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The Reading Teacher called the book a "well written, engaging addition to the Dear America series." [ 3 ] Writing in the Western Journal of Black Studies , Nancy J. Dawson praised the fact that "it by no means sugarcoats the ugly-harsh realities of slavery," and concluded that it is "a significant and eloquent work of juvenile fiction."
Gillian Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) Queenie Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) Rolanda Hooch (Harry Potter) Mafalda Hopkirk (Harry Potter) Cynthia Horrocks (The New Worst Witch) Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble (The New Worst Witch) Mildred Hubble (The Worst Witch) Cassie Hughes ; Bonnie Hyper ; I. Icy ; Indigo (Sofia the First)
The Spellsong Cycle is a fantasy series written by L. E. Modesitt Jr. Set in the fictional world of Erde, it is notable for its system of magic, based on music and song.. The main character of the first three books of the series is Anna Marshall, a middle-aged music instructor and small-time opera singer who is magically transported from Ames, Iowa to Erde, a fantastical world where songs have ...
The third task, the Sorceress' challenge was a colour sequencing game where players chose coloured flasks and would have to repeat the sequence that they were shown in. Players then advanced to meet The Elder, who asked them a set of knowledge questions about the books and were given a coloured aura depending on their scores and time taken in ...
Polgara the Sorceress begins with Ce'Nedra entreating Polgara to write a book about her life, filling in the gaps left by her father's story, Belgarath the Sorcerer.The main part of the story thus begins, revealing that Polgara and her twin sister Beldaran were raised by their adoptive uncles, the deformed Beldin and the twin sorcerers Beltira and Belkira (all disciples of Aldur, like ...
The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies originally edited by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books.As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the subgenre of sword and sorcery.
The book begins with a prologue three hundred years before the main story. At the conclusion of a conflict called The Sorceress War, a wizard named Wigg is in charge of exiling the four leaders of the sorceress army across an impassable ocean. The sorceresses cannot simply be executed since all wizards take an oath not to kill any innocents ...
Today, the book is regarded as being largely inaccurate, but still notable for being one of the first sympathetic histories of witchcraft, and as such it may have had an indirect influence on Wicca. [6] Michelet uses a mix of scholarly research and imaginative storytelling that makes the book more accessible to readers.