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|borrow=Yes
|isbn=9781407132976
|pages=212
|publisher=Scholastic
|date=July 2012
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071329701407133020</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1407132970</amazonus>
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|summary=Lady Agatha Farlingham is captured by a yeti, and agrees to bring up his motherless children. Many decades later danger threatens, and the yetis have to flee their idyllic home. Agatha decides the only place her beloved yeti family will be safe is at her ancestral home, in Hampshire. But she is old now: who will take them there?
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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
Oh, this is a lovely, lovely book! It will tug at your heart-strings right till the very last page, and you will quickly grow as fond of these wonderful Tibetan creatures as Lady Agatha was. Agreed, they are very large and clumsy, and extremely hairy, but make no mistake: in this story it is the humans, not the yetis, who are abominable.
Another Ibbotson road trip that will have you alternately laughing and crying is [[One Dog And His Boy by Eva Ibbotson and Sharon Rentta|One Dog and His Boy]]. It comes very highly recommended by Bookbag.
{{amazontext|amazon=1407133020}}{{amazonUStext|amazon=1407132970}} {{waterstonestexttoptentext|waterstoneslist=8917645Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012}}
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