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 m More...

Whoever it was who highly recommended this book on Amazon's Listmania, THANK YOU! I loved this book and immediately went out and specially ordered my own copy after I'd finished the library's, because I knew I'd be reading it again and again. This book would probably be billed as a YA fantasy because of the 'ghosts' in it, but it's really more like historical fiction - with a twist. Three of Peggy's ancestors appear to her at various times and tell her their stories, all of which take place duri More...

I like Elizabeth Marie Pope's writing. This was quite different to The Perilous Gard, but nonetheless it won me over quite thoroughly. There's a bit of the same thing in it that I enjoyed so much in Mary Stewart's work -- an old fashioned air that somehow promised everything would come right in the end.

It unfolds at its own pace, so be prepared to be patient even when things seem thoroughly obvious. There are strong and capable female characters, which helps, but the changing point of view does More...

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 mid-twentieth c More...

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...

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...

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) relationship between P More...

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 besa More...

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 nice young man More...

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 tro More...

Wow! the Revolutionary War and ghosts in a romantic novel. I must admit that children's literature is not always my favorite thing to read. I understand that this is technically a YA book, which i think I skipped in my formative years. With that all being said and my own weaknesses in reviewing a book in this genre I will give my complaints.

This story is to have taken place in Orange County, New York. So what one may ask, but have spent time in that place and even took my first 41 college credit More...

I'm happy to say this book definitely held up to all my wonderful memories of it. I credit this book for my love of American history, especially the Revolutionary War. I first read it in about 5th grade and then proceeded to read it at least once a year. Same thing goes for her other book The Perilous Gard. If you loved The Witch of Blackbird Pond, you'll enjoy these books. All three of these were favorites of mine during childhood. All have wonderful heros that I fell in love with at a young ag More...

3.5 stars
The Sherwood Ring is lightweight historical fiction set in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War, which may sound like a rather dry subject, but it never is with Pope telling the story. She roots everything in human experience and her greatest strength lies in her characterization. Her four main Colonial characters, Dick, Barbara, Eleanor, and Peaceable, are all wonderful, each with a distinct and vibrant personality.

Peaceable Drummond Sherwood especially is an absolutely More...

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 wh More...

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.

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 hearing s More...

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...

Better than okay, but a little disappointing, too. Peggy is a very boring narrator (no personality, no friends), so fortunately not much of the story is told through her. The Revolutionary War story of Dick and Barbara Grahame and Peaceable Drummond Sherwood is where the real story lies-- is this framework the best way to tell it? I guess it's nice that Peggy's present-day situation mirrors the war-time story, but it's also pretty contrived. I did enjoy the book, but probably not enough to recom More...

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.

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.

I recommend this book to an More...

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...

This book is about a girl who is visited by a series of her ancestor's ghosts who share their story with her and in turn help her discover a story of her own. I loved the story the ancestor's told. The characters were great, very easy to fall in love with, and I loved learning a little bit about the history of the times. However, I didn't really care for the story of the girl herself and would have preferred the author just leave that whole part out and write a complete story just based on the R More...

This is one of those books I read on a whim. Basically, I had no other books to read (very rare in and of itself!) and this one was suggested for those who liked Mara, Daughter of the Nile. So, I picked it up at the library, slightly concerned I wouldn't like it because of the "ghosts".

It's one of my favorite historical romances ever!

The Sherwood Ring starts off with Peggy. Peggy has an unremarkable background. When her father dies, she moves in with her uncle. Her uncle, a modern day scrooge, b More...

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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 because she is alone in the w More...

I thought the general structure of the story was very interesting: ghosts share little bits of their pasts to teach the main character various timely lessons. However, some of those lessons were too timely. For instance, one lesson appeared to be (view spoiler)[how to hide your boyfriend while serving punch. (hide spoiler)] I suppose this scene could have been cute and clever, but since it happened immediately after the vision, it felt more like the writer was too lazy to think of different sticky situations to place her love More...

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 palate, so to More...

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 the g More...