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This is the first of Joan Aiken's Willoughby Chase chronicles. It is a page-turner and far more of an adventure thriller than I had imagined. It is set in an alternate England, beginning in 1832, and we see the start of the trials and journeys of three children on Willoughby Wold. The book was first published in 1962 and probably offers more straightforward danger and troubles than many children's books written in more recent decades. Both real wolves and "wolves in sheeps' clothing" threaten pa
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I remembered loving this book as a kid. I'm sure that it's still good, but this falls in the category of "If it isn't worth remembering, it isn't worth reading." What talk was that again? Something from conference. Anyway...
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Delightful! Nothing like a riches to rags to riches again :)
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