Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying "Heh-Heh!" and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away... by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch...until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the girls exile Old Witch there with the warning that she'd better be good-or else no Halloween! For company they draw her a Little Witch Girl and a Weeny Witch Baby. Old Witch tries to be good, but anyone would get up to no good in a place as lonely as the glass hill...as Amy and Clarissa find out when Old Witch magics them into her world, a world of make-believe made real.
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Creators
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Release date
June 5, 2007 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781593163693
- File size: 136024 KB
- Duration: 04:43:22
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.4
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 2-4
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Reviews
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Amy, "almost 7," and her best friend, Clarissa, like nothing better than sitting together to draw pictures and make up stories about mean Old Witch. When they banish their favorite character to the barren glass hill they've drawn, Old Witch is so miserable and cranky that Amy sketches a little girl and a baby to keep her company. While all the traditional elements of scary fantasy are present here, Jane Jacobs's crisp, smiling voice persuades listeners that all will be well even when she uses a crotchety voice for scheming Old Witch. The story is full of delicious vocabulary, puns, rhymes, and spelling, most often through the unusual voice of Malachi, the magic spelling bumblebee. R.H.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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