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Hailed by Newbery winner Kelly Barnhill as stunning moving and marvelously strange this tale of a young girl who stumbles into a magical realm ruled by a wicked witch is a haunting and ultimately uplifting middle grade novel about grief family and decadesold magic

Still grieving the loss of her mother Eden visits Safina Island her ancestral home as a healing balm But when she discovers an old sketchbook that belonged to her mother shes haunted by the images she sees drawn there A creepy mansion covered with roots and leaves A monstrous dog with daggersharp teeth And a tall woman with windblown hair and long sharp nails who is as beautiful as she is terrifying

Days later exploring the island alone Eden follows a black cat through a rift in the bright day She stumbles into Everdark a parallel world where the sun never rises where spirits linger between death and the afterlife and where everything from her mothers drawings is all too realespecially the Witch of Everdark who wants to make Eden her eternal daughter

Can Eden find a way to defeat the witchs magic Or will she remain trapped in Everdark forever