“Readers will feel the chill of the frost and smell the crackling bonfires.”
School Library Journal (starred review)
Witchlanders
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High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future…
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Published by Atheneum (S&S), Fall 2011 Hardcover, 400 pages ISBN-10: 1442420049 ISBN-13: 9781442420045 Grades: 7 and up x High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated? But when a...
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I’m delighted that my first book, WITCHLANDERS, has received this lovely award from the SCBWI, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. This award is especially meaningful for me because it has been given to me by my peers.
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Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.