The Broomstick Collection: Books 14 (Witch-in-Training)
By (Author) Maeve Friel
Illustrated by Nathan Reed
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
4th December 2006
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Contains 4 paperbacks
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
246g
Join Jessica, everyones favourite witch-in-training, for four sparkling stories in one magical book.
On Jessicas tenth birthday, she discovers that she is a witch! With Miss Strega as her teacher, and a broomstick to fly, Jessica is ready to begin her training.
In Flying Lessons, she must learn how to use a broomstick with calamitous results. In Spelling Trouble, Jessica performs a Transformation spell on Miss Strega, but can she change her teacher back In Charming or What, Jessica is at summer school with an exciting new teacher, Pelagia, who used to be a pirate! In Brewing Up, Jessica and Miss Strega fly off to the Witches Market to get ingredients for their spells
Broomstick Battles
"The story has great pace, energy and interesting characters. The illustrations are lively, fun and full of enchantment.." The School LIbrarian
Maeve Friel was born in Northern Ireland and went to university in Dublin. After many years working and travelling in Spain, Italy and England, she now lives in a small village near Alicante (Spain). She has a son and a daughter. Apart from the Witch-in-Training series, she has published four novels for older readers, a book for young readers and a book of non-fiction, as well as featuring in many short story anthologies. She has been short-listed three times for the Irish Children's Book of the Year (the "Bisto"), has won a Bisto Merit Award, was twice nominated for the Reading Association of Ireland literary awards and won the Hennessy Literary Award. She has also had stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE.