Jinx

by Sage Blackwood

  Jinx could see where this was going. “I guess it was that kind, yeah.”

  “Doesn’t count,” said Simon.

  Jinx felt his mood lighten. He wasn’t sure Simon was right. In fact, quite likely Simon was wrong. But he would work it all out with Sophie when he got to Samara.

  Jinx was ready to see the world.

  About the Author

  Sage Blackwood lives at the edge of a large forest, with thousands of books and a very old dog, and enjoys carpentry, cooking, and walking in the woods of New York State.

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  Cover art © 2013 by Iacopo Bruno

  Copyright

  Jinx

  Copyright © 2013 by Karen Schwabach

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Blackwood, Sage.

  Jinx / Sage Blackwood.—1st ed.

  p.cm.

  Summary: A young boy named Jinx encounters magic and danger as he grows up in the deep, dark forest known as the Urwald and discovers that the world beyond—and within—the Urwald is more complex than he could imagine.

  ISBN 978-0-06-212990-1 (trade bdg.)

  EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062129925

  [1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Title.

  PZ7.B5345Ji 2013

  2012005249

  [Fic]—dc23

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