What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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From Hereabout Hill
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SOLVED. Book where girl drowns [s]
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Jun 30, 2015 09:20AM
all i remember is that it is a short story, i read it on a kindle. There is a girl, who is on a beach collecting pink shells, then she drowns. She thinks she is still alive, she climbs up a cliff side, goes into a mine(?)in the side of the cliff, sees these ghost miners and asks them where she is. She gets back home and sees her parents crying with the shells she collected. I think it was in a book which had lots of other short stories in too. I swear it was called tales from faraway hill? i looked up that name but didnt find anything.
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if you go here and put "faraway" in the search criteria you could look through titles with that name. http://www.isfdb.org/ I saw there were 10 short stories with "faraway" in their title and a couple collections.
'From hereabout hill' by Michael Morpurgo. That particular story is called the giant's necklace I believe.
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"The Giant's Necklance is another short story by Michael Morpurgo that was used for literacy lessons with my year five class.
The story focuses on Cherry who is on holiday with her family in a Cornish coastal village. Whilst on holiday Cherry occupies her time by making a necklace out of cowrie shells and she wants to make it big, thus why the title is called "the Giant's Necklace."
The last day before the family are due to return home, they all go to the beach. Cherry, determined to complete her necklace, remains on the beach whilst her family return to the cottage to pack and she promises her mother she will be home before dark. Not giving up on her determination, Cherry continues her search. However, the tide is coming in fast and Cherry begins the ascent towards Eagle's Nest but a storm is brewing and Cherry succumbs to the sea.
Cherry then finds herself in a disused tin mine by a father and son who used to work there. The miners then assist Cherry to return home. Upon returning home, no one can hear and/or see Cherry. It is at this point the reader realises Cherry was killed by the storm and she is now a ghost, as were the two tin miners."
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