Aunt Maria (+ 5 points)

 Aunt Maria was a very interesting and entertaining novel. I really enjoyed the story all the way through. It started off very normal and I found myself wondering how this story was going to relate to witches at the beginning. I could tell that there was a bit of mystery with the way that the kids' father died and how their Aunt was acting, but it did not start to get strange until the ghost became involved. That really began to peak my interest and I wondered why it was interested in Chris.

As the story went on and there was talk of the clone children and the strange people in town...that's also when I started to try to piece some things together. Clearly there was something wrong and maybe their father's death was not how they thought it was. The two kids were trying to work together to figure out what was going on.

I noticed a lot of situations that were about gender in this novel. The women in town all got together for tea and food, and they had many expectations of how Mig should act as a lady. Not only that, but it seemed that Mig was favored by everyone over Chris. Chris was the odd one out. At certain points, it's pointed out that Mig is not allowed to know some information because she is a girl and that some of the men in town do not like her or do not want to be around her because of that as well. I could only help but think that maybe they are afraid of her and worried that she could be a witch as well. She even has to reassure the ghost that she is not a threat after her Aunt turns Chris into a wolf.

It is clear later that Aunt Maria is not the poor old woman who cannot do things for herself at all. She continues to put spells on people (including Mig's mother) and turning people into animals. She is the evil one of the town that controls everything and everyone. There is so much to unravel in this story and it was overall a very enjoyable witch story.

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