by Frances Hardinge
"We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human." This is one of the best books I've read this year, despite it being a children's book. Here, I said it. It has that amazing level of complexity and ambiguity, the brave tackling of difficult questions - friendship, loyalty, and t...
Three kids steal coins from a wishing well for bus fare and discover they have received strange powers in order to grant the wishes of the people who dropped the coins.This starts off as a fairly conventional kids-encounter-strangeness adventure -- it reminded me most of early Diana Wynne Jones (Wil...
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