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020 _a978-1-61620-746-5
040 _aNU FAIRVIEW
_cNU FAIRVIEW
050 _aPZ 7 B37 2016
100 _aBarnhill, Kelly
_eauthor.
245 _aThe Girl Who Drank the Moon /
_cBarnhill, Kelly
250 _aFirst Edition.
260 _aChapel Hill, North Carolina:
_bAlgonquin Young Readers
_cc2019.
300 _a386 pages, 6 unnumbered pages:
_c21cm.
365 _b615.00
520 _aEvery 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. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the 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 girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna's thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge - with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth's surface. And the woman with the Tiger's heart is on the prowl ... The author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning novel The Witch's Boy has written an epic coming-of-age fairy tale destined to be a modern classic. -- From dust jacket
650 _aFICTION.
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