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Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan 270 pages. Candlewick Press, 2018 $15.99. Language: PG (6 swears 0 'f'); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.  BUYING ADVISORY: EL , MS - ADVISABLE  AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE   On the night Mup's aunty dies, everything changes. A bunch of Raggedy Witches follow her and her mother home from the hospital. With no Aunty to protect them - even though she's hanging around as a ghost, strange things happen, like Mup's father disappears on his way home from work. The witches are certainly involved because Mup's mother is heir to the witch throne and they are trying to lure her back to that world. So, Mam bundles up Mup and Tipper (her baby brother) and they return to Witches Burrough to find dad and save the people from the tyrant queen (Mup's grandmother).  Keirnan has created a great world - people can change into animals, magic is a group effort and it's hard to know who are the good guys and who to beware of. The...

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha,   521 pages. Disney, 2018. $13. Content: Language: PG (46 swears 0 'f'); Mature: PG; Violence: PG;   BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL  AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE   Max and his sister Dani have recently moved to Salem from California. While trying to show off for Allison, Max lights the Black Flame Candle in the old Sanderson Sisters house bringing the evil trio back to life after being hanged over 300 years before. Now the 3 kids must undo the spell before the witches destroy all the children of the town. In The All-New Sequel, it's 25 years later, and Max and Allison's daughter Poppy has hated Halloween all her life, but this Halloween her parents have planned a special party for her and her friends - to keep them away from the dangers of 25 years ago - a blood moon on Halloween. But when Poppy, Travis and Isabella use a Ouija board to cast a spell in the Sanderson Sisters house, Poppy's parents and aunt dis...