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Gr 5-8 Fantasy and intrigue blend in a mythical medieval land where good and evil are not always clearly distinguishable. When the story opens, 12-year-old Makenna has just witnessed the murder of her mother, the local hedgewitch, by decree of a priest of the Hierarch, aided by the villagers whom Makenna's mother had always helped. Angry and bitter, the grieving girl seeks revenge on the village and runs away into the woods, where she encounters and befriends the goblins-a small, magical race of people ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Under the "Decree of Bright Magic," lesser magical beings such as hedgewitches, seers, and goblins have been declared minions of the Dark One and are to be destroyed; hence Makenna, a young hedgewitch, allies herself with the goblins after her mother's execution for witchcraft and becomes their general in a fight against human efforts to exterminate them. Meanwhile, in a losing war against southern invaders, young Sir Tobin is wrongly arrested for treason; when a powerful priest offers him a chance to redeem his name, Tobin agrees to a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More