Half Bad by Sally Green is a breathtaking debut novel about one boy's struggle f
or survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you
heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark.
Yo
u hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage s
ince you were fourteen. All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Bla
ck Witch who eats boys.
And do that before your seventeenth birthday. Easy. "
A book about witches with no owls and not a pair of round spectacles in sight.