Lavender-Green Magic (The Magic Sequence, Bk 5)
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
A pretty world
drifting down the skyline,
as if riding a feather.
drifting down the skyline,
as if riding a feather.
The big-box-of-trade-books arrived safely today; many thanks! [It's great to be able to knock so many titles off of my wishlist!]
This one's by Andre Norton, whose work I've loved since first discovering it in the 1960s. Somehow hadn't come across this one, so I'm glad to have a chance to read it. (My favorite Norton book is Catseye, a very different tone and setting than this book.)
I enjoyed this one quite a lot, and wish I had come across it when I was younger; it's a nice kids-find-way-into-alternate-world story with some believable (and harrowing) glimpses of the witchcraft mania in colonial Massachusetts. There are also some great bits about herbalism and plants in general - and there's an intriguing twist: the protagonists are mixed-race, with the oldest girl suffering some serious (and not always ill-founded) paranoia on that account, especially when family problems force her mother to take the kids to a very-white-indeed community.
I did find a mental disconnect here - the setting felt very old-timey and British, but it's set in Massachusetts during the Vietnam War; that said, most of the current-day plot and all of the past-history one could as easily have been in rural England at almost any point in the last couple of centuries, with very little change.
This one's by Andre Norton, whose work I've loved since first discovering it in the 1960s. Somehow hadn't come across this one, so I'm glad to have a chance to read it. (My favorite Norton book is Catseye, a very different tone and setting than this book.)
I enjoyed this one quite a lot, and wish I had come across it when I was younger; it's a nice kids-find-way-into-alternate-world story with some believable (and harrowing) glimpses of the witchcraft mania in colonial Massachusetts. There are also some great bits about herbalism and plants in general - and there's an intriguing twist: the protagonists are mixed-race, with the oldest girl suffering some serious (and not always ill-founded) paranoia on that account, especially when family problems force her mother to take the kids to a very-white-indeed community.
I did find a mental disconnect here - the setting felt very old-timey and British, but it's set in Massachusetts during the Vietnam War; that said, most of the current-day plot and all of the past-history one could as easily have been in rural England at almost any point in the last couple of centuries, with very little change.
Journal Entry 3 by 
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at Little Free Library, Hollis St. in Pepperell, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, April 20, 2021
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Hollis St. in Pepperell, Massachusetts USA on Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Released 3 yrs ago (4/20/2021 UTC) at Little Free Library, Hollis St. in Pepperell, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.I left this book in this bee-decorated Little Free Library; hope someone enjoys it!
[See other recent releases in MA here.]
*** Released for the 2021 April Showers/May Flowers challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2021 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***
