The Eccentric Bookshelf

Tag: Fantasy

  • Root Magic by Eden Royce

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    Root Magic by Eden Royce is a wonderful novel about a Black girl, Jezebel, and her twin brother, Jay. Jezebel and Jay live in the South in 1963, and things are taking a turn for the worse. Their dearest grandmother has just died, and the police deputy won’t stop tormenting her family. However, as Jezebel…

  • The Girl in Wooden Armour by Conrad Mason

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    The Girl in Wooden Armour by Conrad Mason is a fabulous, fantastical novel about a girl named Hattie. When Hattie visits her wacky grandmother, Deidre Gavell, for the first time in years, things don’t go as she expects. Hattie and her family arrive at her grandma’s house, but she isn’t there, seeming to have disappeared…