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Buzz for Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Algonquin Young Readers, pub day Aug. 9) is still growing:
Entertainment Weekly featured
Kelly’s spellbinding prequel to this book; it’s received four starred
prepub reviews; and it’s a top 10 Indie Next Pick nationwide.
About The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a
baby as an offering to the witch in the forest to keep her from
terrorizing their town. But the witch, Xan, is kind and gentle. She
rescues the abandoned children and deliver 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. To keep the enmagicked girl, Luna, safe
from her own unwieldy power, Xan raises the girl as her own, locking
the magic deep inside her until her thirteenth birthday. But when the
magic begins to emerge on schedule and Luna’s powers grow stronger,
Xan’s own magic begins to fade. Meanwhile, a young
father from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by
killing the witch; but it’s Luna, not Xan, whose magic he detects. Soon
it is up to Luna to defend herself and those she loves against growing
dangers: an assassin, a madwoman, and an erupting
volcano that threatens the entire realm.
About Kelly Barnhill
Kelly Barnhill lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children. Both her most recent novel,
The Witch's Boy, and her first, The Mostly True Story of Jack, received four-star reviews. Her second,
Iron Hearted Violet, received a Parents' Choice Gold Award and was an André Norton Award finalist.
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