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Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing
Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room)

Well, you can easily tell that this book would be hard to forget from the title itself. Indeed the book is all about the things above. Flora is a stubborn and strong young girl, I mean, woman (seeing as that she is an "adult" now in her world) who is willing to do almost anything to learn Gramatika, a vocabulary that allows the speaker to invoke magic, and become a Ranger herself. She risks life and limb in her attempt to fulfill her dream. Along the way, her friendship with Udo, this boy who is obsessed with his looks and becoming a pirate (a Ranger and a pirate - pretty cool pair huh?) is tested by a pair of sparkling red boots and her city is in peril due to a giant octopus-like creature trapped in the depths of Califa. Not to mention she discovers that there is more to her past than she thought. I can't delve more into this without giving away the whole damn secret so you'll have to satisfy yourself with this. If you REALLY want to know in advance, just message me. No need to have innocent readers checking out my review for once to get caught in your curiosity.