The Dragonfly Pool
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Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
While attending a folk dance festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939, Tally befriends Karil, the crown prince. After Karil's father is assassinated, Tally and her friends help Karil escape the Nazis and the bleak future he has inherited. Illustrations.
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This was a lovely book celebrating friendship and the true nobility of the human spirit. Ibbotson is marvelous at both goodies and baddies, and her little idiosyncratic touches are hilarious (like Pom-Pom the Outer Mongolian Pedestal Dog). I want to go to school at Delderton!
This book has been one of my most beloved comfort reads since it got on my bookshelf 4 years ago, and it's an emotional, yet pleasing tale. The book is divided into parts, narrated about the two main characters in the first two parts, Tally and Karil. And, it has another part when Tally and Karil meet, and their lives unexpectedly connected, despite the fact that Tally is a girl attending a boarding school with not very good reputation, but turned out to be unusual for Tally, while Karil just happens to be a prince, an heir to the throne of the beautiful Bergania.
