The Glass Witch

by Lindsay Puckett

Overview

Her bones are glass, but her heart is magic.

Adelaide Goode has never been good enough. Everyone knows she’s the weakest witch born to the Goode family in centuries. And now her mom is betraying her in the worst possible way: abandoning her in Cranberry Hallow, where she has no friends at all, for three whole months! And she's pushing her to compete in the town Halloween pageant!If Addie is going to be stuck in this town, her mother won't get away so easy…so she sets off the curse that’s been haunting her family for centuries. But she doesn’t plan on the curse turning her bones to glass and setting a 300-year-old witch hunter after her.With the aid of a monster-obsessed neighbor and a twitchy-nosed, furry friend, Addie must hunt down the ingredients necessary to break the curse before the stroke of midnight. And if she doesn’t…she might just erase magic from her family, and her town, forever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338803426
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	497,048
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Lindsay lives in a tiny apartment in Ohio where there are too many books, just the right amount of pet hair, and never enough house plants. Or peanut butter. She has a Bachelor’s in psychology and enjoys creating videos for her YouTube channel where she shares her publication journey and helps other writers along their own. YouTube: Lindsay PuckettInstagram: lindsayjmpTwitter: puckett_lindsay

Editorial Reviews

08/22/2022

The witches of the white Goode family—who share “wide hips, wide eyes, wide smiles”—have long lived in New England’s Cranberry Hollow, their presence necessary to maintain its plentiful wild magic, but an old curse forbids more than three Goodes from existing within town limits at the same time. On the cusp of Halloween, the town hosts a tourist-garnering festival, which includes a baking contest and the Miss Preteen Scary Cranberry pageant. It is then that 12-year-old baking enthusiast Adelaide Goode arrives to stay with her grandmother and aunt while her mother starts a new job. Feeling like one of the abandoned “misfit” bunnies her grandmother takes in, Adelaide triggers the curse, which transforms her bones into glass and sees her stalked by a mystical hunter that has possessed one of a local witch-hunting family. Now Adelaide and new friend Fatima, a horror-loving hijabi of Pakistani descent, must undo the spell before the hunter claims Adelaide’s soul. Puckett focuses on Adelaide’s insecurities around her comparatively weak magical talent, internalized fat phobia, and worries that she’s “never been Goode enough” for her family, slowly outlining an arc toward self-acceptance as the tween learns more about her relatives’ conflicts. Interstitials featuring the hunter’s sinister perspective both contrast and complement Adelaide’s internal mix of humor and frustration, highlighting a complex stew of emotions. Ages 8–12. Agent: Samantha Fabien, Root Literary. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Glass Witch:

"An enjoyable festive adventure. A magic filled treat." —Kirkus

From the Publisher

2022-08-31
A young witch needs to break a curse—or it will bring about her family’s demise.

There’s a rule that no more than three Goode witches can be in the town of Cranberry Hollow at a time without unleashing a curse. It has been 5 years since 12-year-old Adelaide Goode, a curvy, White, redheaded witch, and her mom have visited her mother’s hometown—where her estranged maternal aunt also lives. Feeling her mom is abandoning her at her grandmother’s house to go on a monthslong work trip, Addie does something that accidentally unleashes the curse, turning Addie’s bones to glass, awakening a witch hunter, and forcing her mom to stay. Set during Cranberry Hollow’s annual Halloween festival, the book follows Addie and new friend Fatima, a Pakistani American hijabi girl with a love of all things relating to monsters and the macabre, as they work together to try to reverse the spell. Featuring fast-paced action and high stakes, this novel also touches on Addie’s internal struggle as she strives to embrace her fat mother’s body positivity in a way that feels authentic to her age. Fatima is a crucial problem-solver for Addie, and though the friendship between the girls forms quickly, Fatima is bubbly and smart with her own goals and dreams, and she gets to be more than just a sidekick. The worldbuilding can be a bit rushed at times, but overall this is an enjoyable festive, autumnal adventure.

A magic-filled treat. (Fantasy. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews