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Format:
Book
Title:
The girl who drank the moon
ISBN:
9781616205676

9781616206567

9780605956926

9781537911137

9781848126473

9781338167016

9781616207465
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2016.
Physical Description:
388 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her"-- Provided by publisher.

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 author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning novel The Witch's Boy has written an epic coming-of-age fairy tale destined to be a modern classic. -- From dust jacket.
Reading Level:
640L Lexile.

Structure indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 90 (high) Semantic indicator: 100 (very high) Decoding indicator: 100 (very high) Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 4.8.

Reading Counts! 4.7.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 12 183878.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.8 12.0 183878.

Lexile 640L.
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