Books by Karen Foxlee
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review 1: Rose Lovell and her father have lived a life on the road for as long as Rose can remember. This kind of life does not lead to many friendships but that all changes when they move to Leonora and Rose meets Pearl. Pearl is an effervescent person with more energy that Rose can ima...
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review 1: The Midnight Dress was a rather unique and interesting story. I enjoyed the characters as well as the plot twist. Engrossing from the beginning, and attention grabbing until the end, the writing was vivid and very real. My only complaint is that I would have liked to have seen...
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review 1: Wow, this book was pretty nifty. There were shades of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Glass Slipper (with Leslie Caron) in it. Mostly Picnic at Hanging Rock in that intoxicating, dreamlike, atmospheric way. I picked this up at the library thinking it was gonna be a fluffy, girl bo...
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review 1: Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn't think she's very brave, but she's very very curious. Her mother has just died and her father is pre-occupied planning an exhibit of swords in a museum far from their home. Ophelia is left on her own and when she explores the museum she ...
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review 1: After about the first 50 pages, I was going to put this book down, and no longer read it, because it just did not pull me in immediately. When I finally decided that this book at some point had to get better and continued reading I feel in love. I'm not a big reader, so really th...
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review 1: This is a riff on Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, and would be a good read aloud for third grade classrooms studying fairy tales. Ophelia has moved to a large city with her father and sister, Alice, after the death of her dear mother. As Ophelia's father is working on...