A quick, interesting listen made far more compelling because it is (loosely) based upon a true story! I loved the author's note at the end. The story follows Elizabeth, loosely based on a possible candidate for the Revolutionary Wartime spy, Agent 355 named Betty. She is a well-to-do daughter of ...
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A delightful middle grade fantasy! I was bound to love it because it's about mermaids (that always gets me). The main character, Eliza, is a pre-teen with a close relationship with her grandma, Nana Mora, who lives on a remote island, tells eccentric mermaid tales, and runs a little shop by the ...
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I still really enjoyed this tale, though it did feel a bit like more of the same... it's starting to get hard to differentiate one book in this series from the next. This might have been because Lord Umbra was also the villain in this book, though he significantly upped the ante: this time his goal ...
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  This story follows Audrey, a female pilot during WWII whose job it was to test planes which would be given to the men fighting in the war. She's a well-to-do Southern belle who nevertheless longs for adventure, and for rather flimsy reasons, has sworn off men. Of course this doesn't last ...
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I'm so happy to have discovered this series! (Jim Dale as the narrator is just so amazing, again because of the Harry Potter connection I'm sure... I wonder if I'd have liked it so well had it been narrated by anyone else.) We rejoin Peter and the Lost Boys on Neverland. Molly has gone home, and ...
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