The Ogress and the Orphans
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the Newbery Medal winning author of THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON
Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the townsfolk to lose their library, their school, their park, and all sense of what…
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What does it mean to be a neighbor? What is it like to “wear the skin of another creature” and experience what they experience? Will the experience make one nobler, kinder, more generous? Or not.
This wonderful, magical story answers these questions and many more.
This is a story of greed and fear. Of suspicion and ignorance. But it is also a story of love and hope, kindness, and generosity. A story with an evil dragon, a kind and generous ogress, and a town full of people in need of a lesson on how to be good neighbors. A lesson…
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