Nightbird Audiobook

Quotes

• “I loved Nightbird. Such a clever mix of fantasy and reality; the fantasy is so persuasively meshed with the story that the reader accepts everything. Alice Hoffman enters brilliantly into the twelve-year-old mind and winds her account of a disordered family into the twists and turns of an elegantly crafted narrative in which past and present unite to solve a magically intriguing problem of witches, feathers, and owls.”

  — Penelope Lively, Carnegie Medal and Booker Prize–winning author

• “I love the way Alice Hoffman creates the most ordinary people and then turns their lives magical…[Nightbird] is like reentering a wonderful dream that you vaguely remember.”

  — Lois Lowry, two-time Newbery Medal–winning author

• “Once again, Hoffman works her magic to transport readers to a realm where enchantment intermingles with everyday realities…The book’s evocative setting and distinctive characters will immediately hook readers, and the history of Twig’s family, uncovered bit by bit, will keep them engaged. The risks Twig takes in reaching out to the Hall sisters bring gratifying rewards and unexpected connections to others in the community.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Hoffman juggles multiple themes: an environmental thread, with a focus on the rare owls in the woods around Twig’s home; a broken family thread (Twig hasn’t seen or heard from her father since she was a toddler); a friendship tale of outsiders finding each other; along with bits of romance, curses, and magic…[A] spunky protagonist…[and a] magical story.”

  — School Library Journal

• “The mix of romance and magic is irresistible and the tension, compelling. With the help of friends and through a series of self-realizations and discoveries, Twig grows more self-assured. She is certain she knows how to change the curse. In so doing, Twig not only changes James’ fate but her own, for the first time feeling the fullness of family, friends and hope for the future. Enchanting.”

  — Kirkus Reviews