goodbookgirl

3 years ago

In this chose-your-own-adventure story, you're a girl who lives in Williamsburg, VA in modern days. Your dad works, your grandmother owns an antique shop downstairs, and your mom...died of cancer. You miss her tremendously. You go downstairs to the shop and find a tiny portrait of a colonial woman. When you look into her eyes, you find yourself in Colonial Williamsburg and meet a girl named Felicity Merriman. It isn't long before you learn that you've been whisked back in time to 1775! What adventure will you choose? I used a lot of bookmarks so that I could go back to the choice after I read the other adventure. From buying goods from Native Americans to helping a sad girl to meeting Governor Dunmore's wife and children, you and Felicity will have many adventures. You'll become great friends--and she'll win a special place in your heart. If you liked this book, then you'll like the 2005 movie FELICITY: AN AMERICAN GIRL ADVENTURE. Shailene Woodley from THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER plays Felicity, and Katie Henney plays Felicity's best friend, Elizabeth Cole. In the movie, Felicity longs for more than living a proper life. Things just get more fancy when Mother and Father sign her up for tea lessons at Miss Manderly's house. However, gentlewoman lessons are not as bad as she thinks, although the has to pay a price for the joy of seeing her friend Elizabeth, a Loyalist, at lessons: spending time with Elizabeth's mean older sister Annabelle. But Felicity has other things to worry about: Mean old Jiggy Nye is abusing Penny, a horse that Felicity has come to love. Felicity sneaks out every night to see Penny, but when she shows her family, they forbid her to see Penny ever again. When Father tells her that doing a good echoes in the world and that she did all she could, Felicity realizes that there is one more thing she can do--set Penny free. Eventually Felicity gets Penny back (when she goes to visit Grandfather on his plantation), just like Father said. But, tragedy follows. Right after she stops Father's apprentice, Ben, from running away to join General Washington's army, Grandfather dies. When she returns to Williamsburg, she learns that Elizabeth's father has been arrested just for being a Loyalist. When Felicity and Father go to visit him in prison, she sees cruel Jiggy Nye in the cell with him. Suddenly Felicity feels sympathetic for him and decides she must help him get out of jail. She does so by bringing him medicine and a blanket. Soon after, Felicity gets an invitation from Lady Templeton's manor, inviting her to the Christmas Ball! Mother will make her a fancy dress, and will sign her up for extra dancing lessons at Miss Manderly's. Felicity's life seems to be coming back together...until Mother has a baby and becomes sick and unconscious. And when Father is away and Grandfather is dead, who will help Penny have a foal? Felicity might have to make a decision that will help her trust someone she never thought could be trusted.