these three books were definitely highlights that my childhood
The butterfly lion (1996)
Trying to run away from boarding school in England, a boy encounters an old woman who tells him the story of Bertie and his beautiful white lion.
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Meg RosoffIn the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at the edge of the sea.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
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