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MG Book Review: A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee

Annabel Grey knows she’s not supposed to look into puddles. Her mother forbids it. She can’t help herself. The terrifying images she sees in them are mesmerizing. What is happening to this prim and proper Victorian young lady? It’s magic of course! She is a most magical girl. She doesn’t know its magic. Her mother has kept her magical past from her and sent her to a Victorian finishing school. But when her mother is [...]

MG Book Review: Ophelia & the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

Karen Foxlee has written a stunning modern-day fairy tale inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen classic: The Snow Queen. When eleven-year-old Ophelia discovers a boy locked in a forgotten room of a museum, she stumbles upon long forgotten secrets and an evil she can defeat only if she believes in magic. So what’s with the names in the book’s title? Absolutely, everything. Foxlee has created characters that are both timeless and new at the same [...]