02426cam a2200469 i 4500 509953266 TxAuBib 20210831120000.0 200728s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062289957 0062289950 (OCoLC)1162770297 TxAuBib rda Bachmann, Stefan. Cinders & sparrows [Middle Grade] / Stefan Bachmann. Cinders and sparrows. First edition. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. ℗2020. 358 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances. All but Zita. And Zita, unfortuntely, doesn't know the first thing about being a witch. As she begins lessons in charms and spells with her guardian, Mrs. Cantanker, Zita makes new allies - a crow, a talking marble head, two castle servants just her age named Bram and Minnifer, and the silent ghost of a green-eyed girl. But who is friend and who is foe? Zita must race to untangle her past and find the magic to save the home she's always hoped for. Because whatever claimed the souls of her family is now after her. --Inside jacket. Accelerated Reader 6.1 10.0 510411. 20210831. Witches Juvenile fiction. Witches Fiction. Good and evil Juvenile fiction. Castles Juvenile fiction. Castles Fiction. Inheritance and succession Juvenile fiction. Castles. Good and evil. Inheritance and succession. Magic. Orphans. Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. TXLIV