Once upon a time there was a town called Protectorate with townspeople who were wrongly taught that the witch in the woods was evil. In fact, they were taught that the only way for the witch to not hurt the whole town was for them to give the witch the youngest child in the town once a year, so she would leave them alone. Sadly, they were wrong. Xan, the so-called witch, is not mean at all. All she knows is a baby
is left in the same spot once a year for no apparent reason. One day she picks up the baby girl, and is so enchanted with her she doesn't realize that she has fed her moonlight, which is pure magic. Once Xan realizes what she has done, she decides to raise the child herself, whom she names Luna, for she has magic. Once Luna grows up and Xan gets older, they finally realize what is happening to the babies. Read about Luna and Xan in The Girl
Who Drank the Moon, written by Kelly Barnhill, as they brave the scariness and wonderfulness of the world that they live in. The Girl Who Drank the Moon is magical and wonderful and amazing. If you love magic, read this book!!! TITLE: The Girl Who Drank the Moon AUTHOR: Kelly Barnhill PUBLICATION DATE: August 9, 2016
#Protectorate #Drinkingmoonlight #Luna #KellyBarnhill #magic Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016 Named to KirkusReviews’ Best Books of 2016 2017 Booklist Youth Editors’ Choice Every 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 . . . Sometimes you read an award-winning book and you think, Hmm. Sometimes you think, Good choice. And then you read one and say to yourself, Of course; how could this book have ever been denied? That last category is where I’d put The Girl Who Drank the Moon. All the components of story and storytelling–characters, conflict, narration, pacing, insight, universality, voice, style, etc.–come together in a tale that engages and impresses from the first page on. So the fact that the book won the Newbery isn’t a surprise; anything less would have been. The surprise (to me, at least, because somehow I’ve managed to overlook Kelly Barnhill’s other books) is that she ignored some of kidlit’s most ingrained conventions and did it so successfully that she might just explode the whole world of writing shoulds and musts and other imperatives. Her writing soars above all those “truths” about sticking to one point-of-view character (or if you get really crazy, maybe two or three) and avoiding omniscient narratives and author intrusions and certainly never allowing an adult point of view to make even a brief appearance and for sure never ever over the whole course of a story. And middle-grade novels shouldn’t get into controversial stuff like witches and magic and philosophical musings about life and death and human nature and humanity and evil and what is the essence of life, and remember to keep that word count under 50,000. I’m not saying that these writing-for-kids conventions should be ignored. I’m sure Kelly Barnhill is well aware of them. But her writing prowess enabled her to recognize them for what they are–guidelines–and then tell her story with a level of seamless, poetic richness that wouldn’t have been possible if she’d allowed herself and her imagination to stay within the constraints of by-the-book dictates of what “has” to be done if you’re going to write for kids. So if you like thought-provoking stories, masterfully told, read this one. Ignore the “kids” label. The Girl Who Drank the Moon doesn’t cater to labels. It caters to readers. (Review on Goodreads) How long is The Girl Who Drank the Moon?The Girl Who Drank the Moon. What is age appropriate for The Girl Who Drank the Moon?I would recommend for tween to teen age. Things don't really turn around for any character in the book until the last few chapters...after page 300. It is a magical book and beautifully written but has a somber tone throughout.
Is The Girl Who Drank the Moon worth reading?“The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a marvelous children's story about fear, secrets, and the power of love . . . a wonderful book that older children and teens should enjoy reading.”
What happens in chapter 29 of The Girl Who Drank the Moon?The parent tells their child that a witch (but not the Witch) made the volcano thousands of years ago. Nobody knows how old the Witch is, but she sometimes looks like a girl and sometimes looks like an old woman. The volcano might still have dragons in it, but nobody has seen them. The Witch might have eaten them.
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