The Magic Circle
by Donna Jo Napoli (Author)
Deep in the woods lives the old witch called Ugly One. All she wants is to forget--the she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day she hears the footsteps she dreads.
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Then real voices--children's voices. The Ugly One longs to take care of sturdy, sensible Gretel and her young brother Hansel. They are such good children, such delicious, beautiful children. But demons' voices scream in her head: "Eat them!" How can she? . . . How can she not?
"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed novel."--School Library Journal, starred review "A work of great strength and powerful emotion, written with immediacy and intensity, filled with beauty and terror and pervading sense of compassion that must touch young and old."--Lloyd Alexander An ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
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In the words of PW's starred review, "Napoli gives a classic fairy tale [Hansel and Gretel] an entirely new twist, at the same time incorporating absorbing details about medieval religious beliefs. . . . A YA novel of genuine magic and suspense." Ages 12-up. (June)
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"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed novel."—School Library Journal, starred review "A work of great strength and powerful emotion, written with immediacy and intensity, filled with beauty and terror and pervading sense of compassion that must touch young and old."—Lloyd Alexander "The author's extraordinary craftsmanship and originality never flag. . . A YA novel of genuine magic and suspense, this will captivate adults as well."—Publishers Weekly "Richly poetic yet accessible and immediate; pungent and wise; mesmerizing."—Kirkus Reviews An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com. Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson's work has won the Coretta Scott King Award, the Robert F. Sibert Award, two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Awards, and the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. His beloved, award-winning, and bestselling picture books include We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball; Thunder Rose, written by Jerdine Nolen; Ellington Was Not a Street, written by Ntozake Shange; Salt in His Shoes, written by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan; and many more. Kadir lives in Los Angeles.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140374391
Lexile Measure
580
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
June 19, 1995
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
Library of Congress categories
Fairy tales
Witches
Witches
ALA Notable Children's Books
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Wilson's Junior High School
