The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

īarnhill's books include The Unlicensed Magician, The Witch's Boy, Iron-Hearted Violet, The Mostly True Story of Jack, as well as several non-fiction titles for children. In 2017, her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the American Library Association. In 2016, her novella The Unlicensed Magician received the World Fantasy Award for Long Fiction. She also was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton Award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. She is the winner of the Parents Choice Gold Award, the Texas Library Association Bluebonnet award, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. Writing career īarnhill has received writing fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board and was a 2015 McKnight Writing Fellow in Children’s Literature. Kirkus Reviews named When Women Were Dragons one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2022.

Her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon was awarded the 2017 Newbery Medal.

Kelly Barnhill is an American author of children's literature, fantasy, and science fiction. The acclaimed author of The Witch's Boy has created another epic coming-of-age fairy tale destined to become a modern classic.The Girl Who Drank the Moon The Witch's Boy Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her-even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she's always known. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule-but Xan is far away. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own.

One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle.

They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. A young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon must unlock the dangerous magic buried deep inside her in this epic coming-of-age fairy tale from the highly acclaimed author of The Witch's Boy.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill