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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I still really enjoyed reading this one as I have all of Jeff Wheeler's books, but I had a few more insights into why I have such a hard time following what's going on: perhaps this is typical of high fantasy (which I almost never read), but many made up objects, titles, cities, and names are used ...
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This was so much fun -- I felt like I'd discovered another Harry Potter! Partly this was because it was narrated by Jim Dale, who also narrated the Harry Potter series. Peter is an orphan, the head of a band of orphan boys, who finds himself aboard a ship called the Wasp where they are poorly ...
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