{"id":223,"date":"2011-10-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2019-03-10T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:46:18","slug":"time-traveling-fashionista-by-bianca-turetsky-fiction-vintage-dress-in-a-titanic-time-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Time-Traveling Fashionista, by Bianca Turetsky (fiction) – vintage dress in a Titanic time-adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Vintage clothes and old letters<\/a> are tangible links to the past. What if the right vintage dress<\/a> was a direct link to its original owner’s past, like a wearable time-travel ticket?<\/div>\n

Louise really appreciates the fine craftsmanship of vintage clothing<\/a>, frequently wearing her carefully selected ensembles to junior high school (even if her mother disdainfully calls them “used clothes”).<\/p>\n

Who could imagine that a hand-delivered invitation to a dusty shop would take Louise so far away from her suburban Connecticut home?
\nFirst in a series – can’t wait for the next!
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: The Time-Traveling Fashionista \/ Bianca Turetsky. Little Brown Teens, 2011. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

Recommendation<\/b>: Dreaming about the perfect dress for the seventh-grade dance is much more fun than studying the Titanic<\/i> in history or doing math problems. Of course, it should be a vintage dress – Louise just adores vintage designer clothes.<\/p>\n

When an invitation to the exclusive “Traveling Fashionista Vintage Sale” is hand-delivered, Louise and best friend Brooke go downtown to check it out. The shop may have eccentric owners and terrible crab dip, but its dresses are divine!<\/p>\n

When Louise tries on a sparkling, silky pink gown, she swoons and blacks out, waking up… on board an ocean liner?<\/p>\n

Everyone calls her “Miss Baxter” – from Mr. Baxter (her uncle and manager, says her maid Anna) to the very elegant passengers aboard. When others look at Louise, they see the beautiful young actress returning from a successful tour in Europe; when she looks at herself in the mirror, Louise sees her 12-year-old self, complete with braces and frizzy hair.<\/p>\n

Stumbling through the plush carpeted corridors on Miss Baxter’s high heels to the sumptuous dinners at the captain’s table, Louise makes a few mistakes that her uncle explains away as stress. Once Louise discovers exactly which ship she’s on, her stress level truly skyrockets!<\/p>\n

Can she persuade the captain of the Titanic<\/i> to alter his course? Will any of her new friends survive? Will Louise ever see her parents and modern times again?<\/p>\n

First book in a fun series that will have readers prowling vintage clothing shops, looking for the perfect ensemble to send their imaginations back in time. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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