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Title details for The Witches by Roald Dahl - Wait list

The Witches

by Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
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"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
This is a story about REAL WITCHES.
Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.
But they are far from ORDINARY . . .
The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.
That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .
The text in this edition of The Witches was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

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Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780141930176
  • Release date: September 6, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780141930176
  • File size: 35552 KB
  • Release date: September 6, 2007

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Juvenile Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:4.7
Lexile® Measure:590
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:2-3

"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."
This is a story about REAL WITCHES.
Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.
But they are far from ORDINARY . . .
The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.
That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .
The text in this edition of The Witches was updated in 2022 for young independent readers.

Expand title description text
Juvenile Fiction