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The dragonfly pool

Title:

The dragonfly pool

Author:

Ibbotson, Eva, author.

Hawkes, Kevin, illustrator.

Summary:

Tally and her friends at Dalderton Boarding School form a dance troupe and travel to Bergania, where she befriends Karil, the crown prince, and helps him flee the Nazis after his father is assassinated.

Audience:

Young Adult Follett Library Resources

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

Boarding schools -- Fiction.

Dance companies -- Fiction.

Princes -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Hawkes, Kevin,

Publisher:

Dutton Children's Books,

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9780525420644

Publication Information:

New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2008.

Call Number:

YA IBBOTSO

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Summary

At first Tally doesn't want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and selfexpression are valued. Tally organizes a ragtag dance troupe so the school can participate in an international folk dancing festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939. There she befriends Karil, the crown prince, who would love nothing more than to have ordinary friends and attend a school like Delderton. When Karil's father is assassinated, it is up to Tally and her friends to help Karil escape the Nazis and the bleak future he has inherited.

Author Notes

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 21, 1925. She graduated from Bedford College, London with a degree in physiology in 1945 and the University of Durham with a degree in education in 1965. Her first book, The Great Ghost Rescue, was published in 1975. She primarily wrote children's book and romance novels for adults and young adults. Her other works include The Secret of Platform 13, The Star of Kazan, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, Dial-a-Ghost, The Ogre of Oglefort, A Company of Swans, and A Song For Summer. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea. She died on October 20, 2010 at the age of 85.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 5-8-In Eva Ibbotson's novel (Dutton, 2008), set in pre-World War II Europe, 11-year-old Tally is sent to a boarding school outside of London by her father who wants to keep her safe from the impending war. She befriends everyone and rights several wrongs, and forms a folk dancing group that travels to a small kingdom to particiate in an international dance festival. She makes friends with Karil, the crown prince. When his father, who refuses to let Hitler's army march through his country, is assassinated, the dance troup set out to save Karil. Narrator Patricia Conolly varies accent and pitch when voicing each charater-the quiet girl who lisps, the shy and self conscious Julia, the secretive Matteo, and Nazi thugs. She creates a cozy world for Tally at school and then captures the children's fear as they race across Europe with the prince in tow, trying to stay ahead of the Nazis. Listeners will fret along with the characters when things don't go well and cheer at some of the heroics.-Edie Ching, Washington Latin Public Charter School, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.