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SOLVED. YA fiction. Ballet dancers, 1980s book, two friends dance
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SOLVED. Children/ Teen Historical Fiction ("Roman empire" type era) about a middle eastern or Asian girl whose town is besieged and she must escape to find her precious horse. Read 2008-2012. Spoilers.
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ABANDONED. A girl has a black cat who she thinks is turning her evil
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Books about witches and witchcraft but not fantasy
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It's weird to reread this an adult because as a kid (this is true of many of Snyder's stories) it seems ambivalent whether there is actually magical stuff going on. Is her cat [gasp] a witch?! As adult it it obvious that this is an abused kid projecting crazy, rage-filled fantasies on her equally unlucky and abused kitten. Knowing what the score is makes it more disturbing, not less. ...more
I was able to enjoy this more with the author's note in this version about inviting one's own devils and needing to exorcise them ourselves.
Previously read January 29, 2009. ...more
Previously read January 29, 2009. ...more
This book, picked up quite by accident, was wonderfully suspenseful and creepy. I remember reading this, and then devouring everything else our little public library had about witches and the supernatural. In the 4th grade, I wanted nothing more than to be a witch. My how times, and the mercurial interests of children, change.
ZKS's books stand the test of time. I enjoy them just as much as an adult as I did as a kid.
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Aug 09, 2008
Kate
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
age-middlegrade,
1993-and-before
The version I read had a different cover, but I still did not really enjoy this story at all. I think I tried to read a couple of different times, too.
Wish I'd read this as a kid. I probably would have adored it. As an adult, I felt pretty bad for Jessica and the lack of love in her life.
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Apr 06, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
rated it
liked it
Shelves:
read-childrens-books,
read-newbery
Apr 08, 2014
Erin
marked it as to-read
