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    <body><![CDATA[I have read many books by Eva Ibbotson. She almost always has a female character that is innately good. She affects others by her lack of knowing how great she really is and she can move people to action. What I liked about this book is it came about because of Eva's own experience at bording school...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42102966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightful!  This was classic Ibbotson and was a perfect comfort read for me.   I listened to this on audio and I found myself taking the long way home and doing extra chores just to keep listening.  Ibbotson has a charming old-fashioned feel to her stories that I adore.  This book is peopled with w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37500664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To read a book that is pure pleasure is a gift, particularly when you've been reading a lot of so-so or merely okay books for a while. My history with Eva Ibbotson has been a kind of stilted one. As a librarian I've shelved her fantasies on a regular basis. As a reader I tasted one of her realistic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32876670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The king of a Bergania (a fictional country, though one that seems a lot like Switzerland) refuses to allow Hitler's troops to march through his country. Seeing this on a newreel at the movies, Tally is struck by his courage, and also interested in the prince, who's face she can't really see, obscur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40424454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[12-year-old Tally knows the war between Hitler and Britain will begin soon and she wants to do everything she can to help.  When her father secures a scholarship for her to attend boarding school in the countryside, Tally is at first dismayed she'll have to leave her father and aunts.  She soon lear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46333670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eva Ibbotson is so great!  This reminded me a lot of her &quot;Star of Kazan&quot;, but since I love that book too, I didn't mind this.  Just as WWII is breaking out, Tally's father sends her away from London to a boarding school in the country, where he hopes she'll be safer.  There she makes some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58181124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[surprisingly awful,especially given that it was partially based on ibbotson's own childhood experiences. it offers badly rehashed themes from ibbotson's other (better) books and unintentionally trivializes war with its simplistic characters and almost unbelievable naivette. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was prepared to really love this book based on the recommendation of friends, but in the end I can only say that I liked it. <br/><br/>I loved the characters (especially Tally and Matteo) but I never felt like they were fully developed. I love the boarding school aspect, but in the end it simply...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53666890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A stunning look at WWII from the point of view of a British girl sent to a school in the countryside so as to protect her from the war. The school is progressive and she finds herself convincing her fellow students to travel to a country in Europe whose king has openly spoke against Hitler and made ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43653030">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book. It's on my list of &quot;books that make me feel like the Harry Potter books do&quot; despite it's setting in a more-or-less real World War II era Europe with no magic. For one thing, Tally and her classmates go to the most wonderful boarding school ever - picture Hogwa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50970011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by AJ's friend who is a children's librarian. She said: The fictional country of Bergania, when it isn’t overrun with Nazis, is just the place I’d like to visit, if I had the chance.  Young English girl Tilly takes a trip there in 1939 with a very hilarious school chums as part of a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40435612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ibbotson's books are always a splendid romp, with children doing things adults think they can't (escaping from the Nazis and producing plays and finding themselves and coping with the horror of war) and adults rediscovering themselves and the world through the eyes of these children. She doesn't all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41833392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual, Ibbotson's latest is a great blend of the cozy and the realistic.  War is at the forefront of the story in one sense, but in another it's all about how the characters react.  We've got the classic Ibbotson heroine, well-intentioned and likeable without being a goody two-shoes.  There are t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33545193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely LOVE Eva Ibbotson's adult books.  This book was good--she's a very talented author--but it was another one that took some work to get into.  I forced myself to read several chapters before I started getting into the story and then I enjoyed the rest.  The children in the book are likabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71794307">more...</a>]]></body>
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