The Secret World of Polly Flint

by Helen Cresswell

Other authorsShirley Felts (Illustrator)
Paperback, 1984

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Publication

Puffin Books (1984), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 176 pages

Description

Polly Flint, a girl who sees things other people can't, finds herself involved with the "time gypsies" of Grimstone, inhabitants of a lost village who have become trapped in a time not their own.

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I have taken so many snippets from this book deep into my mind... every spring I hear Polly saying 'it's not spring until you can put your foot on 12 daisies', and often when I look across a misty lake I remember 'water always finds it's own level.' I re-read it because I went back to Wellow and
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saw the maypole and suddenly the whole book came flooding back.
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Language

Original publication date

1982

Physical description

176 p.; 6.93 inches

ISBN

014031542X / 9780140315424

Local notes

Polly Flint, a girl who sees things other people can't, finds herself involved with the "time gypsies" of Grimstone, inhabitants of a lost village who have become trapped in a time not their own.
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