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Multiple award-winning narrator Tavia Gilbert enchants with her rich storytelling of this delightfully dark middle-grade tale of sisterly love and goblin magic, inspired by Polish folklore and the poetry of Christina Rossetti. Lizzie and Minka are sisters, but they're nothing alike: Minka is outgoing and cheerful, while Lizzie is shy and sensitive. Nothing much ever happens in their sleepy village-until Minka meets a boy, a boy who is really a zdusze-a goblin- who bewitches her. To save her sister, Lizzie will have to find courage she never knew she had-courage to confront the impossible-and enter into a world of dreams and danger.
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Tavia Gilbert skillfully narrates this dark tale featuring two sisters in long-ago Poland, based on an 1862 poem by Christina Rossetti. At the market, beautiful, outgoing Minka is enchanted by Emil, a goblin disguised as a handsome boy who offers her forbidden fruit. Lizzie, Minka's sister, is smart, frank, and likely autistic. After eating the fruit, Minka falls sick. Gilbert conveys Minka's il
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