The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)

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Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal
The New York Times Bestseller
An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016
An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016
Named to KirkusReviews’ Best Books of 2016
2017 Booklist Youth Editors’ Choice
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. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . .
The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Witch’s Boy.

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298 printed pages

Impressions

Uroš Martinovićshared an impression5 years ago
👍Worth reading
🎯Worthwhile
🚀Unputdownable
4.5-5🌟
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Lea Jancey Rasmussenshared an impression6 years ago
👍Worth reading
Spændende, sjov anderledes og fyldt med kærlighed og magi
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Mau baca buku dulushared an impression7 years ago
👍Worth reading
🔮Hidden Depths
💡Learnt A Lot
🎯Worthwhile
🚀Unputdownable
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!

It was a complex and rich children book, with so much -no, infinite- love to share. What started as easy classic story, had twisted and tangled so briskly, with mistakes done and ignorance let be. Sorrow lingered and hope furtived. Ah, and so man and witches had too many layered and faces, good and evil.

I love the ending too. All the characters were strong and weak in the same time, they needed each other, to mend all that was broken.
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Quotes

Snowhas quotedlast year
Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.”
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Snowhas quotedlast year
How many feelings can one heart hold? She looked at her grandmother. At her mother. At the man protecting his family. Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
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A story can tell the truth, she knew, but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed.
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