书名：The Wanderer少女苏菲的航海故事
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数830L
作者：Sharon Creech沙伦·克里奇
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2002
语种：英文
ISBN：9780064410328
商品尺寸：13 x 1.6 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：320
★2001年纽伯瑞银牌奖（Newbery Honor Books）
★2001年克里斯多佛奖（Christopher Award）
★2001年美国图书馆协会优秀儿童图书（ALA Notable Children’s Books）
★2000年美国图书馆协会青少年书籍（ALA Best Books for Young Adults）
★2000年学校图书馆学刊图书（Ski Best Books）
★2000年蓝丝带公告书籍奖（Bulletin Blue Ribbon Best of 2000Award）
★2000年家长精选奖（Parents’ Choice Award）
★2000年儿童杂志年度图书（Child Magazine Best of the Year）
The Wanderer《少女苏菲的航海故事》讲述了一个悲伤而充满力量的故事，结构巧妙，行文优美，曾获得2001年纽伯瑞银奖。

媒体评论：
“这本小说有多层次的故事，它包含了家庭、亲情、推理和悬疑多条线索，以及用生命向大海挑战的冒险情节，它同时动人地展现了一个女孩子带着悲痛迈向成长的阶段性历程。”——美国《儿童文学》

“本书诗意地将‘旅程’和‘自我追寻’结合在一起，迷人地融合了冒险和反思，并从中捕捉住青少年情感生活的起起落落，读起来令人感悟颇多。”——美国《出版人周刊》

"The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in."
Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie’s cousin Cody isn’t sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie’s and Cody’s travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination—and its passengers search for their places in the world.

Review
“Sophie is a quietly luminous heroine, and readers will rejoice in her voyage.”  — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review

“Like Creech’s Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird, this intimate novel poetically connects journey with self-discovery.”  — Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“A beautifully written and imaginatively constructed novel that speaks to the power of survival and the delicacy of grief.”  — School Library Journal, starred review
苏菲从小父母双亡，却表现得似乎没有这回事；苏菲是个怕水的女孩儿，却坚持要参加跨海之旅；苏菲心中埋藏着深深的恐惧和忧伤，在航行中却表现得十分坚强，事事都要自己完成……一次神奇惊险的家族跨海之旅，驱散了苏菲内心深处的阴影，让她摆脱了自幼丧父的不安和悲痛，让她勇敢地面对现实，让她得到自信与成长。

沙伦·克里奇，1945年出生于美国俄亥俄州的南欧几里德，与4个兄妹一起长大。在美国上大学，学习文学和写作，对怎样讲故事非常着迷。大学毕业后在英国和瑞士的中学教授英语和写作课程。她的小说《正常的混乱》（1990年）在英国出版，从此开始了创作生涯。《印弟安人的麂皮靴》获得纽伯瑞金奖，《花儿都开了》获得美国童书协会儿童评选童书奖，《少女苏菲的航海故事》获得纽伯瑞银奖，《红宝石山谷》被英国图书馆协会选为推荐童书。
1998年，在离开18年以后，沙伦克里奇回到美国，定居缅因州，与两个孩子和丈夫生活在一起。她说，与家人共处和写故事让她感到幸福。

Sharon Creech is the Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons. Her other novels include The Wanderer, a Newbery Honor Book, Bloomability,Absolutely Normal Chaos,Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing The Ghost. She has also written two picture books, A Fine, Fine SchoolandFishing In The Air. After spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, Sharon Creech and her husband have returned to the United States to live.
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Cone in, it said, come in.
And in I went, floating, rolling, splashing, swimming, and the sea called, Come out, come out, and further I went but always it swept me back to shore.
And still the sea called, Come out, come out, and in boats I went—in rowboats and dinghies and motorboats, and after I learned to sail, I flew over the water, with only the sounds of the wind and the water and the birds, all of them calling, Sail on, sail on.
And what I wanted to do was go on and on, across the sea, alone with the water and the wind and the birds, but some said I was too young and the sea was a dangerous temptress, and at night I dreamed a terrible dream. A wall of water, towering, black, crept up behind me and hovered over me and then down, down it came, but always I awoke before the water covered me, and always I felt as if I were floating when I woke up.
I am not always such a dreamy girl, listening to the sea calling me. My father calls me Three-sided Sophie: one side is dreamy and romantic; one is logical and down-to-earth; and the third side is hardheaded and impulsive. He says I am either in dreamland or earth- land or mule-land, and if I ever get the three together, I’ll be all set, though I wonder where 1 will be then. If I’m not in dreamland or earthland or mule-land, where will I be?
My father says my logical side is most like him, and the dreamy side most like my mother, which isn’t entirely fair, I don’t think. My father likes to think of himself as a logical man, but he is the one who pores over pictures of exotic lands and say things like “We should go on a safari!” and “We should zip through the air in a hot-air balloon!”