The Little Grey Girl

Name: The Little Grey Girl
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Celine Kiernan
ISBN: 9781978665491

Author: Celine Kiernan

Series: The Wild Magic Trilogy #2

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Ghost Stories, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup’s family is cut off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old queen’s victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever possible.

About Celine Kiernan

Celine Kiernan is the award-winning author of several novels for young people, including Into the Grey, a Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year; the Moorehawke trilogy; and Begone the Raggedy Witches, the first book in the Wild Magic trilogy. Celine Kiernan lives in Ireland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alison on April 14, 2020

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Goodreads review by Beth on August 22, 2019

I received a gratis copy of this book through NetGalley. I thoroughly enjoyed the first tale in this middle grade fantasy series, Begone the Raggedy Witches. It introduced Mup, an intelligent, compassionate girl whose father is kidnapped--by her maternal grandmother, a witch and cruel despot who is t......more

Goodreads review by Cat on May 11, 2019

Oh wow! What a brilliant story and second part of The Wild Magic trilogy! ‘The Little Grey Girl’ begins where the previous story ended with Mup and her family moving into the home once occupied by her grandmother in Witches Borough. But things are not as they seem and when it starts to snow, Mup not......more

Goodreads review by Mary on March 24, 2020

What starts out as a story of witchcraft (I confess I haven't read the first book in the series) ends up as a story about love, family and friendship. I love the paragraph on p. 129 about friendship and it's final line is magical: "A friend might not be able to draw you a map, but they can always wa......more

Goodreads review by Alex on November 25, 2019

It's moving day for Mup Taylor, her mam, dad, and little brother Tipper now that the old queen, Mup's grandmother, and her band of raggedly witches have been defeated. Of course, the old queen and her raggedly entourage aren't dead, just gone - but for how long is anybody's guess. Now, though, it's......more