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McNicoll, Elle, author.

A kind of spark / Elle McNicoll.

First American edition.

New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]

179 pages ; 22 cm

2021

Perfect for readers of Song for a Whale and Counting by 7s, a neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different. "A must-read for students and adults alike." -School Library Journal, Starred Review Ever since Ms. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I can t stop thinking about them. Those people weren t magic. They were like me. Different like me. I m autistic. I see things that others do not. I hear sounds that they can ignore. And sometimes I feel things all at once. I think about the witches, with no one to speak for them. Not everyone in our small town understands. But if I keep trying, maybe someone will. I won t let the witches be forgotten. Because there is more to their story. Just like there is more to mine. Award-winning and neurodivergent author Elle McNicoll delivers an insightful and stirring debut about the European witch trials and a girl who refuses to relent in the fight for what she knows is right.

8-12 Brodart.

3-7 Brodart.

Lexile: 580.

Autistic girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Autistic girls -- Fiction.

Autism -- Fiction.

Autism -- Fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / Special Needs.

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Bullying.

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship.

Scotland -- Juvenile fiction.

Scotland -- Fiction.

School Library Journal, September 01, 2021

Horn Book, November 01, 2021

Publishers Weekly, October 25, 2021

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, October 01, 2021

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