The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
In a world where the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to a witch, one year a baby is filled with extraordinary magic. The witch, Xan, decides to raise the girl as her own, but as her thirteenth birthday approaches, Luna's magic begins to emerge with dangerous consequences. With deadly birds and a young man determined to kill the witch, tensions rise in a captivating novel that won the 2017 Newbery Medal.
Publish Date
2016-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
2016-08-09T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.12
ISBN
9781616207465
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2018-02-18T23:01:40.000Z
I just spent a couple weeks of bedtimes reading THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON to my kids and I don’t know if I can explain to you how iconically good it is. Absolutely up there with Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy. Yes, really. One of the best books I’ve read in years. – source