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Title:  Witch Week
Series:  Chronicles of Chrestomanci (Vol II)
Author:  Diana Wynne Jones
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Reviewer:  Andrew D. '11

Witch Week is about a class in a world that shouldn’t exist. In the unusual class of 6B a mysterious note materializes between two geography books a worried teacher, Mr.Crossley, is correcting. The note states a member of the disorderly 6B class is a witch.

In this odd world being able to perform the unique art of magic is considered worthy of condemnation to death. Various members of the 6B class discover that they are liable to be burned at the stake, they flee in fear then they embark on a journey that may be to their advantage or their undoing. - Forever.

This epic tale of amazing skill and witty quips is best read by the adventurous type. In this tale, in which magic is boldly outlined, the writer makes a decline on the strictly realistic. She creates a dreamland though not perfect this imaginary world blossoms under the pen of a person with a passion.

In this charming brief deviation from the ordinary, teachers think they’ve gone round the bend, students think they’ll die tomorrow, and the onlookers raise an amused eyebrow during it all. This book is the last of the Crestomanci series and I advise you read the rest of the series. Which I will now list:

                                                

1-Charmed Life

2-The Lives of Christopher Chant

 3-The Magicians of Caprona

4-Witch Week

5-Mixed Magics.

Summer 2003

 
Reviewer:  Troy D. '10

The world in this book is much like ours. It has all of the
inventions and all of the famous people. One thing that is
different is that they have magic. When someone is caught doing magic they are burned!

Charles Morgan and Nan Pilgrim go to a boarding school
called Larwood House.  Larwood House is for orphans and children whose parents cannot keep them at home. Some of the children at Larwood House are orphans of the witches that were burned.

Charles Morgan and Nan notice that strange things are
happening his first year.  Dan Smith hides Charles's running shoes and he cannot find them anywhere. When Charles is being chased, he ends up making himself invisible by mistake!

Later Nan Pilgrim discovers that she can ride a broomstick.  They team up to run away, and realize that it must take a very strong spell to save them from being burned. They call on the Chrestomanci.

Read the book and find out what happens to them. Read how they discover that their class, 6B, is full of witches. You will also learn how they put their world into ours so no one else gets burned!!

Winter 2002/2003

Reviewer:   Ilana R. '07

Witch Week is about kids who are put in boarding school for all types of reasons. Many of them are witch orphans. The law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. One of the teachers finds a note that says, "Someone in 6B is a witch." A couple incidents happen and the head mistress calls the inquisitor. All the kids who know they are witches run away, but they all find each other again. Two of the kids find a spell, but they don’t know what it does. Will they use the spell or will they get caught by the inquisitor?

04/04/00


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