The Hotel Witch


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 COVER PAGE
 TEXT LOGO PAGE
 ABOUT THE BOOK
 TITLE PAGE
 CONTENTS
 DEDICATION
 1 EARLY MORNING AT THE GRAND MIRROR HOTEL
 2 A MOST UNUSUAL LETTER
 3 THE BRANDAVIAN QUEEN-IN-EXILE
 4 AN AFTER NOON TEA EMERGENCY
 5 LIGHT-AS-AIR ECLAIRS
 6 AN EVENTFUL ARRIVAL
 7 THE BOOK OF ADVANCED AND DANGEROUS MAGIC
 8 A SPELL FOR FRÄULEIN SCHOENBLUM
 9 MIDNIGHT AT THE GRAND MIRROR HOTEL
 10 A SURPRISE OF SORTS
 11 A CURSE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
 12 THE STAR-SHAPED MEDALLION
 13 THE SNOW-SPIDER
 14 SOMETHING MISSING
 15 A STAFF MEETING
 16 A STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH ALFONSO
 17 FRAU BADENZWINGER’S BESTIARY
 18 THE QUEEN-IN-EXILE’S SUITCASE
 19 DORA TAKES CHARGE
 20 A CONCERT IN THE CONSERVATORY
 21 A GRAND ENTRANCE
 22 FRÄULEIN SCHOENBLUM’S SHADOW
 23 SILVER BUTTONS SPARKING AND CRACKLING
 24 GRANDMA
 25 POSSIBILITIES
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 ALSO BY JESSICA MILLER
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 COPYRIGHT PAGE
 CHILDREN’S MARKETING PAGE
 
 
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 ABOUT THE BOOK
 Sometimes the simplest spells are the most powerful.
 Sibyl is the apprentice hotel witch at the splendid Grand Mirror Hotel.
 She is busy each day drawing useful spell patterns to keep the hotel guests happy: spells to shine shoes, spells to remove dust and spells to return lost belongings like hats and gloves to their owners.
 But Sibyl dreams of other possibilities – wonderful possibilities like her mother returning from the Black Mountains, and like Grandma letting her draw spell patterns from the Book of Advanced and Dangerous Magic.
 When Grandma gets stuck in last Tuesday, somewhere on the hotel’s thirteenth floor, Sibyl is left to take charge of all the hotel magic – and to solve a mysterious and perplexing problem.
 Can she find a way to open the Book of Advanced and Dangerous Magic?
 And will it contain the spell she needs?
 The Hotel Witch is a magical tale of courage, love and the power of imagining possibilities.
 
 
 
 CONTENTS
 COVER PAGE
 ABOUT THE BOOK
 TITLE PAGE
 DEDICATION
 1 EARLY MORNING AT THE GRAND MIRROR HOTEL
 2 A MOST UNUSUAL LETTER
 3 THE BRANDAVIAN QUEEN-IN-EXILE
 4 AN AFTER NOON TEA EMERGENCY
 5 LIGHT-AS-AIR ECLAIRS
 6 AN EVENTFUL ARRIVAL
 7 THE BOOK OF ADVANCED AND DANGEROUS MAGIC
 8 A SPELL FOR FRÄULEIN SCHOENBLUM
 9 MIDNIGHT AT THE GRAND MIRROR HOTEL
 10 A SURPRISE OF SORTS
 11 A CURSE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
 12 THE STAR-SHAPED MEDALLION
 13 THE SNOW-SPIDER
 14 SOMETHING MISSING
 15 A STAFF MEETING
 16 A STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH ALFONSO
 17 FRAU BADENZWINGER’S BESTIARY
 18 THE QUEEN-IN-EXILE’S SUITCASE
 19 DORA TAKES CHARGE
 20 A CONCERT IN THE CONSERVATORY
 21 A GRAND ENTRANCE
 22 FRÄULEIN SCHOENBLUM’S SHADOW
 23 SILVER BUTTONS SPARKING AND CRACKLING
 24 GRANDMA
 25 POSSIBILITIES
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 COPYRIGHT PAGE
 
 
 For Hannah and Clara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sibyl loved early mornings at the Grand Mirror Hotel. When all the guests were asleep. When sunlight streamed into the lobby, and cast crisp long shadows on the parquet floor. When the hotel corridors were so still and so quiet that, even from the topmost twenty-seventh floor, Sibyl could almost hear curls of steam rising from the coffeepots in the first-floor dining room.
 Sibyl loved early mornings, because early mornings were the time of day when anything—everything—felt possible. Today, for example, felt particularly filled with possibilities. Today, the hundred-year-orchid in the conservatory could possibly burst into bloom. Today, the Grand-Empress of Merovingia could possibly draw up in her carriage and inquire about a room at reception. Today, Sibyl’s mother could send one of her thrilling letters from the Black Mountains, announcing she was planning to visit Sibyl and Grandma very soon at the Grand Mirror Hotel.
 Today—and now the possibilities were growing wilder and wilder—today Grandma could just-perhaps-maybe-possibly let Sibyl draw a real spell-pattern, one from The Book of Advanced and Dangerous Magic.
 Usually, Grandma only let Sibyl work spells from The Book of Domestic Magic, which was filled with spells for un-cobwebbing corners and shining silver and finding things like lost hats and gloves. Boring spells, if you asked Sibyl. Grandma liked to say, ‘Just because a spell is simple, Sibyl, doesn’t make it boring. Sometimes the simplest spells are