[LM_NET] BOOK: Incantation by Hoffman

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Hoffman, Alice. Incantation. Little, Brown, 2006 [0-316-01019-7 //
978-0-316-01019-1]
Estrella is 16 and lives with a close-knit family during the Spanish
Inquisition.  She does everything with her best friend until by chance
she falls in love with the guy who is promised to her best friend.
This is the Inquisition where one must be careful about what one does
and says.  One day Estrella discovers that her family is really Jewish
and when her friend suspects, she turns Estrella's family into the
Inquisition.  This is a very powerful story.  While the 166 page book
is short, it is very heavy reading.  People are living in a society
where they must be very careful about what they say, or or even appear
to be doing. There are descriptions of burnings and torture.  It shows
an aspect of the Inquisition that one does not often hear about.  It
is a good book to balance with some of the Holocaust things.

-- 
Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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