{"id":654,"date":"2014-11-24T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/?p=654"},"modified":"2014-11-24T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:38:07","slug":"dark-spell-by-gill-arbuthnott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2014\/11\/24\/dark-spell-by-gill-arbuthnott\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Spell by Gill Arbuthnott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2014\/11\/Dark-spell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"Dark spell\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2014\/11\/Dark-spell-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>15-year-old Callie Hall has just found out she&#8217;s a witch, and things keep going wrong. Sometimes her mind seems to make things happen, things she can&#8217;t control. She can set fire to things without a match, and when she&#8217;s angry people can get hurt.<br \/>\nHer friend Josh understands she&#8217;s a bit weird, but it&#8217;s only on a dark and dangerous visit to the tunnels under the ruins of St Andrews&#8217; Castle that he realises just how strange she really is. Something comes back with Callie &#8212; in Callie &#8212; something she can&#8217;t escape. Can Callie control her power long enough to send back the darkness, before it takes over her life? And will Josh ever understand her secret? A brilliant, engrossing teen fantasy from the author of Winterbringers and The Keeper&#8217;s Daughter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><em>It is a really gripping book and I would recommend it. (S1) *****<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><em>Intriguing, mysterious &amp; good. (S1) ****1\/2<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old Callie Hall has just found out she&#8217;s a witch, and things keep going wrong. Sometimes her mind seems to make things happen, things she can&#8217;t control. She can set fire to things without a match, and when she&#8217;s angry people can get hurt. Her friend Josh understands she&#8217;s a bit weird, but it&#8217;s only &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,3,4,5,36,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbuthnott","category-books-for-boys","category-books-for-girls","category-fantasy","category-magic-and-supernatural","category-scottish-fiction","category-teenage-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}