HarperCollins Publishers A Flash of Fireflies
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Price: £7.99
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Description: A magical middle grade book about family, friendship and finding your place, with a delicate touch of magic. Perfect for 10-12 year olds and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michelle Harrison and Kiran Millwood-Hargrave and The Girl Who Speaks Bear. Hazel's new life in England should have been the stuff of fairy tales; after all her aunt's cottage looked just like a gingerbread house, with a magical garden and whispering fireflies promising quests and adventures. But as Hazel struggles to deal with the challenges of the everyday world - making friends, missing her family - she also learns that every fairy tale has a dark side. And there are terrifying creatures that lurk in the shadows. HarperCollins Publishers A Flash of Fireflies - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780755500642
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780755500642
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Author: Wayne
Rating: 5
Review: I have enjoyed all of Aisha's books this is one my favourites. It deals with issues that plague many people young and old and I feel it gives an insight I never had before. I myself suffer from OCD. I found that I didn't want this book to end when I was finished and I look forward to her next book.
Author: Caz
Rating: 4
Review: This was a great read. We follow Hazel, who at the beginning of the book moves over to England from Kuwait at the start of the summer holidays. She spends those weeks with her Great Aunt - a woman she's never met - as her parents pack away their old life to move over for good. Hazel is confronted by three fireflies, who drag her into a magical world and force her to do tasks for them more and more often. As you read the book you're not sure if it's actually happening, or if it's a metaphor for her mental health deteriorating. I thought it was a really interesting way to talk about mental health - specifically OCD - so younger readers can more easily understand the bad magical things happening, rather than the author trying to explain compulsive thoughts in a realistic, real world way. The world building takes inspiration from a bunch of fairy tales - a subject that Hazel is learning more about in summer school, so the more she learns about the villains and tropes of the tales, the more these things turn up in her own world. It's not all doom and gloom though, there's a great friendship blooming in here between Hazel and fellow summer schooler Ruby, the interactions between Hazel and her 'Grant' (great aunt) weave a mysterious and intriguing tale and the summer school aspect is fun.
