ISBN: 9781368020039
Editorial: Disney-Hyperion
Autor: Jantha, A. W.
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 528
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world.Diving once more into the world of witches, this New York Times bestselling two-part young adult novel, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus.Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens.Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don’t quite go as planned, it’s a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches’ latest vile scheme.For more spellbinding Hocus Pocus stories, check out these magical titles: Art of Coloring: Hocus Pocus The Hocus Pocus Spell Book Hocus Pocus: The Illustrated NovelizationAbout the AuthorExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Hocus Pocus & The All-New SequelBy A. W. Jantha Disney Book GroupCopyright © 2018 Disney Enterprises, Inc.All rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-368-02003-9CHAPTER 1Part One ThenOn All Hallows' Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground.We shall be back!And the lives of all the children of Salem shall be mine!— WinifredSandersonOctober 31, 1693Last words, as recordedin the journal of Samuel ParrisWild ThingsSALEM, 1693The world was full of wild things then. It brimmed with oak and hemlock and dark whispering places that turned you round and round until there was no turning back.The womenfolk said that on early mornings near the harbor you could hear echoes of witchsong, which sounded like birdsong but more bitter. The menfolk said godliness would save them from any witches, but they honed their axes and twisted new rope just the same.The witches said there was nothing so sweet as the shinbones of little girls. Or perhaps a well-braised scapula with sparrow spleen compote. It was all in the preparation.They lived near town, the witches, but not so near as to be a bother, until a milk cow died or a child took sick. Then the town would start to mutter about the Sanderson girls — Mary and Sarah and especially Winnie — who had not been girls for a very long time but who did not merit the title "ladies."Someone always intervened.They're no bother, someone would say. Just batty girls playing in the woods.Leave them be, someone would say. Don't you remember how kind their mother was, and how generous?It all made perfect sense at the time, but once the people of Salem left the town meeting and went back to work, not a one of them could remember who that someone had been.That is, until Emily went missing.SALEM, 1993"Knock-knocks," said Dani, grinning up at her sixteenyear-old brother as she trotted down the sidewalk. Leaves drifted through the air around them — thin slips of yellow and broad, shaggy orange things the size and shape of their dad's hands — and the morning was just starting to break open and turn the world gold.Max rolled his eyes and swung his bike in a big loop to match her slow progress. "Can you please not?"It was Halloween, and the houses on both sides of the little neighborhood street were decked out with cobwebs and tombstones, giant spiders and jack-o'-lanterns — some of which were already starting to sag a little with mold.Dani giggled as she ran through the pale tendrils of a ghost horde gathered in a tree."Ta-tas," she said, a little louder. Her pointed black hat sported a thin orange trim around the brim, whic
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