BOOKSHOP.ORG CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH A captivating feat of storytelling and one that will make its permanent home in your heart" SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK "A sublime eco-adventure. And Noa can investigate who started the fire. Bea can stow away across Europe on a train. But now they’re about to lose it and there is nothing the children can do. In its own way, the house rescued them, even with a fallen tree taking up most of the kitchen. On top of the hill overlooking the sea is a magical place. To Bea and Raffy, Ravenwood is home. The movie "scripts" that frame some of the chapters can distract, but the narrative quickly returns to Blue's voice, which captures events better than video.", balances Blue's growth with wry humor and light moments.Blue's struggles are handled with honesty, and she makes a rewarding journey from observing her life to living it again and accepting what she has lost., At once funny and painful and tumultuous, with a deus-ex-machina ending that will make readers want to cheer.Join three extraordinary children as they fight to save what is most precious to them on the planet. The characters, adults and children, are flat-out wonderful, fully realized, and unique. Farrant offers a story that is a mix of madcap fun and heartfelt emotion.
Still, there is skateboarding to be learned and friendships to be reignited-and a family to be repaired, but that's a more complicated process. When wild, sweet Joss moves next door, he captures her heart, only to break it after becoming involved with Flora. But life has a way of drawing in even the reluctant. And Blue, almost 13, is watching from behind her video camera, trying not to get involved with life when it can hurt you so badly. The kids are being watched by male au pair Zoran. Dad spends most of his time in Warwick-perhaps writing, perhaps having an affair (possibly both, of course). But now Iris is dead, and the family is falling apart. Natasha Farrant gives a full, engaging portrait of a complicated family through the eyes of Blue Gadsby, surviving twin and aspiring filmmaker., Bluebell is poignantly marked out as the observer in a crowd of actors.readers who enjoy quirky family stories may want to follow the Gadsbys' journey to reconciliation., "They used to be a unit: Flora, twins Bluebell and Iris, Twig, and Jasmine.
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