<p>“I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical. . . . [<i>Nightbird</i>] is like reentering a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember.” —Lois Lowry, two-time Newbery Medal–winning author of<i>The Giver</i><br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>In her first novel for middle-grade readers , bestselling author Alice Hoffman tells a bewitching story of love and friendship that is truly magical.<br>&nbsp;<br>Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster. And two hundred years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig’s family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, everything will change when the red moon rises. It’s time to break the spell.<br>&nbsp;<br><b>What Other Authors Are Saying</b><br>&quot;I loved <i>Nightbird.</i> Such a clever mix of fantasy and reality; the fantasy is so persuasively meshed with the story that the reader accepts everything. Alice Hoffman enters brilliantly into the twelve-year-old mind and winds her account of a disordered family into the twists and turns of an elegantly crafted narrative in which past and present unite to solve a magically intriguing problem of witches, feathers and owls.&quot; —Penelope Lively, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Booker Prize<br>&nbsp;</p>