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Karleen Bradford is an award-winning writer of historical and fantasy fiction for children and young adults. She has authored 24 books.
Born in Toronto, Canada, Bradford lived in Argentina as a child until she returned for college. She always had a passion for writing—and reading—but it wasn’t until after she married and had children that she got the idea to write her own stories. She began writing short stories for her kids when they were very young, and as they grew up, so did her stories. Eventually Bradford started selling short stories to magazines and school anthologies. Six years later, she published her first book. Becoming a grandmother led Bradford into writing her first picture book.
Bradford taught creative writing and writing for children for many years and has led workshops and readings in schools and libraries across Canada and the U.S. She worked with children in American schools in Germany while living there and at the American School in Taipei, Taiwan. She worked as a writer in residence for the WIER (Writers in Electronic Residence) program and taken part in The Read In, a daylong international meeting on the Internet of writers and students.
With the rise in popularity of eBooks, Bradford decided to republish three of her popular young adult novels in electronic form. Since fall 2011, readers can enjoy The Stone in the Meadow, The Other Elizabeth and The Haunting at Cliff House from wherever books are sold and downloaded.
Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye for Readers' Favorite
Here is another great story from Karleen Bradford. It is as good as the other two I have read from her, although I found this one a bit slower paced than the others. It took me a bit longer to get immersed in the pages.
Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old girl, is on a school trip to a ghost town commemorating a big battle the British and Americans fought. She isn’t very keen on the facts of when and why this battle happened, a fact that she later greatly regrets.
Elizabeth goes into what was once the tavern in the middle of the old ghost town, and something happens to her. One minute she is with her friends on a school trip and in the next she is Elizabeth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frobish, in the old town just a month before the big battle.
Her brother in this time paradox has the occupation of carrying messages for the general, and she is afraid that he will be hurt and never come back. There is also something that lurks in the back of her head about this battle. It is necessary for her to remember and to tell the Frobish family, but she can’t. What was it that her teacher had said in the bus to the students about this battle?
As I have come to expect from Bradford, "The Other Elizabeth" displays good writing and great research on the war between the American and British troops. It is also a tasteful view of a dreadful time in our history. Welcome to a well-done clean story of time travel that will delight pre-teens and adults alike.
