Review of the Day: Root Magic by Eden Royce

Root Magic
By Eden Royce
Walden Pond Press (an imprint of Harper Collins)
$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-06-289957-6
Ages 9-12
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite novels was Virginia Hamilton’s The House of Dies Drear. I don’t think I really realized at the time what a novel thing it was. Today, kids would not be particularly shocked to encounter a book that combined the long arm of slavery to the present day alongside a ghost story/treasure ala Goonies, but in the 1980s it was a standalone i...