Playing Marbles With The Devil

The protagonist twelve year old boli struggles to make sense of a rapidly changing world relying for support on a fragile set of friends and allies.

Playing marbles with the devil. The devils marbles are of great cultural and spiritual significance to. Playing for the devil s fire is a well paced novel accessible for teens and young adults. It s a big ol stretch of nothing between darwin and alice so it was sweet to stop and check out some niiiice boulders on the way. She likes to trundle along at 80km hr on the highway and things inevitably end up taking longer than planned.

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The characters are engaging and the plot moves steadily towards a powerful conclusion. The long drive to the devil s marbles.