Jessica and Miss Strega go off to source the Brewing ingredients, to the Market at the Very End of the Earth. The fourth title in this magical series. Jessica and Miss Strega are off on an expedition to restock Miss Strega’s shop with Brewing Ingredients.They moon-vault up to the Milky Way, meeting a rather fat dragon on the way. When Jess Spells the dragon out of trouble, he tells her where she can get that elusive ingredientt Mandrake and also the name of a dentist who will supply Dragons’ Teeth and Dragon Blood. They visit the Market at the Very End of the Earth, where they choose from the Pool of Lost Socks and buy some Rompadenti biscuits. They camp out in an orange orchard and Jess learns about the Modern Witch’s Brewing Pyramid. Jess brews up a Shock Brew which makes Miss Strega and the familiars itch all night. But Miss Strega gets her own back on Jessica for the itchy brew, by giving her a Rompadenti biscuit with her name on… luckily Jess uses the Dragon’s Blood to make the writing disappear, otherwise who knows what might have happened. The fourth title in this magical series, fizzing with fun and excitement.
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Jessica and Miss Strega go off to source the Brewing ingredients, to the Market at the Very End of the Earth. The fourth title in this magical series.
30 b/w illus • Fourth title about this ten-year-old witch, the first of which was chosen for the W H Smith new talent promotion • A title in the fresh Roaring Good Reads for 7 – 9 year olds • Magic and witches are always popular with younger readers and this will compete well with other series fiction for this age group such as Mr Majeika, Ms Wiz, The Worst Witch and the non-witchy Jeremy Strong books and Horrid Henry. • Irish author, is agented by Sophie Hicks – who also represents Eoin Colfer [Artemis Fowl] Competition: Worst Witch, Mister Majeika, Miss Wiz
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007133444
Publisert
2003-11-03
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
72 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

Forfatter
Illustratør

Biographical note

Maeve Friel was born in Northern Ireland and went to university in Dublin. After many years working and travelling in Spain, Italy and England, she now lives in a small village near Alicante (Spain). She has a son and a daughter. Apart from the Witch-in-Training series, she has published four novels for older readers, a book for young readers and a book of non-fiction as well as featuring in many short story anthologies. She has been short-listed three times for the Irish Children's Book of the Year (Bisto), has won a Bisto Merit Award, was twice nominated for the Reading Association of Ireland literary awards and won the Hennessy Literary Award. She has also had stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE.