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Wise Child
Monica Furlong

When Wise Child’s grandmother, woman with whom she lived, dies, Wise Child is taken by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Juniper is extremely kind to Wise Child and she teaches her many useful things such as reading, herbal lore, and even the beginnings of magic. Everything was going well until one day, Maeve, Wise Child’s natural mother ( a black witch) reappeared. Maeve desperately wanted Wise Child to leave Juniper and to go and live with her and so, she tries to convince her that life at her house would be much better offering her many gifts and luxuries. Forced to choose between Juniper and Maeve, Wise Child discovers the extent of her supernatural powers and her true loyalties. By this time, though, Maeve's evil magic, a mysterious plague (many of the village’s people get smallpox and Fillian Priest says it’s Juniper’s fault ), and the fears of superstitious villagers combine to place Wise Child and Juniper in what may be inescapable danger.... Infact, Juniper gets arrested and Fillian Priest also decides to kill her. Luckily, Wise Child and her friend Colman are able to get Juniper’s prison’s keys and save her before the execution. After that, Juniper and Wise Child escape, because they can’t remain in the village where everyone hates them and wants to see them dead. While they are escaping, Wise Child and Juniper see Finbar’s ( Finbar is Wise Child’s father) ship and so, they escape with him, forming a new, happy family.