Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft
2018
Book
History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure - and to kill. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients - and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is sceptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualised murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls in love with an altar boy. A theatre production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. In Reconstruction-era Texas, a water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power in order to destroy their captors. This collection reveals a universal truth: there's nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.
Main title:
Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft / edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe.
Author:
Spotswood, Jessica, editorSharpe, Tess, editor
Edition:
First Australian paperback edition.
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : HQ Young Adult, 2018.©2018.
Collation:
415 pages ; 20 cm.
Audience:
Interest age level: Ages: 12+.
Contents:
Starsong / Tehlor Kay Merjia -- Afterbirth / Andrea Cremer -- Heart in her hands / Tess Sharpe -- Death in the sawtooths / Lindsay Smith -- Truth about Queenie / Brandy Colbert -- Moonapple menagerie / Shveta Thakrar -- Legend of Stone Mary / Robin Talley -- One who stayed / Nova Ren Suma -- Divine are the stars / Zoraida Córdova -- Daughters of Baba Yaga / Brenna Yovanoff -- Well witch / Kate Hart -- Beware of girls with crooked mouths / Jessica Spotswood -- Love spell /rAnna- Gherin girls / Emery Lord -- Why they watch us burn / Elizabeth May.
ISBN:
9781489264657 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
346670