Instead of cricket, she'll be put to home renovation work, and served stomach-turning health food. Instead, she's backed off to her eccentric grandmother. Madeline was planning to spend her school holiday having fun with her best friend, an equally sporty sort of girl. One of the ways I comforted myself this past spring was ordering lots of books from overseas I'd been meaning to read, and this was one of them. It won the 2016 Aurealis Award for best Children's Fiction in 2016, and has been sitting in my tbr list since about that time. When the Lyrebird Calls, by Kim Kane (Allen and Unwin, 2016) is an Australian time travel novel (marketed as Young Adult, but with crossover appeal to both older middle grade readers (11-12 year olds) and no longer young Adults (over 20).
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