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Penelope Farmer

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Born January 1, 1939 (87 years old)
Westerham, United Kingdom
26 books
4.6 (10)
111 readers

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Books

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Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection)

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When she awakens on her second day at boarding school, a young girl finds she has gone back in time to 1918.

Sisters

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An unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenage daughters, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife, known only as 'she.' Obsessed with her, the narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal 'she' intellectually, or ever forget about the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and 'she', from which the narrator is excluded?

Penelope

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Since being abandoned by her widowered father, Flora lives with her cousin and struggles with memories of a previous life in which she was the child Penelope.

Year King

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An eighteen-year-old English boy must face a dangerous confrontation with his twin to resolve their lifelong crisis of identity.

Beginnings

4.0 (1)
9

A collection of tales set in the Honor Harrington universe includes contributions by Timothy Zahn, Charles E. Gannon, and Joelle Presby and is complemented by a new novella by David Weber featuring a young Manticoran Royal Navy commander.

A castle of bone

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Three friends encounter a terrifying experience with a time warp when one falls into a cupboard and becomes an infant.

William & Mary

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Transported into strange underwater worlds by the half a sea shell William owns, Mary and William conduct a seemingly hopeless search for the other half of the shell.

The story of Persephone

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A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

The magic stone

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Two English girls from differing backgrounds are joined in friendship when they discover a stone that seems to have magical powers.

The summer birds

4.7 (3)
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A strange, magical boy approaches Charlotte and Emma Makepeace on their way to school one day, and offers to teach them to fly. Soon all of the children in the village have learned, and are given one precious summer of flight and freedom, although they must struggle to keep their outings secret.