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why I picked this book
I choose this book beacuse I thougth it would be a good book, but I think it isnt that good of a book. It was not the book I thought it would be. This book is about a girl whos father died and lives with her mother on the boarer of mexico. On the U,S,A side. There is a garden house rigth in the side of the border and that is rachels favorite hangout spot. But her mom doesnt like her going close to the border becasue, supposely there is a ghostly presnts that haunts the bored. -
begining
rachel always seemed that she lived on the property, though it wasnt true. Her mother, Vivian said they moved there when she was three years old. but rachel didnt remeber. To her, the propety was home. she felt as comfortable there as she did in her own skin. Rachels mom was scared for her to go hangout at the green house by The Line. legend says that there is a ghost that haunts the green house and the line. -
still begining
An invisibale, uncrossable line physical barrier enclosed United states. The line is the part of the border that lopped off part of the counrty, dooming the inhabitats to an unknown fate when enemy used a banned weapon. One big important desision for rachels mom and rachel, was to move cuz of her dad died. -
The line
nobody but rachel and her mother, who went to live there after rachels dad died in the last war it was safe, quite life. Until rachel finds a mysteriuos recorded messaeg that can only have come away. The voice is asking for help. -
more of the line (change)
rachel misser her dad so much that she is willing to cross the line to see him. Young Rachel lives on The Property with her mother, employed at the will of the home’s owner, Ms. Moore. During the day, Rachel completes chores in the greenhouse, and by night she studies under the watchful, shrewd eye of her mother. But Rachel is young and, as the young are wont to be, curious. -
why they moved
It seemed to Rachel that she had always lived on The Property, though this wasn’t true. Her mother, Vivian, said they moved there when she was three years old, but Rachel didn’t remember. To her, The Property was home. She felt as comfortable there as she did in her own skin. But she knew that for most people, The Property was too close to the section of the National Border Defense System known
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Natinal border defense
The National Border Defense System enclosed the entire Unified States. The section called the Line was only a small part of it, but because of its history it was infamous, at least locally. Strange things were supposed to happen near the Line; dangerous things. Even though there hadn’t been a Crossing Storm in over forty years, people still thought of the Line as a bad place to be near. There were whispers about Away—the territory on the other side of the Line. -
crossing the line?
Rachel wasn’t afraid. After all, she spent a lot of her time in the greenhouse that was all the way at the back of The Property, right next to the Line. Away was clearly visible from the greenhouse windows. Rachel had gazed countless hours out those windows at Away, and she had never seen anything strange over there at all. Just the same meadows and trees that were on the U.S. side of the Line. -
rachel never listens
Technically, Rachel wasn’t supposed to be in the greenhouse. Ms. Elizabeth Moore, the owner of The Property, grew orchids there, which she shipped to the cities to sell. Vivian had always cautioned Rachel to stay away from the greenhouse; she worried that Rachel might be a bother to Ms. Moore, or that she might break something. Rachel tried to do whatever she could to make things easier for her mother, but the greenhouse had seemed magical to her from the first time she saw it—so hushed, so peac -
rachel like it there cuz itt was peace and quiet there
Rachel couldn’t resist. She hid somewhere in the greenhouse almost every day when she was little, happy among the flowers. She was careful to stay out of Ms. Moore’s sight, of course. She would have been careful even if she hadn’t been warned not to bother her. Ms. Moore was old, and not old in a grandmotherly, “here are some cookies” way; she was quite forbidding. Rachel was almost scared of her. But being in the greenhouse was worth the risk. -
when they moved rachel spent most of here days there
Rachel used to lose herself there in the kind of daydreams that children who grow up in solitude often have. She’d imagine that she was a princess, the greenhouse was her castle, and the whole of The Property was under her rule. Sometimes she would pretend that she was able to talk with the orchids. Each bloom had a different voice; some were quiet and polite, while others were loud and boisterous. Rachel made them her friends. -
good book or nah..
Honestly I would recommend this book to people who like scary/sad books. it took a while to get to the action. It was nice to have the time to develop the characters, but for the first third of the book, I was wondering when the action would begin building. It had little violence.
