The Magic Circle
  • Published: 1 June 1995
  • ISBN: 9780140374391
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99

The Magic Circle

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From the author of Zel, Stones in Water, and The Prince of the Pond.
 
Deep in the woods lives the old witch called Ugly One. All she wants is to forget—the she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day she hears the footsteps she dreads. Then real voices—children’s voices. The Ugly One longs to take care of sturdy, sensible Gretel and her young brother Hansel. They are such good children, such delicious, beautiful children. But demons’ voices scream in her head: “Eat them!” How can she? . . . How can she not?
 
“A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed novel.”—School Library Journal, starred review
 
“A work of great strength and powerful emotion, written with immediacy and intensity, filled with beauty and terror and pervading sense of compassion that must touch young and old.”—Lloyd Alexander
 
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
  • Published: 1 June 1995
  • ISBN: 9780140374391
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $12.99
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About the author

Donna Jo Napoli

Donna Jo Napoli has written several novels for young adults involving Italian history, from the Renaissance to the World War II era. History wasn’t her favorite subject when she was young, but in writing stories based on historical events, Ms. Napoli has become fascinated by the people of many different times and places. Learning more about the past reveals that history has surprising bearing on the present. In the artistic and political world of Medici Florence, the author sees many similarities to our world today.

Ms. Napoli lives with her husband in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she is a college professor. She has written nearly sixty books for young readers, including STONES IN WATER, FIRE IN THE HILLS, THREE DAYS, THE MAGIC CIRCLE and THE PRINCE OF THE POND.

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We Are Starlings
Treasury of Magical Tales From Around the World
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Treasury of Norse Mythology
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Praise for The Magic Circle

“A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed novel.”—School Library Journal, starred review   “A work of great strength and powerful emotion, written with immediacy and intensity, filled with beauty and terror and pervading sense of compassion that must touch young and old.”—Lloyd Alexander "The author's extraordinary craftsmanship and originality never flag. . . A YA novel of genuine magic and suspense, this will captivate adults as well."—Publishers Weekly  "Richly poetic yet accessible and immediate; pungent and wise; mesmerizing."—Kirkus Reviews  An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year