Island Witch
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Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment! —RL. Stine, author of GoosebumpsSet in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch follows the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—reentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tres to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village.Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious practices brought in by the British Colonizers, the villagers who oncerespected her father’scraft have turned on the family. Yet, they all still seem to call on him whenever supernatural disturbances arise.Now someone—orsomething—isviciously seizing upon men in the jungle. But instead of enlisting Amara’sfather’shelp, the villages have accused him of carrying out the attacks himself.As she tries to clear her father’sname, Amara finds herself haunted by dreams that eerily predict the dark forces on her island. And she can’tshake the feeling that it’sall connected to the night she was recovering from a strange illness, and woke up, scared and confused, to hear her mother’sfrantic cries: No one can find out what happened.