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Begone the Raggedy Witches

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by Celine Kiernan
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When witches kidnap her dad, Mup is swept up in a wild tide of magic that carries her to another world. Can she reunite her family and find her way back?
On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup's family. Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the tyrannical queen who has outlawed most magic and enforces her laws with terror and cruelty — and who happens to be Mup's grandmother. When witches carry off her dad, Mup and her mam leave the mundane world to rescue him. But everything is odd in the strange, glittering Witches Borough, even Mam. Even Mup herself. In a world of rhyming crows, talking cats, and golden forests, it's all Mup can do to keep her wits about her. And even if she can save her dad, Mup's not sure if anything will ever be the same again. First in a new trilogy by Irish author Celine Kiernan, this tale of family and forbidden magic charts a fresh path through the landscape of beloved fantasy tradition — and promises to bewitch any reader in search of stories to love.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Wild Magic Trilogy

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 11, 2018

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781536204872

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781536204872
      • File size: 1617 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.9
    • Lexile® Measure: 710
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2019
      To save their family, Mup, her mam, and her baby brother cross a magical border into the realm of witches; there Mup discovers secrets about her heritage as well as another side of herself. Kiernan creates a rich new story in the fantasy tradition, with familiar tropes such as human-animal transformations and rhyming riddles alongside fresher elements (including a dark-skinned protagonist). Readers will look forward to the projected sequels.

      (Copyright 2019 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

    • Kirkus

      Starred review from August 15, 2018
      As witches scheme to break her family apart, a young mixed-race Irish girl must rescue her father and risk losing her mother.Pearl "Mup" Taylor first spies the raggedy witches the night that Aunty dies. Long ago, Aunty brought Mup's white-presenting mother across the border into the mundane world to protect her from her mother--Aunty's sister--the queen of the Glittering Land. But when Aunty dies, witches kidnap Mup's human, Nigerian-Irish father as he's on his way back from a North Sea oil rig in order to lure the queen's heir, Mup's mother, back across the border. Danger lurks everywhere as Mup, her mother, little brother, and Aunty's ghost stage a rescue mission--and as the power of magic steadily calls to her mother, Mup fears she will lose her entire family in the Glittering Land. Kiernan has crafted something at once familiar and delightfully surprising with this fantasy quest. Like biting into an unassuming brownie to discover it has a heart of Nutella, Mup's narrative has all the hallmarks of a traditional misadventure with the fairy folk, but the unusual deployment of the "chosen one" trope, a plot-driving interweave of magic and family tension, and ineffably Irish elements of worldbuilding and characterization deliver readers an unexpected twist of richness.It's fortunate a trilogy is planned, for readers will surely demand more of Mup. (Fantasy. 8-12)

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Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.9
  • Lexile® Measure:710
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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