The New Policeman
by:
Kate Thompson (author)
Who knows where the time goes?There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When J.J.'s mother says time's what she really wants for her birthday, J.J. decides to find her some. He's set himself up for an impossible task . . . until a neighbor...
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Who knows where the time goes?There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When J.J.'s mother says time's what she really wants for her birthday, J.J. decides to find her some. He's set himself up for an impossible task . . . until a neighbor reveals a secret. There's a place where time stands still—at least, it's supposed to. J.J. can make the journey there, but he'll have to vanish from his own life to do so. Can J.J. find the leak between the two worlds? Will a shocking rumor about his family's past come back to haunt him? And what does it all have to do with the village's new policeman . . . ?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061174292 (0061174297)
Publish date: April 22nd 2008
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Paranormal,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Fairies,
Irish Literature,
Ireland,
Music
Series: New Policeman (#1)
All the lost socks from the dryer end up in the land of fairies/shidh! Now that's a thing you know. LOL Time is being drained through a leak between the two worlds. A young boy is lead on a quest to discover why and fix it. As long as he doesn't forget. Slither up the ladder to space 95. 95....
An excellent blend of myth and music and Kinvara. Entertaining story with some interesting characters from Irish myth and legend and the type of people you meet in Galway city or county occasionally. I liked the blending of modern and myth in this one, well worth a read. It did take me a while t...
It took a while to get used to the (very) short chapters and, for lack a better term, the musical interludes, but once so accustomed, they weren't intrusive on the story at all: and I liked how the scores effectively named the preceding chapter.I felt for all of the characters, especially the family...
This got such rave reviews, and while I thought it was clever and liked how things fit together, I just found myself not caring about the characters and not understanding where the supposed passion they claimed came from. Overall, it was just very slow-going, and in a book about how fast time is mov...