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SOLVED. Middle Grade Fantasy about a girl who is secretly a witch and lives with a caravan of bandits. Read around 2017-2018.
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SOLVED. Juvenile (realisticish?) Fiction read in 2018-19. About a girl whose family owns a cemetery and they live on the plot. (more in comments)
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So much promise here that doesn't quite get fulfilled. The opening, with the magical book that leads to Sherwood Forrest and an adventure with Robin and his Merry Men, is wonderful. So is the namedropping of so many other books and authors who have written similar books (like the Narnia books, or E Nesbit). Even the second adventure in an entirely new world is fun. But the third, in the world of War and Peace doesn't fit at all. It's not a story MG readers will know and without that they'll be d
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