Story Magic

Story Magic
Laurel Gale
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Paperback
h203 x 133mm - 224pg
27 Oct 2020 US
Locally sourced in NZ eta 7-15 days
9781631634390
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Twelve-year-old Kaya must harness the power of story magic - ignoring her society' s bias against female magic wielders and her own internalised fear that her magic will cause bad luck - to save her brother and find herself. Girls are forbidden to practice story magic. Only bad things happen when they do. Everyone knows this, but that doesn' t stop twelve-year-old Kaya A' Dor from learning the basics from her older brother Hob. The trick is to sense a listener, one of the magical beings that inhabit the world, and tell it a story. If the listener is pleased and likes the story, it will allow the storyteller to work magic. Although Kaya knows the risks, she attempts a little story magic to impress Hob. When Hob is taken prisoner in Prima, the faraway capital city, Kaya is convinced it' s her fault, either because someone discovered what she was doing or because the bad luck has found her. Desperate to save her brother, Kaya will do anything to make it to Prima, including story magic. With each story she tells, her ability to wield story magic grows - and she soon begins to wonder if her brother' s imprisonment was really her fault or something else entirely. Each story brings her one step closer to finding Hob and leaving behind everything she' s ever known. AGES: 8 to 14 AUTHOR: Laurel Gale is the author of Dead Boy and Monster, Human, Other. She lives with her husband and their ferrets in Vancouver, Washington.
"Gale quickly creates a fantastical world . . . maintains focus and ensures that the story is easy for young readers to follow. Recommended. "--School Library Journal "A coming-of-age adventure whose heroine may have to grow up fast, but does so on her own terms. "--Foreword Reviews
Laurel Gale is the author of Dead Boy and Monster, Human, Other. She lives with her husband and their ferrets in Vancouver, Washington. You can visit Laurel online at laurelgale. com or on Twitter at @laurel_gale.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781631634390
Published: 27 Oct 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Jolly Fish Press
Publisher: Jolly Fish Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 224

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