Nightbird

I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical. . . . ["Nightbird"] is like reentering a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember. Lois Lowry, two-time Newbery Medal winning author of "The Giver" In her first novel for middle-grade readers, bestselling author Alice Hoffman tells a bewitching story of love and friendship that is truly magical. Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster. And two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig s family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, everything will change when the red moon rises. It s time to break the spell. What Other Authors Are Saying"I loved "Nightbird." Such a clever mix of fantasy and reality; the fantasy is so persuasively meshed with the story that the reader accepts everything. Alice Hoffman enters brilliantly into the twelve-year-old mind and winds her account of a disordered family into the twists and turns of an elegantly crafted narrative in which past and present unite to solve a magically intriguing problem of witches, feathers and owls." Penelope Lively, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Booker Prize"