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Halloween is tomorrow, and our featured titles this week include the story of an outcast whose skills are mistaken for witchcraft in 1687, and a fable about a tree who protects a family in the neighborhood after they've been made to feel unwelcome.
From all of us at QuakerBooks, have a safe and spook-tacular Halloween!
In the Light,
Audrey Greenhall, Manager for QuakerBooks
Featured Titles for October 30th, 2018
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
By Elizabeth George Speare
Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met.
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Wishtree
By Katherine Applegate
An old red oak tree shares the story of how he and his crow friend Bongo helped their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
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