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The Witches

by Roald Dahl

Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 730L · 2009

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Why we'd hand it over

Dahl at his darkest and funniest—witches are genuinely menacing, the stakes feel real, but the boy's scrappy resourcefulness and the grandmother's rock-solid love make it empowering, not traumatizing.

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