A Spell Is Cast

by Eleanor Cameron

Hardcover, 1964

Status

Available

Call number

808.8

Genres

Children's Books

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Little Brown & Co (1964), Hardcover, 271 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member ThorneStaff

Cory feels like she doesn't belong to anyone. She is an orphan hoping to be adopted by the only mother she has ever known. While her mother is traveling, Cory is sent to her (foster) grandmother and uncle's house . Mysteries unfold about the family, and why Cory hasn't been adopted yet. In a

desperate quest to find out where she really belongs, Cory must put together the clues, and she is helped in part by her new friend Peter.

Older readers might be able to figure out themystery much sooner than Cory does, but it is still fun to read how it all plays out. I had a small difficulty in relating to some of the characters, especially Cory, who at times seems needy, but no wonder when I discover more about her. Some of the minor characters seem completely flat, either just acting as props (almost) or are unaccountably hostile. It would have been nice for them to be more fully drawn. But these are my only complaints. Overall, the book is interesting and easy to read.

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LibraryThing member bxhaughton

Being of the left-handed persuasion, I found it interesting how Cory's caury-fistedness figured into the story. (The Scots apparently think, quite unlike most ethnic groups, that lefties are enchanted and to be valued. After several of Irish nuns' attempts to make me right-handed, and completely

failing, I was eventually left alone to my perverted inclinations. ;-))

It's a sweet story of a young girl's attempt to find a home, with an equally sweet conclusion. Cameron was a master of her genre. May she rest in peace. (For what it's worth, she was left-handed. ;-))

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