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Witch Week (Chrestomanci #3)

Diana Wynne Jones

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 12468 Users | 505 Reviews

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Original Title:	Witch Week
ISBN:	0060298790 (ISBN13: 9780060298791)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Chrestomanci #3
Characters:	Nan, Chrestomanci, Christopher Chant, Mr Crossley, Charles, Mr Wentworth

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There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are nervous -- especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all.

Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, and The Lives of Christopher Chant.

Someone in the class is a witch. At least so the anonymous note says. Everyone is only too eager to prove it is someone else -- because in this society, witches are burned at the stake.

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Title	:	Witch Week (Chrestomanci #3)
Author	:	Diana Wynne Jones
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2001 by Greenwillow Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Magic. Middle Grade. Paranormal. Witches

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My friends, you should have been much more evangelical about Diana Wynne Jones. I could have been reading her for the past thirty years. Shame on all of you. I feel like I've wasted half my life.

I think it is too harsh for its intended readers - middle grade. And too didactic for the adults. The usual author's charm is missing from this book as well. Definitely not my favorite.

Clever, but boring: an odd combination.

I had a wonderful time rereading this old favorite. This tale is set in one of Diana Wynne Jones' alternate worlds, an anomalous modern-day one in which witchcraft is real and witches are burned at the stake, though the world is otherwise civilized. It seems that at least one of the children in a government boarding school for the orphans of witches is secretly a witch. It will be up to the enchanter Chrestomanci, with the help of some of the students, to put things to rights. Great fun, like

(2020 re-read)Everything I wrote in my reviews of my re-reads of i>Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant applies again here, in spades. Again I see DWJ being unflinching about people: of course a British boarding school is a good setting to show teenagers showing their best and their worst sides. There isn't really a villain as such in this novel, unless you count the Inquisitor at the end, but he's nasty because (again) he can't or won't doesn't see people as people but as things.

Jones continues her delightfully nonchalant Chrestomanci series with Witch Week, set in a boarding school in a dimension very much like our own - except one with magic galore. magic that can get you burned alive. hide, little witches, hide! no one wants to see a child on a pyre.for a children's book, this is surprisingly grim and tense. the tone is still light, dry, and rather deadpan, but the potential outcome for many of the young characters - and the flashbacks to a particular witch dying by

This is the weakest Jones book I have read. All of the children have problems and are not really likeable. A treatise against boarding schools? May be a 3, but I was quite disappointed. I expect better from Jones.