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Jinjing the penguin

Book Review: The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

September 29, 2019January 20, 2016 by Midge Raymond
Cover of The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

The Penguin Lessons is the story of a young Englishman who, on vacation in Uruguay from his teaching job at a boarding school in Argentina, rescues an oil-covered Magellanic penguin. …

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