Edie in Between
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical.
It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left.
According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family's legacy as local "witches."
When her mother's teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family's mystical inheritance becomes once and for all too hard to ignore. It takes Edie on a scavenger hunt to find objects that once belonged to her mother, each one imbued with a different memory. Every time she touches one of these talismans, it whisks her to another entry inside the journal--where she watches her teenage mom mourn, love, and hope just as Edie herself is now doing.
But as Edie discovers, there's a dark secret behind her family's practice that she's unwittingly released. She'll have to embrace--and master--the magic she's always rejected...before it consumes her.
Tinged with a sweet romance with the spellbinding Rhia, who works at the local occult shop, Edie in Between delivers all the cozy magic a budding young witch finding her way in the world needs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Athletic, logical, white rising high school junior Edie Mitchell, 17, rejected her inherited magic three years ago. But after her mother dies and Edie moves from Baltimore to her maternal grandmother GG's houseboat in tiny Cedar Branch, Md., her birthright has become more difficult to deny, especially with her ancestors' ghosts always hovering nearby. When Edie inadvertently awakens a malevolent spirit, she must rely on two new friends and her mother's diary—written when she was 18, a year before Edie's birth—plus a scavenger hunt that her mother left behind to understand her familial inheritance and embrace her true self. Alternating between Edie's perspective and her mother's 2003 journal entries, Sibson (The Art of Breaking Things) deftly mirrors their experiences with parental loss and personality elements, adding emotional depth to the tender depiction of grief while allowing two romances to develop: one leading to Edie's conception, and the other a sweet first for Edie, who feels sparks of attraction for the first time with occultist Rhia, who is Black. Ages 12–up.
