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The Hotel Balzaar: (A Magical Middle-Grade Mystery about Stories, Secrets, and a Girl Searching for Her Father - For Kids Ages 7-10 in Grades 2-5) -- Kate DiCamillo, Hardcover S. a. Cosby Shadow and Bone was unlikeIn a wise and magical follow up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales and every moment is a story in the making. At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman,