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Gr 4–8—When Kate's wood-carver father dies, she is left to support herself with her woodworking talent while living in her father's former market stall with a cat named Taggle. When Linay, a mysterious and magical stranger, comes to town and buys Kate's shadow, he gives her the money she needs to escape her village home, where people are blaming her for the hard times that have fallen on them. It is rumored that her ta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Plain Kate is a gifted carver in a town where folk believe that someone who wields a knife well is "halfway to a witch." After Linay, a traveling fiddler who himself works witchcraft, persuades Kate to trade him her shadow for "a heart's wish," Kate is banished, along with her cat, Taggle, who gains the gift of speech when Kate accepts Linay's bargain. Taken in by a caravan of Roamers, Kate makes fr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After trading her shadow for "a heart's wish," Plain Kate (along with talking cat Taggle) is banished from town. Taken...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The book presents a fully conceived world, with its own traditions, superstitions, and history. Kate is spirited and independent, and readers will struggle along with her as she makes diff...Log In or Sign Up to Read More