Tag: England
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Book Review: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
by Laura Noakes publisher’s synopsis Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls – a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her friends – Pearl, Mary and Diya – and they start…
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Book Review: A Place to Hang the Moon
by Kate Albus publisher’s synopsis It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9, aren’t terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are…
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Book Review: Fawkes
by Nadine Brandes publisher’s synopsis Thomas Fawkes has longed for the day when he will receive his color mask. He is certain that he will bond with the color Gray and finally be able to drive the Stone Plague out of his eye. Sure, no one else has ever managed to color speak the Stone…
