Authors: Sage Blackwood
Jinx's Fire (28 page)
AcknowledgmentsI
would like to thank the people without whose patience, wisdom, and kindness Jinx and the Urwald would not have seen the light of day.
For reading various drafts and stray bits and making suggestions, my eternal thanks to Deborah Schwabach, Aaron Schwabach, Jon Schwabach, Caitlin Blasdell, Joel Naftali, Lee Nichols, Nancy Horgan, and my late sister, Jennifer Schwabach.
I am grateful to everyone at HarperCollins and Katherine Tegen Books for brilliant editing, and for being so understanding and patient. Many thanks to Anne Hoppe (who helped me understand the monsters and, even more
importantly, the paths), Sarah Shumway, Katherine Tegen, Laurel Symonds, Katie Bignell, and everyone else there.
Many thanks to those whose help gave me time to finish the middle book,
Jinx's Magic
. . . James and Cynthia Vail, Gabrielle Vail, Lindsay Vail, Ty Giltinan, Qienyuan Zhou, Martha Scott, and Yingfei Zhou.
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JINX
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Best Book of the Year
School Library Journal
Best Book
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ALA
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Top Ten First Novels for Youth
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“
Jinx
is filled with real magic, not just the magic young Jinx learns, but the magic of a great book.”
âJOHN STEPHENS,
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Emerald Atlas
“Complex characters, compelling fun, a marvelously dastardly villain, all steeped in a tasty stew of mystery and magic. What more could a reader ask for?”
âBRUCE COVILLE
“A truly wonderful book.”
âSARAH PRINEAS, author of
The Magic Thief
“Blackwood fills her tale with drama and delightfully funny dialogue.”
â
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
“Blackwood puts her central three characters through a string of suspenseful, scary situations before delivering a properly balanced closing set of resolutions, revelations and road signs to future episodes.”
â
Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
Jinx
Jinx's Magic
Jinx's Fire
Cover art © 2015 by Iacopo Bruno
Cover design by Amy Ryan
JINX'S FIRE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blackwood, Sage.
Jinx's fire / Sage Blackwood. âFirst Edition.
pages          cm
Sequel to: Jinx's magic.
Summary: “Jinx travels throughout the Urwald to unite its people and creatures against encroaching threats”â Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-212996-3 (hardback)
EPub Edition © February 2015 ISBN 9780062129987
[1. MagicâFiction. 2. WizardsâFiction. 3. OrphansâFiction. 4. Forests and forestryâFiction. 5. Fantasy.] I. Title.
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