# Witchlings

**Author:** Claribel A. Ortega
**Grade range:** Grades 2–5
**Age range:** 7–11
**First published:** 2022
**Page count:** 352
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781338745528`
**ISBN-10:** `1338745522`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/witchlings
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

On the night of the Black Moon Ceremony, Seven Salazar is sorted into the dreaded "Spares" instead of a coven. To avoid being turned into a toad, she and two fellow Spares must complete an impossible task. Claribel A. Ortega's fantasy is about friendship and finding your own power. A recent winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (grades 2-5), the New Jersey Library Association's statewide children's-choice award — children across NJ read the nominees and vote for their favorites.

## Themes

- magic
- friendship
- belonging
- courage

## Where this book is assigned

### Garden State Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 2nd grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)

---

_Generated from primary-source citations indexed on ReadingList.school. For the full HTML view with reading-list cross-references, see https://readinglist.school/book/witchlings._