Emma C.: If I were in the book The Girl Who Drank The Moon (by Kelly Barnhill), I would want to be the youngest child born that year. Why? The setting of this book is a town which is controlled by a group of elders called the Protectorate. They kept control of the people in the town by taking away the youngest born baby each year and placing it in the same spot in the woods so that it would be eaten by wild animals or would die from the elements. Each year when they came back, the baby was gone. What they didn't know was that a good witch named Xan was rescuing the babies, raising them as her own (if she liked them) or transforming them into something different if she didn't like the way they acted. Xan became more powerful by eating moonbeams. If Xan accidentally gave me moonbeams like she did Luna (one of the main characters in the book) then I'd be "magic-fied". With that power, I would want to find my real mother and would want to protect another character in the book, the Sorrow Eater, from herself and everyone else. The Sorrow Eater is a woman who feeds on other people's sorrow to forget her own. I would also expose the Protectorate by telling everyone in the town that they were telling lies and needed to be arrested. That would bring freedom to everyone in the town. Then I would try to live a normal life and only use magic when I absolutely needed to. |