Over the Sea: CJ's First Notebook
core novel 2007 Sartorias-deles
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.19 (100 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781934648360 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
At eight the author dreamed of a girl queen named Clair who travels between worlds to recruit adventurous girls. Clair adopts CJ, who becomes her best friend and a princess, and CJ leads a gang of girls known as the M girls against villains such as the mage Kwenz and the usurper Glotulae and her son Prince Jonnicake. The book tells how the gang came together and how the Duel to the Pie began, in the voice of a young narrator writing up her adventures in a notebook.
Where it sits
- Universe: Sartorias-deles
- Series: CJ's Notebooks core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sherwood Smith
Notes
- First edition: YA Angst trade paperback, 2007 (260 pages).
- From the series record (CJ's Notebooks): Journal-style adventures of CJ and the M girls, written by the author as a young person and revised, set in Mearsies Heili and linked to Fleeing Peace.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series CJ's Notebooks: position 1 of 4: next Mearsies Heili Bounces Back: CJ's Second Notebook (2008)
- Internal chronology, within Sartorias-deles: position 8 of 37: previous The Wicked Skill (2022) · next The Trouble with Kings (2008)
Sources
- Sherwood Smith: The Kids' Stories
- Sherwood Smith: Sartoran History
- ISFDB record via AuthorWars (ISBN-10 1934648361, converted)
- Book listing: CJ's Notebooks
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