The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)

Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016 Named to KirkusReviewsΓÇÖ Best Books of 2016 2017 Booklist Youth EditorsΓÇÖ Choice Every year,the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the ForestXanis kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forestnourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One yearXan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlightfilling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girlwhom she calls Lunaas her own. As LunaΓÇÖs thirteenth birthday approachesher magic begins to emerge–with dangerous consequences. Meanwhilea young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcanoquiet for centuriesrumbles just beneath the earthΓÇÖs surface. And the woman with the TigerΓÇÖs heart is on the prowl . . . The Newbery Medal winner from the author of the highly acclaimed novel The WitchΓÇÖs Boy.