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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0689300077
ISBN-13: 9780689300073
Aug 1971
Publisher: Bantam Books
Grade:
From 4 to 6
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This moody, winter-saturated middle grade novel is a study of childhood loneliness and friendship, with a wonderful, child-like narrative that is humorous, intelligent, and never cloying. New to the neighborhood, grade schooler Elizabeth is pretty lonely until she happens upon a mysterious girl in a tree who claims to be a witch. Jennifer seems to be everything Elizabeth isn't: unusual, knowledgeable, secretive. Elizabeth becomes her apprentice witch, and begins a comic series of trials involving food (from raw eggs to onions), along with Saturday morning tutorials with Jennifer at the library and park. At the same time, Elizabeth struggles to crack Jennifer's reticence, and cope with her own growing pains. Accompanied by B&W line drawings. A 1968 Newbery Honor Book by the author of two Newbery Medal-winning books, THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY (1997), and THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER (1968.), This moody, winter-saturated middle grade novel is a study of childhood loneliness and friendship, with a wonderful, child-like narrative that is humorous, intelligent, and never cloying. New to the neighborhood, grade schooler Elizabeth is pretty lonely until she happens upon a mysterious girl in a tree who claims to be a witch. Jennifer seems to be everything Elizabeth isn't: unusual, knowledgeable, secretive. Elizabeth becomes her apprentice witch, and begins a comic series of trials involving food, along with Saturday morning tutorials with Jennifer at the library and park. At the same time, Elizabeth struggles to crack Jennifer's reticence, and cope with her own growing pains. Accompanied by B&W line drawings. A 1968 Newbery Honor Book by the author of two Newbery Medal-winning books, THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY (1997), and THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER (1968.), Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I first met Jennifer on my way to school. It was Halloween, and she was sitting in a tree. I was going back to school from lunch. This particular lunch hour was only a little different from usual because of Halloween. We were told to dress in costume for the school Halloween parade. I was dressed as a Pilgrim."
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