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Midnight Is a Place, by Joan Aiken

10 Sep 2010 ★ ★ ★ ★☆ ☆ bookshop.orgBuy the book

A dark, interesting kids book with well-developed characters. Themes: industrialization, child labor, and factory work. Midnight Is A Place. Joan Aiken. Best Thing: Forget the crocodiles in New York's sewers, these people have man-eating boars. Worst Thing: The happy ending. Not that I wanted bad things to happen to the characters! It just seemed like a cop out.

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