There is magic in starlight of course. This ist well known. Moonlight however. That is a different story. Moonlight is magic. Ask anyone you like.
Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as a sacrifice to the witch who lives in the forest. But the witch, Xan, is a kind one. She rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.
But one year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with etxtraordinary 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 and thrilling consquences....
Medium erhältlich in:
52 Lern- und Medienzentrum,
Mainz
Personen: Barnhill, Kelly
Barnhill, Kelly:
The Girl Who Drank the Moon / Kelly Barnhill. - London : Piccadilly at Bonnier Books UK, 2017. - 385 Seiten
ISBN 978-1-84812-647-3 kart., 11,20 EUR
J E - Signatur: J E Barn - Kinder und Jugend