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Kiki’s Delivery Service

by Eiko Kadono

Unconditional Recommendation: Half-witch Kiki with her black cat Jiji follow witch tradition and fly off to find a new town to make home for her 13^th year in this darling coming-of-age story.

Age: Middle Grade

Series: Stand Alone

Pages: 193

Published: 2020 (U.S. Translation); 1985 (original Japanese)

Genre: Fantasy

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

Unconditional Recommendation: Katherine “Kit” Tyler must learn to live in a Puritan community with her relatives but befriends the Witch of Blackbird Pond and risks being persecuted as a witch herself.

Age: Young Adult

Series: Stand Alone

Pages: 256

Published: 1958

Genre: Historical

Awards: Newbery Medal (1959), Dorothy Canfeld Fisher Children’s Book Award (1960)