Unfortunately this is also the plot of The Egypt Game, one of my favorite books at age 12.I need to edit to explain that I was born in 1961.
And when I read the book I bleeped out the part about how magic wasn't real. The rest of it was what I glommed onto.
As another commenter noted, that was about the same era as "Jennifer, Hecate..."... I adored that book.
Harriet the Spy was another book I read at that age. Also the Prydain books were new when I was around age 10.
I'm not sure what happened to children's lit circa 1980. I missed all that. I was in the era of older trends. A wrinkle in Time was a new rec for me. I was 10 in 1971. FWIW.
Also I was lucky enough to read LeGuin's Earthsea books in real time, and I never missed a step at relating to Ged even as a girl. All the anti feminist stuff she later regretted went right past me.
I just inhaled all the stuff I loved and needed from that trilogy and shrugged off the rest.
I apparently was a child at a Turning Point but of course was OBLIVIOUS.
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Date: 2021-04-20 01:25 am (UTC)And when I read the book I bleeped out the part about how magic wasn't real. The rest of it was what I glommed onto.
As another commenter noted, that was about the same era as "Jennifer, Hecate..."... I adored that book.
Harriet the Spy was another book I read at that age. Also the Prydain books were new when I was around age 10.
I'm not sure what happened to children's lit circa 1980. I missed all that. I was in the era of older trends. A wrinkle in Time was a new rec for me. I was 10 in 1971. FWIW.
Also I was lucky enough to read LeGuin's Earthsea books in real time, and I never missed a step at relating to Ged even as a girl. All the anti feminist stuff she later regretted went right past me.
I just inhaled all the stuff I loved and needed from that trilogy and shrugged off the rest.
I apparently was a child at a Turning Point but of course was OBLIVIOUS.