The Magic Finger
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · January 22, 2009
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes the story of a young girl with an incredible power!
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, fantastical clash between a child’s fury and a family’s hunting fun.
- Themes
- Opposition to hunting, Anger and its consequences, Magical transformation
- Pacing
- Fast
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From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes the story of a young girl with an incredible power! To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them.
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When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems….
Anger Takes Flight
A sharp, fantastical clash between a child’s fury and a family’s hunting fun.
Come here for
- Roald Dahl’s knack for turning a moral disagreement into magical trouble
- A mischievous story where anger has startling consequences
Expect
- A young girl’s Magic Finger turns the Greggs into birds
- Comic mayhem, with the family suddenly nesting instead of hunting
Where it sits
| Magic & Fantasy | 77% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 65% |
| Ducks & Geese | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ducks & Geese
- Magic & Fantasy
- Big Feelings
- Authors
- Roald Dahl
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- January 22, 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Opposition to hunting · Anger and its consequences · Magical transformation
- Reading lane
- Ducks & Geese