Polly and the One and Only World

Run away.  That was all she could do.  If Security grabbed her now, they’d ship her off to a ReBirthing facility in the desert.  Or burn her alive.  They burned witches in the Dominions.  Great Mother, anything but that.   

But for 15-year-old Polly Lightfoot, much more than her life is at stake.  In a crumbling America governed by hateful zealots and crippled by environmental catastrophe, her people and their ancient craft face obliteration.  Unless, with her courage and magick, and with the help of Leon, her valiant teenage companion, and the guidance of her shrewd raven familiar, Balthazar, fearless Polly can forestall the coming doom.

Don Bredes of Wheelock, VT

Don Bredes lives in the hills of northern Vermont. He earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of California at Irvine and an AB in English Composition from Syracuse University. He has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University, and he has been awarded fellowships. His popular and controversial first novel, HARD FEELINGS (Atheneum, 1977), was an American Library Association Best Book in 1977 and a 20th Century-Fox film release in 1982.