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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion -- the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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