ISBN: 9781534457430
Editorial: Aladdin
Autor: Holub, Joan
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 288
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Get to know Hecate, a student of witchcraft, in this twenty-seventh Goddess Girls adventure!Eleven-year-old Hecate loves being a student at Hexwitch School but gets nervous about things that could go wrong. To try and stem her anxious feelings, she gathers all the facts about different situations—that way, she will always be prepared if disaster strikes.After stumbling into a pet cemetery, Hecate meets Melinoe, who calls herself a ghost herder. She is in charge of leading the ghosts of pets and other animals to the River Styx in the Underworld. But Melinoe doesn’t notice when one of her ghost animals follows Hecate home! More and more of the lost ghosts gather with Hecate, and she learns they have unfinished business left on Earth and refuse to enter the Underworld.The deceased pets are counting on Hecate, but Melinoe isn’t too thrilled with having competition! Can Hecate help the animals without making a new enemy?About the AuthorJoan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.Suzanne Williams is a former elementary school librarian and the author of over seventy books for children, including the award-winning picture books Library Lil (illustrated by Steven Kellogg) and My Dog Never Says Please (illustrated by Tedd Arnold), and several chapter book and middle grade series. She also coauthors the Goddess Girls and Thunder Girls series with the fantastic Joan Holub. Visit her at Suzanne-Williams.com.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter 1: Flying Broom1 Flying BroomAS HER TEACHER AND FELLOW witch-girl classmates watched, Hecate cautiously approached a magic broomstick. It hovered horizontally several feet above the ground, about five yards away, waiting for her. She was one of a very few in her grade who couldn’t yet fly. Which was embarrassing! Especially since tomorrow was her birthday and she’d be turning twelve. By that age most girls had been flying for a year or two! But maybe today was the day she’d finally win her own broom.Like the other witches here at Hexwitch School, the dark-eyed Hecate wore the standard uniform: a black chiton—which was basically a simple, flowy dress—plus red-and-white striped leggings and ankle boots. And, of course, a pointy black hat. Beneath it, her hair was long, black, and a little messy. She rarely combed it. Witches weren’t supposed to have tidy hair!Eyeing the broom, Hecate lifted a hand to fiddle with the necklace she wore—one she’d made herself. She possessed many such necklaces, each strung with small, square pieces of papyrus. Upon each piece she’d written one interesting fact she’d collected about a particular subject.The facts on this necklace were all about brooms. She muttered one of them now to calm herself. “Witch brooms are made from grass, straw, hay, corn husks, or thin sticks that are tied onto a tree branch as a handle.”For some reason, learning and speaking random information made her feel more in control, and calmed her fears about the possibility of any bad stuff happening. Hexwitch School was located on Earth. And that could be a scary place. The day she’d turned six years old, for example, she’d been chased up a tree by a dog!And that was only the beginning of her troubles with animals. Over the years she’d been scratched by a cat, nibbled by a rabbit, and pounced on by a squirrel. And a raccoon had once stolen her lunch right off the bench where she’d sat eating it! It was like she was like an animal-trouble magnet or something. If she could win her own broom today, she’d be able to make quick getaways from annoying animals and maybe other kinds of trouble too.At last, Hecate stood next to the waiting broom
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