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Kelly Barnhill

Minneapolis
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Novels about toppling tyrants and the meek inheriting the earth. World Fantasy Award. Newbery medal. NYT bestseller. National Book Award finalist.
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The Witch's Boy Book Review

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By Kelly Barnhill, Sally Engelfried
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age 10+ Exciting, moving magical adventure explores love and greed. Parents need to know that Kelly Barnhill​'s The Witch's Boy has some deeply heartbreaking moments, such as parents losing a son, a boy losing his twin brother, and a daughter losing both her parents. There's peril and violence, including bandits trying to kill the children, and several people injured or killed in a war. A mother wolf is shot and killed.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon Book Review

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By Kelly Barnhill, Jan Carr
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age 10+ Entrancing fantasy spun with magic stresses power of love. Parents need to know that The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (The Witch's Boy) is an expertly crafted fantasy with spiritual undertones, and it won the 2017 Newbery Medal. It has a strong female protagonist, Luna, described as having curly black hair and amber skin. Luna's taken from her family and saved by a kindhearted witch who lovingly raises her but accidentally imbues her with magical powers.
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The Ogress and the Orphans Book Review

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By Kelly Barnhill, Mary Eisenhart
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age 10+ Parable of books, kindness, inclusion gets heavy handed. Parents need to know that The Ogress and the Orphans, by Newbery Medal recipient Kelly Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon), is a parable about kindness, empathy, neighborliness, civic-mindedness, and the importance of libraries, in which the title characters -- scorned and mistreated by townspeople -- befriend and protect one another, to the betterment of all.
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