The Magic Pawnshop: A New Years Eve Fantasy

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Written by Rachel Field, author of the Newberry Award-winning childrens book, Hitty, comes a fantastical tale of one girls journey into a magic pawnshop and the small adventures that lie within.

On a cold New Years Eve night, nine-year-old Prinda Bassett ventures out into the snow in hopes of finding a cure for her dreadfully ill Uncle Oliver. Heading straight to a pawnshop that had been an object of her curiosity, Prinda is excited by two placards in the window that read, Broomsticks Our Specialty, and A Small Supply of Magic On Hand For Regular Customers, in faint gold-lettering.

Going in, she is greeted by the kind witch Miss Minerva Mac Loon who agrees to make her cureso long as she can manage the shop while Miss Minerva replenishes her magic. Accepting the terms of the agreement, Prinda takes charge as an assistant of the shop, unknowingly setting herself up for a fantastically eccentric New Years Eve.

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Rachel Field (1894--1942) was an American novelist, poet and decorated children's book author. Field had a prolific literary career that began with the publication of her first volume of poetry The Pointed People (1924) and ended with a posthumously published children's book Prayer for a Child (1944) which would go on the win a Caldecott Medal in 1945. Over the course of two decades, she would publish award-winning children's fiction such as Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929) and Calico Bush (1931); as well as critically acclaimed literary fiction such as Time Out of Mind (1935) and And Now tomorrow (1942); enjoying critical and commercial success both in print and on the silver screen.