The Language of Spells
A Junior Literary Guild Selection, An Amazon Best Book of the Month, California Book Award.
Grisha is a dragon in a world that’s forgotten how to see him. Maggie is an odd girl who thinks she’s perfectly ordinary. They’re an unlikely duo—but magic, like friendship, is funny. Sometimes it chooses those who might not look so likely. And magic has chosen Grisha and Maggie to solve the darkest mystery in Vienna.
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Middle Grade Fiction; ages 10 up
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About forty years after the dragons arrived in Vienna, a girl child was born there. These days, of course, a girl child’s birth is a common event. However, as this girl grew, she refused to ignore what her city had forgotten. As a result, we must thank her for all that is known about Vienna’s dragons.
For the girl, Vienna was not simply a place, but an old friend who helped to raise her. She was a city child through and through; until she was eleven, she had never seen or walked through a forest.
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This book – my first middle grade – changed the way I write. I went from building plots based on how characters think to how they feel. I spent a lot of my childhood in Vienna and Grisha and Maggie let me walk through the city once more.