THE WANDERER by Sharon Creech

Thirteen year old girl Sophie who goes sailing with her cousins and uncles to England to visit her grandpa, but her Uncle Dock also plans to visit someone else…his true love. In The Wanderer, my favorite part was when Sophie was telling stories about Bompie (Sophie’s grandpa). It was my favorite part because each story she told, was very different except the endings. The endings would be that his father gave him whippings for doing something crazy, and his mother would give him pie for being safe. When she told her stories, her uncles did not know about the stories of their dad as much as Sophie knew about her grandpa. So they think that she would have made up the stories that no one knew. They also wondered where she had gotten these stories from. My favorite story is when Bompie visits his dad for three weeks in the hospital because he is ill. The first week Bompie’s too angry to speak to him, the second week Bompie tells him how many times he whipped him, and on third week Bompie looks at his weak father and on the next day he brings him apple pie and they both start crying. Also, Sophie’s other two cousins figure out she’s adopted and ask her uncles why and how. They visit many places and friends, they get hit by a huge and terrible tide and Uncle Dock doesn’t know if he’s going to find his true love. Worst of all, they hear that Bompie (Sophie’s grandpa) is very ill. Is this trip worth it at all? Are Sophie’s stories true? Will Bompie be alive when they visit England? To figure all this out read The Wanderer by Sharon Creech.
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