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PaperQuake: A Puzzle (Time Travel Mystery #4)
Violet's paralyzing fear of the San Francisco earthquakes changes when her family renovates an old building. An aftershock dislodges a letter addressed in 1906 to Baby V--and Violet is certain the disturbing letter is intended for her.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 2002
by Sandpiper
(first published April 1st 1998)
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Jan 10, 2013
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I am currently reading Paperquake by Kathryn Reiss. This book is a mystery book, but it also sets back to the 1900's so I think it's also a little history. It's about three triplets Violet, Jasmine, and Rose who live in San Francisco, California. The three sisters live in an old Victorian house in modern day and where they live there are a lot of earthquakes, so when the walls start to crack open they discover letters from the 1900's. I can defiantly relate to Violet she is horribly terri...more
I am currently reading Paperquake by Kathryn Reiss. This book is a mystery book, but it also sets back to the 1900's so I think it's also a little history. It's about three triplets Violet, Jasmine, and Rose who live in San Francisco, California. The three sisters live in an old Victorian house in modern day and where they live there are a lot of earthquakes, so when the walls start to crack open they discover letters from the 1900's. I can defiantly relate to Violet she is horribly terri...more
Good romantic mystery, with a historical time-travel aspect (just through letters, not actual time travel). Violet is one of triplet girls, but due to a heart ailment she's always been the weaker, timid sister, so much so that others think her sisters are twins and she's the odd one out. She gets caught up in a mystery left behind in letters and diary pages from a girl who lived in her family's old San Francisco house in 1906. She feels a kinship with "V", this long-ago girl who was sickly and i...more
Violet is tired of being excluded: by the rest of the triplets, sisters who are blonde, while she’s dark, from strenuous teen activities by her parents, because she has heart problems. She suffers from unreasoning fear of earthquakes, exacerbated by the fact she lives in the Bay Area. Then when she and her sisters begin cleaning an abandoned building in the middle of the city she finds a series of letters that link her inexplicably with a girl with similar problems--and a similar name. She sees...more
Violet is the youngest of triplets, nearly an hour younger than the oldest, as she’s reminded at one point. The other two are identical, Violet a fraternal who looks nothing like her sisters, Jasmine and Rose. Violet wants nothing more than to fit in with her sisters but she doesn’t. She was sickly at birth and has been babied all of her life.
Violet decides to make herself more like her sisters. Their parents, Lily and Greg, are florists who are opening a new shop. The triplets go to the new bui...more
Violet decides to make herself more like her sisters. Their parents, Lily and Greg, are florists who are opening a new shop. The triplets go to the new bui...more
Apr 03, 2008
Bonnie
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Violet, the youngest of the triplets, wants nothing more than to be just like her sisters. But to the rest of her family, she will always be Baby, the one who needs looking after because of her weak heart. And, now that a series of earthquakes is hitting the Bay Area, she’s the one that’s terrified of quakes. However, when each quake hit, Violet receives a mysterious message written during the months surrounding the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Each letter takes Violet a step closer to solving...more
I read this book in middle school and loved it. I was just getting into historical fiction books at the time and although "Paper Quake" isn't set in the past, it has plenty of letter snippets written at the time of the big San Francisco Earthquake.
I read it a long time ago so this review is a little dated, but this is what I remember. Although I liked hearing about the main character Violet (who feels very lonely despite being a triplet- her sisters are often thought to be twins, leaving her th...more
I read it a long time ago so this review is a little dated, but this is what I remember. Although I liked hearing about the main character Violet (who feels very lonely despite being a triplet- her sisters are often thought to be twins, leaving her th...more
I liked this book so much, that I stole it from my teacher (to be fair, I didn't realize it till a year or two later when I saw the book had my teacher's name on it...oops). However, I read this in 4th grade, and to any time travel history aficionados, y'all will LOVE this book (it's geared toward young adults). I've read it about 4 times, which is the most I've read for any novel that's not Jane Austen. It's stuck with me all these years and I still remember it as if I read it last week!
I'm continually amazed at how stupid my brain is. It really is incredibally stupid. It must have seemed like I read this book for the first time to my senile brain. I picked up so many new details that I couldn't remember from last time, and my brain had even altered the storyline. It was crazy. I really liked what she had to say about the past could model the future but it didn't control it. Anyway. I really liked how Violet was born in San Francisco but she was afraid of earthquakes. So ironic...more
this book is about a girl violet and she has had way to many problems in her past with her heart. she almost died and now she has to deal with her sisters who she looks nothing like and there triplts and not at all alike. but when the all go to clean their new house Violet sees some thing strange. a letter from a man named hal it seems to be written to her! the problem is its date is 1906. the letters and news articles keep coming with every earthquake and she finds that there is a pattern that...more
This book is awesome! It takes place in Berkely/San Francisco so if you live there you really few the setting of the book. In the book there are numerous earthquakes that happen all leading up to what scientist say will be a "big one". The only thing is the author makes it sounds like earthquakes happen all the time there and they dont.
May 15, 2011
Jessica
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes mysteries and timetravel
Recommended to Jessica by:
library
This was a good laid-back sort of book. The plot was complicated enough to keep you reading, the characters were easy to connect with, and the story itself was entertaining. Sometimes I forget how refreshing a mystery novel can be in the midst of all the intracite thriller novels I've been into these days. Definately a great book I'm glad I picked up.
Violet is the third triplet who doesn't look like the other two. She was ill as a child and doesn't feel like she fits in. After she discovers an old letter seemingly addressed to her, Violet is drawn into a mystery that spans a century. Violet's sisters and friends must help her before tragedy strikes again.
When Violet finds secret letters from the cracks of the walls letters from the past all form together to make a secret that only four people know of: her two sisters and a boy named Sam. When she risks her life to save many other people, she learns that not all stories can have a happy ending.
Fiuuh... bolak-balik nyari terjemahannya dengan judul 'Time travel Mystery : V for Violet' gak ketemu juga, ternyata ini judul aslinya. Mungkin karena saya penggemar cerita science fiction bertema time travel, jadi saya sangat suka cerita ini.
I enjoyed this book far more than I thought I would; it was given to me for free in sixth grade after completing the school's annual 'reading program'. It never got boring for me, and the storyline is great.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! Many people haven't heard of it, but it is intriguing and mysterious! It's about a link between past, future, and earthquakes! It's really cool and I've read it many times!
I'm a huge fan of Paint By Magic and found myself pretty disappointed in Paperquake. I found the teen dialogue to be kind of forced and shallow and I thought the plot moved very slowly.
I did think at first it was weird and not my type of book. But I came to find that it was an excellent book. Don't judge a book by it's cover!
When I first started this book I thought it was really good. But as time went on, it started to become a bit boring and Vi was getting annoying. In the end, it was an OK book.
This book is amazing so far and a great mystery it has. I'm reading this for school and I'd reccomend you to read it too.
it was great mystry to read it has alot of history in it too but ya i loved it.
As a wee kiddo this was one of my favorites. I really love the way the story is woven as Violet uncovers pieces of the past through letters hidden in an old building her family has purchased. Between the letters, the dreams she is having, and things shared in common between the past she uncovers and her present, Violet recieves a message that she is brave enough to act on.
However, now that I've done a re-reading, the writing is not too impressive and Violet as a character is super annoying. Ie,...more
However, now that I've done a re-reading, the writing is not too impressive and Violet as a character is super annoying. Ie,...more
Very good book with very interestring plot
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This is a great book for super stitious people.
Eh. Nothing special.
I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!
A very good book!
per aurelie
like her other book, i luved the history lesson in it :)
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Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel.
Ms. Reiss has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a re...more
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