The Conjure Book

Life is lonely for 13-year-old Jane Riggs in the historical New Englandvillage that is her new home until she discovers a four-hundred-year-oldbook of spells that really works. Guided by the ghost of the witch who wrote theconjure book, Jane embarks on a terrifying but glorious quest for magical power.Her ambition is to contact her mother, dead these ten years and remembered onlyin photographs. For such a great prize, Jane is willing to risk much among theweird creatures she conjures out of the spirit world. But she will need morethan courage when her magic follows her to school. After an evil spirit foxsteals her classmate's soul, life suddenly gets very complicated. Coming of ageamong dark, elemental powers while not missing a day of seventh grade is noteasy. And the answers Jane needs for growing up don't seem to be in the conjurebook.