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Also by Michael Gruber:

The Return, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Good Son, May 2010
Hardcover
Night of the Jaguar, April 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Witch's Boy, April 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Night of the Jaguar, March 2006
Hardcover
Valley of Bones, February 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Tropic of Night, January 2004
Paperback (reprint)

WITCH'S BOY
By: Michael Gruber

HarperCollins
April 2006
400 pages
ISBN: 0060761679
Paperback (reprint)
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Young Adult Adventure | Young Adult Science Fiction

They call him Lump. Ugly, misshapen -- more goblin than human child -- abandoned as an infant and taken in by a witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose language he learns to speak. But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human world, his innocence is no match for the depths of people's cruelty, which turns his heart to stone, and fuels a vengeance that places him and his witch mother in deadly peril. Yet these disasters also send Lump on a journey of self-discovery, to realms deep within the earth and far beyond mortal imagination.

In this stunning fantasy debut, Michael Gruber has created a world that is at once deceptively familiar and stunningly original, a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder. Readers will delight in the author's ingenious retelling of classic fairy tales and will marvel at the stunning new tale of a boy raised by a witch, a cat, a bear, and a demon.

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