This is a review for Girl Sailing Aboard the Western Star which I was sent a copy of in exchange for this review. The thoughts in this review is mine and mine alone.
Charlie and I are reading Girl Sailing Aboard the Western Star for our Reading Class and will be learning about Sailing in our Homeschooling classes this week.
I chose this book because it tells the story of a young girl living on a ship and I knew the storyline would capture mine and Charlie’s attention and keep Charlie from getting bored and not wanting to finish the book.
We will also be drawing the boat in this book for our Art School project this week. I found a lot of words Charlie didn’t know which can become our Spelling words for the week.
Annie is the same age as Charlie and I am going to have Charlie write what he thinks would happen to him if we chose to live on the Sea for a year and what type of boat would we have.
Preview:
Atlanta, GA, April 14, 2020 — The year is 1979, and 12-year-old Annie’s life has been upended. Her parents have announced that their home for the next nine months will be a 53-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean.
The thought of leaving behind her pets, friends and a life she loves—plus coexisting in close quarters with her older brother—has left Annie spiraling through a kaleidoscope of emotions.
Heartbroken at first, Annie turns to writing, and through her detailed journal of daily life aboard the Western Star, she reveals a remarkable transformation.
Girl Sailing Aboard the Western Star is the engaging, poignant result of Annie’s chronicle of her family’s adventures in the Atlantic. Readers get to experience through Annie’s eyes the raw, unfiltered angst of a girl on the cusp of being a teenager, as she grapples with feelings of isolation, resentment and uncertainty.
Page after page, hints of new awakenings rise to the surface, as Annie learns how to trim the sheet, raise the main sail and navigate using a sextant.
She also learns about the stars and constellations and about the amazing creatures living under the boat. The journal takes readers along as she snorkels, scuba dives and jet skis her way through The Bahamas, the Caribbean and the Virgin Islands.
Drawn directly from Anderson’s real-life story of living on a sailboat with her family, this charming coming-of-age tale shares Annie’s day-by-day emotional evolution, as she discovers new worlds above and below the deep blue sea and lives the adventures of a lifetime.
Author RA Anderson is a wanderer who has lived all over, from California to Belize, and currently, home is a town called Rome, in Georgia that is! She grew up on horseback and sailboats—“the most amazing way to grow up!”
A lifelong passion for creative writing and photography became her life. Her award-winning photographs have been featured in table books, magazines and front-page news, and her writing has been published in magazines, poetry books and children’s books. Her children’s series include If Pets Could Talk and Iceland: The Puffin Explorers.
Three boys—her heart and soul—call her Mom. She and her husband—whom she calls her “strength and passion”—are recent empty-nesters, leaving them more time to travel.
For more information, please visit ra-anderson.com, or connect with her on social media at Facebook @ra_anderson_author Instagram;
@aruthanne Twitter.
Girl Sailing Aboard the Western Star
Publisher: My Favorite Books Publishing Company, LLC
Release Date: January 1, 2020
ISBN-13 9781950590032
ISBN-13 9781950590117
Available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
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About RA Anderson
RA Anderson is a wanderer who has lived all over–from California to Belize–and currently, home is a town called Rome. She grew up on horseback and sailboats–“the most amazing way to grow up!”
A lifelong passion for creative writing and photography became her life. RuthAnne’s award-winning photographs have been featured in table books, magazines, and front-page news, and her writing has been published in magazines, poetry books, and children’s books. Including: If Pets Could Talk Series and Iceland, The Puffin Explorers Series. Coming soon, Girl Sailing, Aboard The Western Star (YA).
Three boys–her heart and soul–call her Mom. She and her husband–“my strength and passion”–are recent empty-nesters, leaving them more time to travel.
“My life is full, colorful, and exhausting, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. However, people seem to think my most impressive accomplishment is that I know how to work the manual settings on a DSLR camera!”
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
