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I remember going to the bookstore years ago without a booklist. I didn't have any title or book in mind, but I knew that I wanted something different... something that…
I remember going to the bookstore years ago without a booklist. I didn't have any title or book in mind, but I knew that I wanted something different... something that…
This book touched me deeply. A young Afghani’s recurring nightmare pulls us into this story – “It’s always the same. The jets scream overhead.” He dreams of running to escape…
Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the third and final volume of the Children of the Famine trilogy. (I have reviewed the first two books, Under the Hawthorn Tree and Wildflower Girl.) It has been twelve years…
Wildflower Girl by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the sequel to Under the Hawthorne Tree. (You can read my review here.) This book sees Eily, Michael and Peggy alive and well six…
I first discovered this gem of a book by Marita Conlon-McKenna quite by accident and almost gave it a miss – it was such a ragged copy! I got it…