Description
For younger fans of Witchlings and Eva Evergreen comes a light-hearted and whimsical middle grade fantasy about a young girl who must save her witch aunt from an uncommonly voracious hat. Where dragons take flight, through the dark of the night. Where the fire ignites, you will find the light. Aunt Cauldroneyes is always looking into cauldrons. She's found everything from giggling moons to troll nose rings, but when she looks inside a purple cauldron one stormy night, she finds a girl with blue freckles. The old witch raises the girl and names her Spella. They live in Hungry Snout Forest in a crooked house with doors enchanted to smell like chocolate. In the attic full of floating fabric and biting buttons, Aunt Cauldroneyes teaches Spella how to make magical hats for creatures like unicorns and dragons, giants and goblins. When Spella turns eight, she receives an invitation to Dragon's Knob, a school for wand witchery and wizardry. But on the very night Spella is set to leave, a stranger appears with a growling hat that swallows Aunt Cauldroneyes and steals her away! To rescue her aunt, Spella must go up into a sky full of dragons and to her new school. With protesters outside the gates threatening the school's academic freedom and a deepening mystery within the walls, Spella and her new friend Tolden are thrust into the mystery of her aunt's disappearance and a long-buried secret hidden somewhere in the school.
Author: Tiffany McDaniel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781665955300
ISBN10: 1665955309
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
Author: Tiffany McDaniel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781665955300
ISBN10: 1665955309
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
About the Author
Tiffany McDaniel is the internationally bestselling author of Betty, The Summer That Melted Everything, On the Savage Side, A Sky Full of Dragons, and The Mummy Snatcher Curse. Drawing from her Cherokee heritage, she is a poet, a novelist, and a visual artist. She is the winner of over a dozen literary prizes, including The Guardian's Not the Booker, the Ohioana Reader's Choice Award, Friends of American Writers Chicago, the Society of Midland Authors, and the FNAC. She lives with cats and a dog surrounded by the trees and wildlife that she loves. When not writing, she may be found in the garden or walking in the woods. Tiffany was awarded the prestigious title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in July 2021.

