![]() "When I'm in my eighties, I'll find out what happens to Harry Potter" (page 57). She's naturally very unhappy about being seemingly stuck in 1935, but appealingly, a more trivial thought crosses her mind: "Great," she muttered. Miri is a lovely heroine-smart and imaginative. Miri must figure out the magic of time travel to save her new friend. It's clear that Horst is a no-good thief, and every day the threat of his violent temper hangs over Molly's head. ![]() Molly is an unwanted orphaned, living in fear of her bullying cousin Horst. When she looks through it, she finds herself back in time, in the 1930s, face to face with Molly, another little girl who is even more lonely and out of place in her family than Miri herself. With one set of twins (boys) a year older than her, and another set of twins (girls), five years younger, Miri feels like the odd one out-the unremarkable, lonely, middle.īut exploring her bedroom, she finds a mysterious piece of glass taped to the wall. At last, eleven-year old Miri is going to have a room of her own, a strange shaped little attic room, away from the rest of her family. Miri and her family have moved into a big old house out in the country. ![]() ![]() The Magic Half, by Annie Barrows (Bloomsbury, 2008, middle grade, 211 pp). ![]()
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