Showing posts with label Healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healing. Show all posts
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traore

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Publisher blurb: City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There’s no TV, internet or phon...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Clara and the man with books in his window by Maria Teresa Andruetto illustrated by Martina Trach translated by Elisa Amado

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"What does courage mean?' 'Courage is being brave enough  to live the way you want to, the way you believe." Before you re...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Birdy by Sharon Kernot

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Maddy along with her mum and brother Charlie (the Professor) have moved to a remote country town in South Australia. An utterly dreadful thi...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Wilder by Penny Chrimes

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There is a corruption layer to this story which I really enjoyed but it was strangely left unresolved. About half way though the story we di...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Song for Everyone by Lucy Morris

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  "The schoolboy had a long and lonely walk each morning. As he passed beneath the small window he stopped to listen to the music. His ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

My Own Lightning by Lauren Wolk

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The year is 1944. Annabelle, her two brothers, mother, father, grandparents and Aunt live on a farm in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone works ha...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Map of Leaves by Yarrow Townsend

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"Wherever there is sickness, there is rumour ... but I am here to tell you the scientific truth of the matter. This sickness is not bro...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief by Katrina Nannestad

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  The title of this book is so important. Little Sasha is living through WWII. He is a very young boy and his mother calls him Little Rabbit...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur

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Publisher blurb : Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own. 'It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to...