by Laura Amy Schlitz · Bloomsbury Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408826218
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«Fire Spell» is Laura Amy Schlitz's young adult fantasy novel, published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in hardcover (401 pages, in English).
Clara, a rich and lonely girl, hires a puppeteer and his two young orphaned assistants for a puppet show in her huge house. Grisini kidnaps her and locks her inside a puppet; the assistants realize what has happened, and the three children become trapped in the supernatural struggle between Grisini and a dying witch.
Originally published in the United States as «Splendors and Glooms»; it received a Newbery Honor in 2013.
Suitable for readers aged 9 and up, it combines fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction.
