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Gr 6–10—Deep in a nightmarish forest, scrappy Kestrel defends her isolated village from monsters, armed with a spoon, a book, and her talking weasel sidekick. This action-packed novel has plenty of twists, the biggest of which is the psychological insight into its protagonist. Kestrel's search-and-destroy mentality initially seems like a dark inversion of Pokémon, channeling a "gotta kill them all" mentality. But Kestrel is mostly after Grabbers, who steal mementos to create bod...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Trained by her abusive mum and grandmother to fight the monsters that live in their macabre forest, twelve-year-old Kestrel is helpless to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More