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Review: The Swan Keeper: A Girl Confronts Her Father’s Killer 0
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- March 11, 2019
BOOK BLURB from Amazon: From USA Today featured novelist and Western Writers of America Spur award finalist Milana Marsenich, The Swan Keeper is an historical, coming-of-age novel set in 1920s Montana. On her eleventh birthday, Lilly’s family visits the Cattail Marsh to see the newly hatched cygnets. The family outing turns tragic when Dean Drake
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Review: The Swan Keeper: A Young Girl Contends With Her Father’s Killer In 1920s Montana 0
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- February 18, 2019
After reading Copper Sky way back in August of last year, I was very much looking forward to reading The Swan Keeper, Milana’s latest novel. The Swan Keeper is told in the third person through the perspective of Lilly, a young girl. On her eleventh birthday during a family outing to see newly hatched trumpeter
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Review: The Swan Keeper: A Determined Young Girl Takes On Her Father’s Killer 0
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- January 16, 2019
The Swan Keeper is an historical, coming of age novel set in Northwest Montana’s Mission Valley in the late 1920s. Lillian Connelly loves trumpeter swans and vows to protect them from a hunter who is killing them and leaving their carcasses for the wolves and coyotes to ravage. On her eleventh birthday Lilly’s family visits
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Review: The Swan Keeper: Malice And Magic In The Mission Mountains Of Montana 0
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- January 3, 2019
The Plot The Swan Keeper is a historical, coming-of-age novel set in Northwest Montana’s Mission Valley in the late 1920s. It tells the story of Lilly Connelly, an eleven-year-old with a wild imagination and deep love for swans. On her eleventh birthday, Lilly’s family visits the Cattail Marsh to see the newly hatched cygnets. The family
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Review: In The Swan Keeper, A Young Girl Finds Inner Strength Amongst Loss And Grief 0
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- November 1, 2018
The Swan Keeper by Milana Marsenich is a coming of age study in grief, perseverance, trust in oneself, and justice. Lilly Connelly is on the cusp of young adulthood when tragedy hits her family. Lilly is positive she knows who the perpetrator of this crime is, but no one will believe her, not the law,
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Review: In The Swan Keeper, The Hunter Becomes The Hunted 0
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- October 10, 2018
The Swan Keeper was a book that really surprised me, and one which I thoroughly enjoyed. Set in the late 1920s in a small community in Northern Montana, it focuses on 11 year old Lillian Connelly, her family, and the trumpeter swans that she has vowed to protect. Lillian’s father has discovered that Dean Drake,
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