The spellbook of listen taylor5/13/2023 ![]() To reveal too much would detract from the pleasure of this tale, so I will only say that the Zing family (Mr. The plot starts out scattered and complicated, but the disparate threads all lead the reader to the tightly knitted heart of the center. But most of the characters are young women in their 20s and 30s, who are dealing with jobs, relationships, children, and other grown-up preoccupations. Sure, there’s a Junior High School girl named Listen, whose spells may or may not be having some intriguing and unexpected effects on the people around her. To my initial uneasiness but then vast delight, this book quickly began soaring away from any possibility of pinning it down into a category or genre. ![]() Levine imprint of Scholastic and featuring a 12-year-old girl who finds a book of spells. ![]() When I first picked up The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty, it seemed to be quite obviously YA, published as it is by the Arthur A. ![]()
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