Nightbird - Alice Hoffman
Category: Children
Narrator: Jenna Lamia
Tags: Children, Fantasy
Length: 4hrs 43min Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Release date: Mar 10, 2015, In her first novel for middle-grade readers author Alice Hoffman tells a bewitching story of love and friendship that is truly magical., Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster. And two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twigs family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, everything will change when the red moon rises. Its time to break the spell., Such a clever mix of fantasy and reality; the fantasy is so persuasively meshed with the story that the reader accepts everything. Alice Hoffman enters brilliantly into the twelve-year-old mind and winds her account of a disordered family into the twists and turns of an elegantly crafted narrative in which past and present unite to solve a magically intriguing problem of witches, feathers and owls. Penelope Lively, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Booker P
