Mummy is a housewife and painter (portraits of domestic animals). Although Daddy's family didn't begin to prosper until the Industrial Revolution, Mummy can trace her ancestors back to Henry II, so I was raised with a strong sense of tradition and history. "Never forget that you're British," Nana Bea likes to say, and I never have. I've always been happy with who I am. Not in a stuck-up, I'm-the-best-thing-that's-happened-since-the-invention-of-the-lightbulb sort of way, of course. More in a God’s-done-a-lot-worse-than-Sophie-Pitt-Turnbull sort of way. Even after Jocelyn Scolfield said all that stuff about me being a bit on the dull and passive side, I was still satisfied with myself. I reckoned that I'd improve with age (like wine or cheese), but I never actually expected to change. Not change so much that I could divide my life into two parts: the part with the old me and the part with the new me. But I never expected to discover America. . . .

_____________________
SOPHIE PITT TURNBULL by Dyan Sheldon. Copyright (c) 200f by Dyan Sheldon. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Kliatt, 05/01/2007, Page 28

About the author

Dyan Sheldon is the author of many books for teenagers, including the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN (which was made into a major motion picture), MY PERFECT LIFE, and PLANET JANET. American by birth -- and a former resident of Brooklyn, New York, where her daughter now lives -- Dyan Sheldon resides in London.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.