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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2013
Londoner Mila, twelve, is an observant watcher and a solver of puzzles. Although “still, technically speaking, a child,” she considers herself more responsible than her absent-minded translator father, Gil, and claims a higher emotional intelligence than her cool-headed musician mother (“If someone is angry or sad or disappointed, I see it like a neon sign”). So when Gil flies to New York to search for his oldest friend, Matthew, who has inexplicably disappeared, Mila accompanies him. The road-trip n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
Sensitive Londoner Mila, twelve, travels with her father, Gil, to upstate New York to search for Gil's boyhood friend, w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More