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Wanda Seasongood and the Almost Perfect Lie

Susan Lurie

Soon after returning from her first adventure in the Scary Wood and breaking a witch's curse on her family Wanda learns that she has an older sister Wren who is being held captive by the very same witch.

Wanda and her trusty bluebird companion Voltaire return to the forest to find and rescue her long-lost sibling. Along the way they face tricky trolls a gruesome giant a batty banshee and other friends and foes before they take on the biggest challenge of all: Raymunda leader of the witches.

In order to defeat Raymunda Wanda will have to rely on Voltaire's unreliable memory and the witch's son William who seems incapable of telling the truth. Is Wren who they say she is? If so why doesn't she want to come home with Wanda?

This original fairy tale will have readers eagerly flipping pages to learn the truth.

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  • Classification : Older Readers (8-12)
  • Pub Date : AUG 4, 2020
  • Imprint : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781368043229
  • Price : INR 1,199
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Susan Lurie

Susan Lurie is a children's book author and editor. Her most recent picture books include Swim Duck Swim! which received a starred Kirkus review and appeared on Bank Street's 2015 Best Books of the Year list; Will You Be My Friend?; and Frisky Brisky Hippity Hop. Before she became an independent author/editor she was publisher of Parachute Press the creator of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series. She has worked with R.L. Stine on over 140 Goosebumps books and still counting. She lives in Forest Hills New York with her husband and their pet fish Pickle.

For more information go to www.susanlurie.com or follow her on Twitter @SusanLurie2.

Jenn Harney is the author-illustrator of Underwear! and Swim Swim Sink. She has also illustrated Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Secret as well as the Hazy Bloom chapter book series by Jennifer Hamburg and the picture books How to Become a Knight (in Ten Easy Lessons) by Todd Tarpley and Never Trumpet with a Crumpet by Amy Gibson. Jenn lives in Cleveland Ohio with her husband her daughter a corgi named Steve and the ghost of the oldest living goldfish in North America. Follow her on Twitter @jennharknee.

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