Cattywampus

Name: Cattywampus
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ash Van Otterloo
ISBN: 9781666155945

Author: Ash Van Otterloo

Narrator: Raechel Wong

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/16/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

In the town of Howler's Hollow, conjuring magic is strictly off-limits. Only nothing makes Delpha McGill's skin crawl more than rules. So when she finds her family's secret book of hexes, she's itching to use it to banish her mama's money troubles. She just has to keep it quieter than a church mouse—not exactly Delpha's specialty.

Trouble is, Katybird Hearn is hankering to get her hands on the spell book, too. The daughter of a rival witching family, Katy has reasons of her own for wanting to learn forbidden magic, and she's not going to let an age-old feud or Delpha's contrary ways stop her. But their quarrel accidentally unleashes a hex so heinous it resurrects a graveyard full of angry Hearn and McGill ancestors bent on total destruction. If Delpha and Katy want to reverse the spell in time to save everyone in the Hollow from rampaging zombies, they'll need to mend fences and work together.

Fans of A Snicker of Magic and The Witch Boy will love this funny, folksy, fresh debut from Ash Van Otterloo that proves sometimes it takes two witches to make the strongest magic happen.

About Ash Van Otterloo

Ash Van Otterloo is the author of Cattywampus. When they're not writing and freelance editing, they love gardening, hiking, exchanging playful banter, and collecting folklore stories. A longtime resident of the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, they now live in Washington with their spouse and four feral children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ash on April 03, 2021

I'm partial to it!......more

Goodreads review by Terri on April 18, 2020

My advanced reader copy arrived just at the beginning of the current pandemic and it was an utterly delightful diversion from all that has been going on. Cattywampus is delightful story of rival families, forbidden magic, and making really big mistakes that can only be fixed by working together. It......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on July 05, 2020

I had the absolute pleasure of getting an advanced reader copy of this book! I wish I had a book like this as a tween! This is exactly the kind of vibe I would have obsessed over! I love seeing characters I would’ve related too as a kid!!!!......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on January 20, 2020

This book is a complete and utter delight! It's rare that an author writes a book with magic and yet so deftly roots it into a very real place with very real people. So often characters who can do magic are just a little removed somehow from the world where we readers live but I felt as if the chara......more

Goodreads review by Dax on September 24, 2020

Gahhh! This is amazing! This book is full of magic and beautifully showcases the doubts, love, and unconscious biases towards folks who are intersex. To have a junior book have a main character who is intersex, another who is fighting terribly to never let anyone in (or else they'll leave like every......more