Books by Michael Morpurgo
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review 1: Is it a crime to protect your families with secrets and lies? If it's the only thing that can warrant a normal life for your child and comfort your loved ones, why would it be wrong? This is a beautiful story about familial ties. Also, on how love transcends beyond society's ill ...
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review 1: Michael Morpurgo never disappoints me. This is one of his shorter stories , accompanied by Michael Foreman's beautiful illustrations. A brother and sister discover the story behind a wooden toy dog which belonged to their mother. As in many of his books, I appreciate the author's...
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review 1: Inspired by two true events described the afterword, this novel is narrated by an elderly woman (Lizzie) in a nursing home telling the story of her youth in Dresden Germany during World War II. Her mother was a zookeeper, who brought a young elephant home nightly to their privat...
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review 1: I selected this book because it had a cat on the cover. I thought it was a JPB, but was surprised that it was a nice book of somewhat historical fiction. It's a quick read about a young boy and a cat he comes to care for. That they were on the Titanic is an interesting way to ...