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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Konigsburg, E. L.
Other Authors:	Stewart, Carole Jordan
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House/Listening Library, [2007]
Edition:	Unabridged.
Subjects:	Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Witchcraft > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Children's audiobooks.
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Summary:	Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
Item Description:	Compact discs. Unabridged.
Physical Description:	2 sound discs (2 hr., 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:	Ages 8 and up.
Production Credits:	Directed by Tom Ditlow.
ISBN:	9780739350164 : 0739350161 :
Author Notes:	Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her best-known titles included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973. She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)