The Dragonfly Pool

The Dragonfly Pool

2008 • 420 pages

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While attending a folk dance festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939, Tally befriends Karil, the crown prince. After Karil's father is assassinated, Tally and her friends help Karil escape the Nazis and the bleak future he has inherited. Illustrations.

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This was a lovely book celebrating friendship and the true nobility of the human spirit. Ibbotson is marvelous at both goodies and baddies, and her little idiosyncratic touches are hilarious (like Pom-Pom the Outer Mongolian Pedestal Dog). I want to go to school at Delderton!

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