Book Description
After her mother’s death, a message scribbled in black calligraphy on a mysterious papyrus invites Marigold—Mary, for short—a ten–year–old witch apprentice from Salem, Massachusetts, to a fantastic country—Rondelia.
Mary’s adventures take her to Bookrest’s Theater of Vaudeville, to the underground city of vampire kids, and to Dracula’s mysterious Castle Bran in Transylvania. She travels to the gypsy spell–casters’ Enchanted Forest, back in time to the City of Whispers to find the secret of the Golem, and to the Sapphire Sea and the island of pirates.
But a big surprise awaits Mary at the end of her fantastic adventures, when she finds out that she is more than a Salem witch. She is none other than the long-sought great-granddaughter of Dracula—Maria Dracula.
Publisher comments
Nancy Ferrell
(1992 judge for the Golden Kite Award, reviewing more than 700 juvenile books; 1984 reviewer of children's books for the School Library Journal; reviewer for the Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators)
