The Bottle Witch of Brimley

Twelve-year-old Dory thought that detention with her frenemy, Mayling, and the school pest, Norman, was the worst thing that could happen to her...but she couldn't be more wrong.

While the detention trio cleans the science storage room, Dory accidentally drops an old glass jug that shatters and a foul-smelling, snake-like shadow escapes. Dory tries to convince herself that it was some kind of strange gas and that what she saw was just a hallucination. But then she catches a glimpse of the eerie shadow in a neighbor's garden, and soon garden vegetables, cats and even kids begin disappearing in her town. Only when she translates the broken bottle's label does she understand what she has done: By dropping the old glass jug, she has released the most malevolent of evil witches. Putting the witch back into a bottle is the only solution--but what if there's more than one witch loose in Brimley?

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Linda DeMeulemeester is the author of the critically acclaimed Grim Hill series. The Secret of Grim Hill won the Silver Birch award in 2008 and was optioned for television. Her other books have been nominated or shortlisted for several awards, including the British Columbia Young Readers' Choice Red Cedar Award, the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Diamond Willow Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award. Linda has worked in literacy and adult education. Many dedicated teachers and principals and librarians have invited her into their schools, classrooms and libraries. She considers middle-grade audiences the best audiences in the world.

Meaghan Carter is a Toronto-based comic artist and colorist. She has worked with Oni Press, IDW, Penguin Random House and Harper Alley. She loves middle-grade and YA fantasy, ghost stories and animal characters. She is the comic artist for Girl Haven, the Iron Barge comic series, and is the author of Godslave and To Know a Witch.