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It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.

Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge

August 19, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: School – Literacy is considered dangerous in this world, but Mosca wants to keep learning what she can, which is why she goes with Eponymous Clent and searches out the secret school. Real life provides her a different kind of schooling. Armed with just her ability to read and her murderous pet goose, twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hitches her fortune to that of the smooth-talking conman Eponymous Clent and gets herself tangled up in an adventure that could change the world she lives it, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, cbr17bingo, Fiction, Frances Hardinge, middle grade, mystery, Young Adult

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:43 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, cbr17bingo, Fiction, Frances Hardinge, middle grade, mystery, Young Adult ·
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A Fly By Any Other Name

August 1, 2017 by melanir Leave a Comment

Fly by Night is Frances Hardinge’s first novel, but the third or fourth novel of hers that I’ve read. I liked it, and I definitely think that it’s one of the better middle grade novels out there, however it’s not my favorite of her books. Twelve year old Mosca, who is orphaned, lives with her uncle and is smarter than most of the people in her little town. Her best friend is the goose Saracen, because outcasts stick together. When the smooth talking con-man Eponymous […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: Frances Hardinge, middle grade fiction

melanir's CBR9 Review No:69 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: Frances Hardinge, middle grade fiction ·
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