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The Witch's Amulet: Tales from Halloweentown
This original junior novel is based on the popular characters from the four Halloweentown Disney Channel Original Movies.
It's summer break at Witch University, but Marnie and Dylan Piper have their broomsticks in high gear! Marnie has her hands full as a Resident Advisor--and is keeping an eye on her younger sister, Sophie, who has enrolled in the University's junior sorcery school. Dylan's working as a lab assistant to Professor La Biel, a powerful warlock who's developing a youth serum. But when La Biel steals The Gift, an amulet that gives its wearer ultimate power over hearts and minds, will Marnie have the power to defeat the cunning warlock, or will her entire family fall under La Biel's spell?
It's summer break at Witch University, but Marnie and Dylan Piper have their broomsticks in high gear! Marnie has her hands full as a Resident Advisor--and is keeping an eye on her younger sister, Sophie, who has enrolled in the University's junior sorcery school. Dylan's working as a lab assistant to Professor La Biel, a powerful warlock who's developing a youth serum. But when La Biel steals The Gift, an amulet that gives its wearer ultimate power over hearts and minds, will Marnie have the power to defeat the cunning warlock, or will her entire family fall under La Biel's spell?
1 pages, Audio CD
First published July 31, 2007
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October 25, 2007
This book is about a summer that has arived to halloween town but they dont mean beaches suntans and icecream it means trouble is coming. and it is up to mary to keep an eye on all the students in Mrs pipers classroom also she is wating her sister stephine and about a hour later she comes up missing and Mrs piper starts to wounder since its haloween something bad might happen and it did. So they say that its someone in there famliy that took her and they have the amulet to the family... so if you might want to stop being bored and sart reading some good books like this then hoop in and we can read aloud.....
October 8, 2008
It's good It's about a witch named Marnie.
October 19, 2010
This book is a minor scary book with a splash of action. It is a ver very detail book about witches and warlocks. For those who enjoy these types of things this would be a good book.
March 18, 2026
Tykkäsin tästä, tarina oli hyvä ja erilaisia tapahtumia oli riittävästi näin lyhyeen kirjaan. Tarinankerronta oli kyllä hyvää, mutta välillä tuntui vähän jäyköhköltäkin. Ei se kovin suuri ongelma ollut. Tykkäsin siitä, että tarinaa kirjoitettiin monen ihmisen näkökulmasta eikä vain päähenkilön.
March 31, 2011
cute little story! glad I bought it. I hope I find more of these books online. :)if you love "HALLOWEENTOWN" then this book is a must read!
October 21, 2013
This book was so fun. As cheesy as they are, I love the Halloweentown movies, and this was just a super cute addition to them.
October 13, 2023
While I love anything to do with Halloweentown, this story fell a little flat. I give stories that are intended for a younger audience a lot of leeway, but the plot felt a little convenient. Things just happened to fall together in the end, but not without random info-dumping or small details being glossed over. I mean, huge lore was randomly dropped in the last 15 pages and none of the characters bat an eye. If you're 8-12, I think you'll like this just fine, but if you're reading it for nostalgia's sake, don't.
December 6, 2018
Cute fast read. I read it in about 40 minutes. I love Halloweentown and all the characters. Its one of my all time favorite movies and I wanted to read this because of my love for the movie. Very short. Easy read. Just a quick little story to get you back in the halloweentown world for a short time. It follows Marnie, the Cromwell family and some friends at witch university. See what happens. Worth the read. Im glad I read it.
October 16, 2023
After her first year at Witch U, Marnie’s Summer is about to get crazy and unpredictable. With Sophie there to keep an eye on and Dylan working in the Science lab things seem to be going good. Until Sophie goes missing and so does the amulet. What will happen when someone isn’t who they say they are. And will they find Sophie in time? Will they be able to get the amulet back? Read and find out. You won’t be disappointed!
November 3, 2025
This was fun and nostalgic. However, I'll never be over the recasting of Marnie in the movies and I wish that the book would have honored the original cast instead. I would have enjoyed the book much more that way. I also wasn't a fan of sisters being named Aggie and Maggie.
August 2, 2018
Ihan hyvä tarina, mutta ajoittain aika kliseinen.
October 31, 2018
Extremely short; the lack of length meant that I could not really get into the book.
May 15, 2020
I love the movies and this book! Would love it if more were written!!
March 23, 2022
It was cute for a children's book. It brought back memories from my childhood. The halloweentown movies were my favorite growing up.
October 4, 2022
All the nostalgia and honestly, not horrible
July 9, 2023
It’s a fine kids book and addition to the franchise. A nice bit of world building and nostalgia, but nothing super significant. Did a great job of matching the movies’ tone tho
August 17, 2023
It was nice to have another Halloweentown story, since we’re probably never gonna get another movie!
November 3, 2023
This story feels backwards in character arcs from the 4th movie. The only part I liked is Sophie & Aggie are in the story more.
May 13, 2014
This was the cutest little book! I actually finished it about two months ago but I hadn't been around to update my Goodreads. I found this particular little gem sticking out of a box at our annual library sale. I had to have it! I grew up on/LOVE The "Halloweentown" movies and had no idea they ever made books out of them. It looks like this should be one of a series that was ongoing but I don't know if they did away with that after this book but I haven't been able to find any more info on it. Anyone know if there is more?
It was so cute and nice to reminisce on the things I loved from the movies. The spooky little Halloweentown, and the trolls and the witches house, the spells and magic, etc. Just brought back a lot of great childhood memories of watching the movies around Halloween.
It was so cute and nice to reminisce on the things I loved from the movies. The spooky little Halloweentown, and the trolls and the witches house, the spells and magic, etc. Just brought back a lot of great childhood memories of watching the movies around Halloween.
February 27, 2015
I thought that this book was very interesting with who the characters were and their personality's were weird but still interesting. I thought that this was kind of like from the animation movie batman versus dracula because the guys name was backwards which read his real name which is what they did in the animation Batman movie. But I did like how they made the mother to be all worried about going away on vacation. I also like how the author made the teenagers personality.
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