Harriet Sirof

Bring Back Yesterday Harriet Sirof

When Lisa's parents die in an airplane crash, Lisa must go to live with irresponsible, unpredictable Aunt Alice. Grief-stricken and miserable, Lisa is transported back in time to Shakespearean England. There she meets Rooji, who wants to be an actor like "Cousin Will." The girls disguise themselves as boys to join a London acting company. As Bring Back Yesterday alternates between Shakespeare's London and present day New York, Lisa copes with eerily parallel riots, arrest, and trials in both worlds and gradually discovers the strength to get past her grief and take her first steps into a new life.