The Witches of Worm
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 760L · 183 pages · 1972
Why we'd hand it over
A 1970s classic that still lands: ambiguous, unsettling, and structurally daring—it trusts kids to sit with uncertainty and doesn't resolve what actually happened, which feels rare and bracing.