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Nancy Farmer has a gentle, fanciful, intriguing style that (for me) evokes Frank L. Baum's "Oz" series and the best of Roald Dahl. It's fun for adults as well as for children, because there are deep themes and hints of a well-thought-out world. Each strange thing raises questions about why it exists and who created it.
This book is an odyssey combined with a detective novel. The missing children go through futuristic Zimbabwe and encounter all sorts of bizarre obstacles which prevent them from b ...more
This book is an odyssey combined with a detective novel. The missing children go through futuristic Zimbabwe and encounter all sorts of bizarre obstacles which prevent them from b ...more
Mar 17, 2010
Karla
marked it as to-read
Mar 27, 2011
The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears
marked it as ya-to-reads
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Leewana
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