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Original Title:	Incantation
ISBN:	0316010197 (ISBN13: 9780316010191)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Estrella deMadrigal
Literary Awards:	Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature (2007), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2008)

Incantation Hardcover | Pages: 166 pages

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Title	:	Incantation
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 166 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2006 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Spain. Religion. Literature. Jewish

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From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey of loss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact. Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives when those who refused conversion risked everything. Estrella's discovery that her family secretly practices the ancient way of wisdom known as kabbalah leads her to her true self and true love-but also to a devastating confrontation with unimaginable evil, unleashed by the betrayal of a friend. With themes of faith, friendship, and persecution, Alice Hoffman's tragic and beautiful novel resonates profoundly in our times.

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This book is a beautiful telling of a horrific story. Set in Spain in 1500, Estrella DeMadrigal is a normal teenage girl whose everyday life revolves around her well respected family and her best friend, Catalina. The peaceful existence of her charmed childhood is disrupted when soldiers build a bonfire of books in the towns center.This barbaric act signals a rebirth of anti-semitism and as the government decrees against Jews heighten, Estrella realizes that her family may have reason to be

This book was short and to the point. That's probably what I liked most about it. It was a beautiful story, not what I was expecting at all.

I'm a little surprised that this is a young reader book. It was hard for me to get through, not because it was a bad story but because of the realness of it. It tells a story of a Jewish family living in Spain. They live as Christians to keep themselves safe. This story is told from the daughter Estrella's point of view. She uncovers multiple secrets and she learns that no one can be trusted, not even her best friend with whom she grew up with.

This book is a beautiful telling of a horrific story. Set in Spain in 1500, Estrella DeMadrigal is a normal teenage girl whose everyday life revolves around her well respected family and her best friend, Catalina. The peaceful existence of her charmed childhood is disrupted when soldiers build a bonfire of books in the towns center.This barbaric act signals a rebirth of anti-semitism and as the government decrees against Jews heighten, Estrella realizes that her family may have reason to be

Every time I sit down and read a book about the Spanish Inquisition, I'm shocked all over again. What pointless and horrid brutality. And though I've read a story with this theme and plot before, it still impacted me.Terrific writing style and prose, though I have to say the dialogue being all italics instead of in "s is disconcerting.You have a girl in Spain during these troubled times...she notices little things. Her family crosses themselves differently, doesn't eat pork, has mysterious

I love the rich true voice of Alice Hoffman -- it seems as if each of her books takes me to a private moment in a corner of a well-developed moment of time. I've no doubt as I read that these people have lived long and well before we entered their lives at the beginning of the story, and that at least some of them will continue on long after we close the back cover (or turn off the Kindle). In this short visit to Jews trying to survive as pseudo Catholics in a dangerous time in Spain. As the

by Stephany G"Some people say, save yourself and save your life. I say, be yourself and save your soul." If one were to read this quote on would think of a wise man that had gone through many difficult situations, but this quote was of the lips of a young teenager, sixteen years of age to be exact. Incantation is one of the most intriguing yet realistic books in the market to date, showing the intensive life of many people during the period of Jewish hatred (1500).This book uses elements in