Can one twelve-year-old girl fight a witch?

Exiled from her village for accidentally using advanced magic, Suli must either become a wise woman or be shunned as a witch.

Apprenticed to the wise woman Tala, Suli's magical education is cut short when a witch kidnaps her teacher to learn the secret of shape-shifting.

Suli discovers she too has inherited the shape-shifting ability. and even without her teacher, learns to fly and to talk to animals.

Then the witch asks Suli to make a terrible choice: Suli must live with the witch as her apprentice, or she'll never see Tala again.

But if she agrees, she'll be called a witch for the rest of her life.

"The two things I dreamed of doing as a child were to fly and to talk to animals. This marvelous children's book brought this reader back to that happiest of times when everything was possible and wishes could come true."

Ginny Rorby, winner of the American Library Association's Schneider Family Book Award for her YA novel, Hurt Go Happy, a novel about a chimpanzee who uses sign-language.

The Third Kind of Magic is a delightful 236 page middle-grade novel for fans of the Land of Stories, Akata Witch, or Harry Potter.