Sarah hated Harry’s mother, too, implying that pregnancy forced her beloved Walter into marriage. Sarah has had a hard life, and it shows, as she teaches Harry how to churn, gather hay, and find eggs, with little patience for her niece’s longing for school, or for the colt she loves, foal of the mare who died when her mother did. Still barely comprehending her loss, she must also leave the house she and her mother shared to go live with her dead father Walter’s gruff sister. Harriet, 13, loses her mother when their horse shies from an automobile. 10-14)Ī heartfelt but awkwardly paced novel of an orphan finding her way in 1910 Vermont. (cast of characters, afterword) (Fiction.

Although not right for every reader, Jarvis has delivered a robust book with a big-canvas plot that is tailor made for lovers of fantasy adventure and animal characters. Moreover, although the simultaneously symbolic and literal three-tiered world of bats, mice, and rats is well imagined and beautifully detailed, the narrative is rather dense, causing the book’s story engine to flag at several points. Still, the characters lack that elusive quality of lovability that makes the reader care deeply about their fate. He does a good job, especially through the dialogue, of differentiating the multitude of mice, rat, and bat characters that populate the book. As the stakes rise, Jarvis ratchets up the suspense, neatly juggling several story lines that culminate in a remarkable climactic disclosure.

The battle begins when a young mouse named Audrey Brown bravely slips between the bars of the basement grate, the portal between the mouse and rat universe, to search for her father, who has met with misadventure and disappeared into the hellish world beneath. Together they fight the evil, filthy rats, denizens of the dark and slimy sewers, who are ruled by a demonic overlord named Jupiter. The side of good is represented by a society of harmonious, quiet-living mice who are aided and abetted by the more spiritual and mysterious bats above. This.Popular in England but never before published in America, the first book of Jarvis’s fantasy trilogy depicts an epic battle between good and evil.

A short little film that was a part of a longer pre-recorded assembly about reading for pleasure for World Book Day at the High School in which I work.The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis was the first installment of the Deptford Mice Trilogy was the story of a village of mice trying to live through the temptation and danger of the sewers where the deadly rats live. His first book, The Dark Portal, was short-listed for the Smarties Book Prize in England. Robin Jarvis worked in television and advertising before becoming a full-time author and illustrator. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< _The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis Ebook Epub PDF iby

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