But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone f….

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems..

Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly ….

A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his….

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface..

If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a chi….

She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is th….

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight..

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit..

Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully ab….

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the surface and then the….

I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someo….

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth..

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will..

He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi….

This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with a great sense of dread. It hit her with a strange….

Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there wer….

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would sa….

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into t….

People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. ….

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying..