The Girl Who Drank The Moon Newbery Medal Winner by Kelly Barnhill

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The beloved, Newbery Medal and,winning classic is now in paperback. With more than a million copies sold, The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a must-read for fans of timeless fantasy fables. And coming in March 2022, an immersive new fantasy from Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans. 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 Luna's thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge with 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 earth's surface.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- 10-14 Years
    • Format- Paperback
    • Dimensions- 5. 4" W x 8. 2" H x 1. 1" D
    • Genre- Fiction
    • Publisher- Workman Publishing Company, Publication date- 04-30-2019
    • Page count- 400
    • ISBN- 9781616207465

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11 days ago
from Lafayette, LA

ONE MILLION STARS

"The Girl Who Drank The Moon" by Kelly Barnhill creates a world so vivid I could almost reach out and touch the stars alongside them. She paints a town of sorrow- so thick that it lays over the town like a cloud- and here she shows my favorite character Antain. Antain is my favorite because he is the first one to see through the sorrow and hope for a better day. His bravery shows through out the novel through the hardship of his disfigurement and his determination to save the babies before he even knows what it means to him personally. The other picture Barnhill paints is one of a happy and powerful child who accidentally drank the moon, and who is above all. loved by her grandmother, the witch. Luna doesn't need to be protected, and, when faced with trouble, she proved that all she needed was to be trusted. Watching Luna grow up through the eyes of her aging grandmother was a heartwarming point of view which I felt helps the reader to understand the gravity of the situation through an older person when otherwise they may have blindly sided with L:una who had decided she was a big girl and could do what she wanted. I loved reading this and look forward to reading anything else Kelly Barnhill has to offer!

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12 months ago

A story of how a normal baby girl gets enmagicked

This book is by Kelly Barnhill. It was published in 2016 & is not in a series. In this book a baby girl is enmagicked by a witch who accidentally feeds the baby moonlight, & then decides to raise her as her own. I think this book is “Impossible to put down.”, as the New York Times Book Review states. The author is very good at capturing the reader’s attention and sort of luring them in. What I love so much about this book is that the author layers it in such a way that you can’t wait to see what’s next! Also, as a fluent reader, this is one of the best books I have ever read & it definitely deserves more praise. I would recommend this book for imaginative readers. I hope you enjoy it!

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Customer review from barnesandnoble.com

2 years ago

great book would recommend

this book was a bit slow to start but absolutely worth the read. wonderful, lovable characters and over all a great story.

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3 years ago
from Washington state

Okay

I was very excited to read this book when I got it, but when I finished, I disliked it. Some parts of the book were not explained, for example, the witch lady ( can't remember her name.) she turned into a bird but a few chapters later, she somehow got turned into a human again, but they didn't explain when or how.

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4 years ago
from New England

A Magical Story of a Magical Girl

’Listen. This is a story about an ogress. She is not who you might think she is. (But really, is anyone?)’ A magical story of a magical girl, a witch, a tiny dragon, a family of orphans, a magician, a madwoman, the Elders of the Protectorate who insist that the annual sacrifice of a baby is necessary to appease the witch who lives in the forest, and thus keep her from tormenting them. But the witch in the forest is a good witch, rescuing these children, strengthening them with starlight along their journey to the families who will embrace them with love. One year, Xan, the witch, feeds the baby moonlight unintentionally, rather than starlight, which infuses the girl, Luna, with magical powers far beyond her years, which she temporarily solves by hiding these magical powers within her until Luna reaches her thirteenth year. Other characters enter the story as it progresses, Luna’s biological mother, a monster and a dragon, and more as evil seeks to prevail, but as in all good fairy tales, fables, and legends, love triumphs over evil, eventually, but not without some drama along and secrets revealed beforehand. This has been on my to-read list for some time, and since I will be reading Kelly Barnhill’s soon-to-be-published The Ogress and the Orphans, I wanted to read this one first.

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