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Justine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Justine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Justine Laismith
Putting words onto a blank sheet of paper. Followed closely by seeing my own ideas and characters come alive on the pages.
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Secrets of the Great Fire Tree
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The Magic Mixer
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Review: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Young-adult book review of Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
While visiting her grandmother, an imaginative girl strikes up a friendship with a divorced cellist. She ignores warnings to keep away from him but never questioned why their friendship was closely watched. Until one day she decided to probe deeper.
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Polly has two sets of memories…
One is normal: school
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| With it all happening subtly in the background, I learnt about the political history in the 1960s through the eyes of an eleven-year-old, whose only focus was being mother to her two younger sisters. | |
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This YA fantasy is about a qin player and her entanglement with the celestials. Indentured as a qin player, Guxue looks forward to her uncle’s visits. One day, he is killed on his way to see her. On the opening night of her solo performance, she gains ...more |
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| This non-fiction book about material science is also part memoir. The author gives an account of a time of her life in connection to the materials she talks about, eg the science of wool coinciding when she travelled around the country, or sugar when ...more | |
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This middle-grade book is about a perplexed girl on a visit to her uncle and aunt's, as to why neither of them seem to acknowledge the existence of their own daughter, however much she dislikes this cousin. Fran doesn't like her cousin but has to stay ...more |
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