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He lives on a fruit plantation with his father, older brother, and older sister.
It’s called that because the weather is awful. I’d be sorely tempted to classify it as “Historical,” except it’s a totally imaginary history of totally imaginary places.Įgbert is growing up on Deadweather Island. This book is only fantasy in that it takes place in an imaginary world, and legendary magic is mentioned, but it is dismissed as a legend and no magic is ever seen.
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