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Jan 26, 2008

Anthony rated it:

OK, this book is the subject of my new personal crusade. It's the greatest completely unknown book aimed at the "Young Adult" group. My 3 brothers, 2 sisters and I all grew up loving this book and read it many, many, many times. It was a really big deal when we discovered Alibris and we all bought used copies to give to our kids. NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT ROBIN HOOD. It's a ghost story, historical mystery, romance, character study with parallel stories set in the American Revolution and mi More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Lynn rated it:

This is as light-hearted a ghost story as you probably can find. When Peggy Grahame comes to live at her ancestral seat in upper New York state, she keeps bumping into the spirits of her ancestors from the Revolutionary War. They're all likable enough, and not the least bit scary. They're simply there to tell her their humorous love stories from the war — and to make sure she doesn't miss her own chance at romance. This isn't quite in the same vein as The Perilous Gard, but it's a fun read, More...

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Mar 15, 2011

Eggletina rated it:

Fun book about a recently orphaned young woman (Peggy) who is sent to stay with her fussy guardian, Uncle Enos, at the ancestral home in New York. The Grahame family is a bit strange. At least one in each generation seems to be visited by the ghosts in the house, and Peggy soon begins to learn the stories of her ancestors who participated in the American Revolution (the stories of the ghosts are actually more exciting than the modern day thread). This is a good historical adventure for the juven More...

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Jan 13, 2012

Indiana rated it:

The book opens with orphan Peggy Graham on a lonely train ride to upper New York state, to live with her great uncle at the historic family manse, Rest-and-Be-Thankful. There she meets her eccentric uncle who is obsessed with anything historical, an English scholar who her uncle will have nothing to do with but she is rather attracted to and...and assortment of relatives who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War (i.e. ghosts). This was a rather hard book for me to get into once I hit t More...

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Dec 23, 2011

Kate rated it:

I enjoyed Pope's other novel, the Perilous Guard, so much I wanted to read all her other books. When I first read the description I was somewhat put off by the whole "ghost" aspect of it. It sounded weird. However, I finally did get around to reading it and found I liked just as much if not more than The Perilous Guard. The story is completely compelling, especially the ghosts' stories had me unable to put this book down. I love the cat and mouse (or more like cat and cat) relatio More...

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Mar 08, 2011

Eva rated it:

Pertama2, gue harus akui... gue masih lebih suka Percy Jackson ketimbang I Am Number Four. Serius. Jangan tertipu premisnya yang terdengar seperti teenager sci-fi action story.
Terus terang gue agak keberatan dengan pemilihan judulnya yang sangat maskulin sehingga tidak terlalu pas menggambarkan isi bukunya, untungnya mereka nggak bohong dengan bilang cerita ini merupakan penerus jejak Twilight Saga di ringkasannya.I Am Number Four... in fact, is the next Twilight Saga. Porsi romannya sangat More...

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Nov 06, 2009

Brandy rated it:

Honestly, if I all I had known about this book was its premise I probably would have disregarded it as silly and never read it. However, it was written by Elizabeth Marie Pope and as I love The Perilous Gard I gave it a go. And I am so glad I did.

The book is about a girl named Peggy who has just been orphaned and comes to live with her uncle at her family's ancestral estate in upstate New York. During her first meeting with her uncle he loses his temper and kicks out a perfectly More...

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Oct 20, 2009

Megan rated it:

A light ghost story set in modern times with flashbacks to the Revolutionary War. Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is sent to live with her uncle at the family estate called Rest-and-Be-Thankful. The estate is rumored to be haunted, and shortly after arriving at Rest-and-Be-Thankful Peggy has her first encounter with one of the estate's ghosts. From the ghosts Peggy learns about her ancestor Richard's attempts to capture the notorious Peaceable Sherwood, a British sympathizer who was stirring up More...

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Mar 08, 2011

Emily rated it:

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Feb 18, 2010

Ellen rated it:

The Sherwood Ring is an historical novel wrapped in a ghost story. While I enjoyed the Revolutionary War intrigue, I kept thinking that the author could have framed the story better. The contemporary heroine, Peggy, is sent to live with her autocratic Uncle Enos, whose obsession with his distinguished lineage leaves him no time for the newly orphaned ward who comes to live with him in his colonial era home. Instead, Peggy learns some interesting family history from four dearly departed ghosts More...

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Dec 30, 2011

Barbara rated it:

Alternating between the modern day and Revolutionary War New York: 4 ghosts comfort a modern, unloved, girl with stories from their lives during the Revolution. In the modern era, our heroine copes with a curmudgeon of a guardian and a romance with the scholar from England. Absolutely first rate all around.

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Jan 29, 2011

Allyson rated it:

I read this one in middle school sometime and I always remembered it, along with another of the author's books, The Perilous Gard. I remember liking this one better because it was not as scary as the Gard.

So now I've read it again and I can see why I loved it so much in middle school; it's got romance and is just a really good yarn. Of course, reading it now as an adult female in the 21st century I'm slightly appalled by the heroine's goofiness and lack of brains, especially as she is More...

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Aug 31, 2011

Hannah rated it:

The Sherwood Ring, by Elizabeth Marie Pope, is an exciting historical fiction novel for readers grades 5-7. Peggy Grahame moves to her family’s ancestral estate in New Jersey after her father dies. Her new guardian, Uncle Enos, is too busy with his scholarly research to pay any attention to her, so Peggy becomes friends with a handsome British scholar named Pat. Peggy discovers that her uncle’s old house is full of mysteries--and ghosts. Together Peggy and Pat learn the stories of four unforgett More...

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Mar 28, 2010

Margaret H. rated it:

I am so pleased that the Simmons Library has a copy of this floating around on the day I lost my other book. It's been a good few years since I read it, and I had vivid memories of some great scenes. Thrillingly, they were just as charming as I remembered. The ghosts that haunt Peggy's ancestral home, Rest-and-Be-Thankful, have the most wonderful story to tell of wily British spies, noble Colonial soldiers, and star-crossed love to tell, and it's all related with ample wit and charm. Peggy's own More...

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Jul 17, 2008

Debbie rated it:

One of my all-time favorites from childhood. My girls and I read this together, and loved it. A very romantic tale based in Revolutionary War times.

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Apr 03, 2010

Susan rated it:

This is one of my all time favorite children/young adult books. I've always loved the Colonial/Revolutionary time period, and this one brings one small part of it to vivid life. The reminiscences of the characters show just the kinds of things people in that time period went through during the war, without getting into things that alot of young people would find boring or disturbing. I've always liked the way the ghosts of her ancestors appear just when she needs them.

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Dec 03, 2008

Jenna rated it:

I didn't expect to like it-- being historical fiction and all-- but I thoroughly fell in love with Peaceable Drummond Sherwood. I wasn't even that into the modern part of the story, or really any of the others from the past, for that matter, but I find it impossible to express how many times I would've died to be the clever Barbara Grahame, just for Sherwood. Picture him like Robin Hood, only more evil, self-serving, clever, romantic, and with more flair. <33333 Friends, before you start beat More...

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Jul 19, 2007

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Aug 20, 2011

Ashley rated it:

I read this whole book in one day. It was a very interesting story, well thought out, and well executed.

I will say that I didn't particularly enjoy the character of the uncle. After he got so sick and he seemed so easily startled throughout the whole book, it seemed odd that he had lived alone for so long; it didn't seem like he was able to take care of himself.

Okay, I'll be honest, the thought that a girl who has just come to a new house to live with a grumpy uncle bec More...

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Jan 10, 2011

MB rated it:

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Jun 13, 2011

Linda rated it:

Ooh, I really liked this book. It took me back in time, twice! Actually three times, because it felt like something I should have read back when I was younger - and I could have, had I know it existed, because it was published in 1958. Even so, the story is a very entertaining and charming tale, even today, over half a century later.

I would call this a very charming, cozy, likeable story, a very nice change of pace from the current YA fare if you happen to need a cleansing of the pa More...

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Mar 24, 2011

Lee Anne rated it:

Peggy Grahame is orphaned at seventeen, and heads with ambivalence and perhaps a little apprehension to the family New England mansion to live with her withdrawn Uncle Enos, who is obsessed with keeping Rest-and-be-thankful as close to its condition during the Revolutionary War as possible. But before she even arrives at the house, she gets lost in the woods and is given directions by a girl in a red cloak on horseback, who disappears before she can thank her. Peggy quickly discovers that t More...

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Dec 08, 2010

Mariel rated it:

I'm rather surprised by the seemingly lukewarm reaction to Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring on goodreads. It isn't a perfect book, sure, but the charms far outweigh minor dragging by time's end. At least it did for me. I related to the belonging nowhere feeling. Pope's only other work, The Perilous Gard, is absolutely perfect in my eyes. I had hearts in my eyes, all the same. A young teen travels to a relative's and discovers the wonders of history when she befriends three ghosts. That More...

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Dec 07, 2010

Kermit's BFF rated it:

The Shwerwood Ring is probably one of my favorite books of all time, arguably passed up only by the Bible and The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Newly orphaned Peggy Graham has lived her entire life 'staying out of the way.' With her Father's death, she is sent to live with her Uncle Enos at the family's ancestral estate RestandBeThankful. Almost immediatly she is caught off-guard by the strange place: a mysterious young woman, the strange behavior of her uncle, and the handsome young historian More...

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Jul 02, 2010

Holly rated it:

At the death of her father, newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is sent to live with her reclusive Uncle Enos, whom she’s never met, and who lives at the family’s ancestral estate in New York, a place her father’s never mentioned. Apparently it is haunted by the Grahame Revolutionary era ancestors, and Enos is bitter they’ve never appeared to him. But before she can even reach Rest-and-be-Thankful, a mysterious jewel-eyed girl in a crimson cape directs her to a young British scholar that will show her More...

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Dec 28, 2011

Miriam rated it:

For years I was convinced I had read this book. Then I saw the plot description of an orphaned girl sent to live with her eccentric uncle -- not what I was remembering at all! Eventually I tracked down a copy and began to read it. Soon I began to suspect that I had indeed read it before, and two thirds of the way through -- Barbara's story -- it was confirmed. This was the book I had been thinking I had read! Only it consists of 5 interlinked stories, only the third of which was memorable to me. More...

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Jun 23, 2008

Renee rated it:

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Jul 19, 2011

Emily rated it:

I used to read a lot of Historical Fiction, and now that I've read this book I realize I need to get back into it.

This book was absolutely brilliant. Elizabeth Marie Pope is a genius. She goes back and forth between present time and the Revolutionary War, slipping smoothly between each of the stories wonderfully. She ties them into each nicely, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. (Helped make the time pass quickly on my recent trip to New York.) Hope that the author will come with another More...

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Feb 07, 2009

Miss Clark rated it:

A good read, with interesting characters and a swiftly moving story. My complaint is that the historical portions were of far more interest and immediacy than the 'present' time or the characters we were introduced to in that period. They all fell pretty flat and I found myself wishing it had been a story solely about Sherwood and Eleanor and Barbara and Richard during the Revolutionary War and what happened to them! With that in mind, the ghost angle seems very contrived and I think it would ha More...

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Jul 02, 2008

Liz rated it:

The Sherwood Ring has the beginnings of a typical Gothic novel. A recently orphaned girl, Peggy, is sent to live at the family's ancestral home when her father dies (her mother died when she was a baby). Uncle Enos is the proud holder of the family's history and traditions. He is very angry when she first comes bringing in Pat, a young man who gives her a ride from the train station. He dramatically orders Pat away from the house and commands Peggy not to see him again.

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