SYNOPSIS

For many, many years people in a secluded village have been told to give up their babies as sacrifice for a dangerous witch, to keep the village safe.

That same witch has always wondered why people deserted their babies, and took them to caring families in another village to raise them.

One special baby girls grows up in the forest with the witch, and reveals her own amazing magical abilities because she drank moon when she was little.

A boy training to be a village Elder hates seeing the abandoned babies, and decides to find out where the babies really disappear to.

He discovers that the sorrow of the families with lost children feeds the spirit of a terrible sorceress who invented the story of the bad witch in the woods.

When the truth is revealed, all evil is banished, and long-separated families are reunited.

PERFECT AGE 10 – 13

We love

• Like a beautiful fairytale, with some frightening moments, lots of imagination, and a great ending!
• Super engaging and creative – hard to put down once you start it.

CONVERSATION STARTERS

• Did your feelings toward Xan change from the beginning to the end of the book? How so?
• What do you think was stopping Fyrian from growing? What helped him get transformed?
• What could the terrible witch symbolize in life, besides just a really bad sorceress? How was she defeated?