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Cover of “The Girl Who Drank the Moon” by Kelly Barnhill

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill · 2016

388 pages

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Each year the people of a village leave a baby in the forest for the witch they fear, and each year the witch Xan carries the child to a safe home. When she accidentally gives one baby moonlight instead of starlight, the girl gains dangerous magic, and Xan decides to raise her. Luna grows up among a swamp monster and a dragon, unaware of the mother who still mourns her.

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Cursed Village, Witches, Found Family, Coming of Age, Whimsical

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