The
girl who drank the moon
Barnhill, Kelly Regan
creator
author.
text
Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
cou
2016
2016
monographic
eng
388 pages ; 22 cm
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this enmagicked girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. To keep young Luna safe from her own unwieldy power, Xan locks her magic deep inside her. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule -- but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her -- even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she's always known.
Ages 10-14.
4 to 6.
juvenile
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso.
Witches
Juvenile fiction
Child sacrifice
Juvenile fiction
Abandoned children -- Fiction
Magic
Juvenile fiction
Friendship in children
Juvenile fiction
Witches
Fiction
Magic
Fiction
Friendship
Fiction
Fantasy
PZ7.B26663 Gi 2016
813/.6
9781616205676
1616205679
2016006542
CoCr/DLC
160224
20191022163059.0
ocn933272468
eng