A fifth magical adventure about everyone’s favourite witch-in-training. Witches and magic, spells and potions… there’s so much to learn when you are a witch-in-training! The fifth adventure for ten-year-old Jessica, who is training to be a witch with the legendary Miss Strega. Jess discovers that flying wasn’t always as simple as jumping on a broom and that, long ago, witches had to fight for the right to fly. To find out more, Jessica learns how to Spell Backwards, that is, to go back in time…
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A fifth magical adventure about everyone’s favourite witch-in-training.
30 b/w illus • Fifth 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
9780007185245
Publisert
2004-11-01
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
72 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
5 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.