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Title	:	The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Author	:	Kelly Barnhill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 388 pages
Published	:	August 9th 2016 by Algonquin Young Readers
Categories	:	Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult

The Girl Who Drank the Moon Hardcover | Pages: 388 pages

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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 and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and deliver 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 enmagicked girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. To keep young Luna safe from her own unwieldy power, Xan locks her magic deep inside her. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule--but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her--even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she’s always known.

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Original Title:	The Girl Who Drank the Moon
ISBN:	1616205679 (ISBN13: 9781616205676)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal (2017), Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2017), Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee (2018), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2018), Andre Norton Award Nominee (2016) William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominee (2019), NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor Book (2017)

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The beauty of this book begins with its magical title: The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Luna is enmagicked as a baby by being fed the silvery honeyed moon beams. I was both jealous of that experience and yet felt kinship with it - how often have I felt graced by the gentle silvery radiance of moonlight! Of course, this being a fantasy novel,Luna's magic was more tangible! The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a fabulous work of fantasy pulling strongly on the art of storytelling and richly imbued with

This book was a whimsical treasure of a book. It's one of those middle grade books that works on two levels, like a Pixar movie. Middle graders will love the story just for the story (even if some of the deeper themes woven in go over their head; not discounting children readers, though, we don't give them enough credit), but adults will also find a lot of deeper meaning to the book. This is a story for EVERYONE to enjoy. Beautiful writing, quirky, lovable characters (like a big-hearted and wise

Update: 3-3.5 stars I really didnt feel comfortable giving this book 4 stars. I have a lot of friends who LOVED this book and I really wanted to love it too but just couldnt. I didnt dislike this book, there was some beautiful writing in it, but I cant bring myself to rate it any higher. some minor spoilers ahead It started slow for me and I was terrified I was going to not enjoy this book. A lot of my friends recommended it, and all wrote glowing reviews. It sounded right up my alley. I love

4.5 starsTo be honest, the blurb for this book was TL;DR but I picked it up based on the title and cover alone. That's almost a sure way to be disappointed, I know, but in this case it worked out!So, what do you get when you take:-a kind and clever witch-a poetry reciting swamp monster-an adorably naive Perfectly Tiny Dragon who believes he's actually a Simply Enormous Dragon-a girl whose magic cannot be containedMix in a volcano, a town swamped with sorrow, add heaping spoonfuls of starlight,

4 1/2 stars.This is the story of a little baby girl sent to die but who is adopted by a good witch instead. Without meaning to, the Witch pours magic into Luna but, instead of letting her draw from her magic, she bounds it until Lunas thirteenth birthday.Incidentally, that is the day the Witch decides to let herself die. But that day is coming and coming, closer and closer, and the Witch starts to regret her decision.There obviously is more happening in the story than only that. In fact, we have

Look at that beaut' of a cover guys! How could anyone walk past this in a bookstore and NOT want to read it?! And then the blurb: witches, tiny dragons, swamp monsters, lunar magic...this book had all the ingredients for me to drop everything and just read! Which is why it turned out to be even more disappointing than it would've been without the great expectations...Oh, where to start?! The first 10% was fabulous. After that:I'll just divide this review into pros and cons to make it easier for

Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. The people of the Protectorate leave a baby deep in the forest each year, a sacrificial offering made to a witch to deter her from terrorizing the village. When the witch, Xan, finds the babies, she feeds them starlight, but one year she accidentally pulls light from the moon and enmagicks a baby girl. Xan knows that the baby imbued with moonlight will have extraordinary abilities, so she decides to raise