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Lynn's growing conviction that her sister is learning witchcraft from a neighbor reaches its peak when Lynn, her sister, and brother are left for a weekend in the neighbor's charge.

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I liked the book a lot and thought it was very subtly done! I haven't read any of the sequels yet, so it may get more ~supernatural~ but as it stands, it's such a well-layered book. Lynn and her friend Mouse spend the summer gathering evidence that her sister Judith is a novice witch under the tutelage of an old neighborhood lady, Mrs. Tuggle.

It's such an interesting look at sisterhood and a sibling's confusion at the onset of young adulthood. I thought it was really smart to conflate witchcraft with adolesence and puberty. Probably too subtle for it's audience, but great for those parents reading along.
Well written and suspenseful, but there is such a lack of resolution that in the end the book is unsatisfying.
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Ein sehr schönes Kinderbuch, spannend geschrieben,
sehr unterhaltsam und in jedem Fall empfehlenswert.

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana on January 4, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from American University in 1963. Her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, was published in 1965. She has written more than 135 children and young adult books including Witch's Sister, The Witch Returns, The Bodies in show more the Bessledorf Hotel, A String of Chances, The Keeper, Walker's Crossing, Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry, Please Do Feed the Bears, and The Agony of Alice, which was the first book in the Alice series. She has received several awards including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Cry and the Newberry Award for Shiloh. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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159Philosophy & psychologyPsychology[Formerly: Will and Volition]
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