I feel so much for Addie, the 12-year-old autistic main character: How she puts herself in the historical stories of witches, and how the injustice of their history upsets her, while others seem detached. Reading A Kind of Spark, I felt a part of myself represented and explained on the page that I’d never seen anywhere else before. Just like there is more to mine.” –Addie, in A Kind of Spark But if I keep trying, maybe someone will. Not everyone in our small town understands. I think about the witches, with no one to speak for them. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I can’t stop thinking about them.
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