About this title: Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780440902294ISBN:0440902290
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Some wear and scuffing to cover with corner creasing and edgewear. Pages tanning. Good reading copy. Writing inside cover. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780440902294ISBN:0440902290
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Fiction Young Adult Synopsis: 241 pages. Flip doesn't think shell ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school. Besides being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophis... read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780440902294ISBN:0440902290
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Mass Market PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. G-coverand overall wear. may have price &/or remmarks on book. all pages readable! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This definitely didn't have the magic of many of l'Engle's other books, but I haven't read her for a very long time, and I wonder whether I would find it in any of her books. I liked Flip better as a self-pitying lonely romantic and didn't love the pull-up by the bootstraps and fit in with the rowdy boarding school girls message. Though maybe in the shadow of World War II, that message was more powerful--just get on with the living because too many have died. I was fascinated by the mention of a hostel for lost children of the war on the border of Switzerland and Germany. Were these places real? Because one of my favorite books by Margot Benary-Isbert also featured an ark-like saving station."
"This was definitely my favorite of the books that I've read by Madeleine L'Engle. I've read it half a dozen times already, and will certainly go back to it again."
"I read this book many many years ago, and it had actually slipped my mind.... until a little while back when all of a sudden i remembered reading and loving an amazing book about a girl in boarding school... i couldn't for the life of me remember it's title! So I searched and searched, and have found it!!! This book is wonderful! I am going to read it again!"
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