Elphie [large print] : a wicked childhood / Gregory Maguire.
"Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be--until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood--most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063410558
- ISBN: 0063410559
- ISBN: 9798888803110
- Physical Description: 387 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First William Morrow Large Print edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| General Note: | A prequel to The Wicked Years. Prequel to Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. Encounter day -- Part two. The hex -- Part three. The vegetable pearl -- Part four. The fledgling. |
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| Genre: | Large print books. Witch fiction. Fantasy fiction. Novels. |
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Available copies
- 3 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 9 total copies.
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| Marion Library | LP MAG (Text) | 37810435610786 | Adult Large Print New Fiction | Available | - |
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