Secure A Copy The Girl Who Drank The Moon (Winner Of The 2017 Newbery Medal) Authored By Kelly Barnhill Ready In Digital Version
After the conference, I put it on my reading list, In the past, I had the opinion that the best books are childrens Slow and repetitive in parts but overall good and would recommend.
Gave to my granddaughter for Christmas, She loves the book. Nice book. I thought it was a smaller thin book like for a beginner reader however it was def, A chapter book when received, No big deal I just gave it to someone else instead of theyear old I purchased it for.
This is most likely my fault for not reading into it before Honestly one of the best books I have ever read.
It's so emotional. It's full of love and warmth and yes, terrible pain, It made me so sad and so happy and I almost cried at the end, This may sound crazy, but “Sorrow is a dangerous thing” indeed, Upon reading the chapters which makes this novel begins to be interesting where Luna starts searching for her Grandmama / Xan, at Sunday afternoon I was trying to accompany my youngest daughter to take a Winner of theNewbery Medal The New York TimesBestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best
Middle Grade Book ofA New York Public Library Best Book ofA Chicago Public Library Best Book ofAn TopBest Book ofA Publishers Weekly Best Book ofA School Library Journal Best Book ofNamed to Kirkuss Best Books ofBooklist 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 Lunas thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emergewith 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 earths surface, And the woman with the Tigers heart is on the prowl, T h e book flowed beautifully, Touching on so many levels, Highly recommend. Best foryears and up, Excellent.
Kelly Barnhill is an author, teacher and mom, She wrote THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON, THE WITCH'S BOY, IRON HEARTED VIOLET, THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF JACK and many, many short stories.
She won the World Fantasy Award for her novella, THE UNLICENSED MAGICIAN, a Parents Choice Gold Award for IRON HEARTED VIOLET, the Charlotte Huck Honor for THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON, and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton award and the PEN/USA literary prize.
She was also a McKnight Artist's Fellowship recipient in Children's Literature, She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her three brilliant children, architect husband, and emotionally unstable dog, She is a fast runner, a good hiker, and a terrible gardener, You can visit and chat at her blog: www, kellybarnhill. com.