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Original Title:	Incantation
ISBN:	0316010197 (ISBN13: 9780316010191)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Estrella deMadrigal
Literary Awards:	Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature (2007), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2008)

Incantation

Alice Hoffman

Hardcover | Pages: 166 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 7155 Users | 1060 Reviews

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Title	:	Incantation
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 166 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2006 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. Spain. Religion. Literature. Jewish

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From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey of loss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact. Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives when those who refused conversion risked everything. Estrella's discovery that her family secretly practices the ancient way of wisdom known as kabbalah leads her to her true self and true love-but also to a devastating confrontation with unimaginable evil, unleashed by the betrayal of a friend. With themes of faith, friendship, and persecution, Alice Hoffman's tragic and beautiful novel resonates profoundly in our times.

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Ratings: 3.88 From 7155 Users | 1060 Reviews

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I love the rich true voice of Alice Hoffman -- it seems as if each of her books takes me to a private moment in a corner of a well-developed moment of time. I've no doubt as I read that these people have lived long and well before we entered their lives at the beginning of the story, and that at least some of them will continue on long after we close the back cover (or turn off the Kindle). In this short visit to Jews trying to survive as pseudo Catholics in a dangerous time in Spain. As the

"Some people say, Save yourself and you save your life. I say Be yourself and you save your soul"....Incantation is the first young adult book I've read by the wonderful Alice Hoffman and the first book I've read about the persecution of Jewish people during the Spanish Inquisition. During that time, instead of constantly running, many Jewish people pretended to be Christian in order to set down roots and start a family, while keeping their Jewish faith and customs alive in secret. The

Every time I sit down and read a book about the Spanish Inquisition, I'm shocked all over again. What pointless and horrid brutality. And though I've read a story with this theme and plot before, it still impacted me.Terrific writing style and prose, though I have to say the dialogue being all italics instead of in "s is disconcerting.You have a girl in Spain during these troubled times...she notices little things. Her family crosses themselves differently, doesn't eat pork, has mysterious

As others have said, this is a well written book about a little-known period in time. The Jews in Spain in the 1500's were forced to become Christian. Some chose to hide their true religion and lived a double life. It's sweet, and bitter. You know something terrible will happen, but you hold out hope until the very end...I loved the main character. Alice Hoffman did an excellent job of letting us witness the evil of the world through innocent eyes. Beautiful, terrifying, hopeful, tender, harsh,

Now, don't get me wrong, I love Alice Hoffman; she's one of my favorite writers! But if I'd been introduced to her writing through this YA novel, I don't believe I'd have continued reading her work. Incantation is set during The Spanish Inquisition, and 15-year-old Estrella is discovering things about herself and her family that turn her world upside down. The novel tries to be magical, yet never quite reaches that point. Hoffman's usual poetic style seems stilted in this work, and while the

Alice Hoffman is an amazing author. She has the ability to write each novel like a poem. It feels like poetry, but with an incredible story to go along with it. But each book is so extremely sad, which is a hard emotion to write. Alice Hoffman's books are super great, and the emotions they can control is extraordinary. Incantation, my second Hoffman book, is about a girl, Estrella, who is living in Spain in the 1500's. All her life, she has thought she was a Christian and thought she knew who

A yeoman effort, telling the story of a young girl living in Spain during the time of Ferdinand & Isabella (i.e. the Inquisition). The fact that she is Jewish is kept from her until events prevent it from remaining a secret any longer. This historical fiction is a one-day read, quick and easy. It's a bit of a paint-by-numbers plot replete with predictable Christian villains and Jewish and Muslim victims. In short, almost didactic in its approach, which takes something away but doesn't change