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Lavender-Green Magic
Lavender-Green Magic | Andre Norton
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With their father missing in action in Vietnam, Holly and her siblings end up in a time warp as they race to free their town from a witchs curse When Holly, Judy, and Crockett Wade are sent to live with their grandparents after their father is declared MIA in Vietnam, Holly fears shell never fit in at school. The small town of Dimsdale, Massachusetts, is nothing like Boston. Even worse, Grandma and Grandpa Wade live in an overgrown house next to the town dump, a place without electricity or running water! None of the dishes match, and Hollys grandparents are always bringing back other peoples odds and ends. But an old, smelly pillow embroidered with broken circles leads to strange dreamsand a maze in the junkyard! At first, when Holly and her brother and sister walk through an opening in the maze, they dont realize theyve entered another time. But theyre back in colonial New England, where they meet a healer named Tamarand suddenly Holly is caught in the crossfire between dueling witches. Forced to keep their time-traveling a secret, the three siblings race to save Tamar and their town. Lavender-Green Magic is the 5th book in the Magic Sequence, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Leftcoastzen
Lavender-Green Magic | Andre Norton
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#FlowersOnThecover A Norton from 1977. I love this cover! #MagnificentMarch

OriginalCyn620 🌸📚🌼 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 🌸 5y
LeahBergen This is an old childhood favourite! 💕💕 5y
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen I saw your old post, I found it not so long ago, hope to read it one day. 5y
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LeahBergen
Lavender-Green Magic | Andre Norton
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#Magic

These two childhood faves were my first introduction to time travel in fiction (and I‘m afraid to read them again in case my fond memories are spoiled 😬). I‘ve never met anyone else who has read them!

#NuYear

MayJasper I've not read them 7y
rubyslippersreads I haven't read them, but now I want to. 😊 7y
LauraBeth I love me some time travel! 7y
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2BR02B They both have fantastic covers. 😍 7y
Cinfhen Never got into time travel but it's a prompt for #pop18 so... 7y
Larkken I ❤️ lavender green magic! Good memory. Norton was my intro to a lot of awesomeness in fantasy. 7y
TrishB These look wonderful. I love time travel books. Like you though sometimes I don‘t want to spoil the memories! 7y
rockpools These look💖! I'd never heard of Andre Norton - might have to track them down. 7y
StaceyKondla My first fantasy series was the Witchworld series by Andre Norton - so much goodness 😊 7y
LeahBergen @MayJasper @rubyslippersreads @LauraBeth @2BR02B @Cinfhen @TrishB @RachelO Thanks - and you can‘t beat the snazzy ‘70s covers. 😂 7y
LeahBergen @Larkken You are the only other person I‘ve met who‘s read it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
LeahBergen @StaceyKondla These are the only Nortons I‘ve read. 😀 7y
LeahBergen @Leftcoastzen See? 😆😆 5y
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