About This Book
Reach for this book when your child is adjusting to life in a blended family or struggling with the boundary between imagination and reality. This story follows seven-year-old Karen Brewer as she navigates her two different homes, 'big house' and 'little house,' while becoming convinced her neighbor is a witch. It is a gentle, relatable entry point for children processing the logistics of divorce and remarriage without the tone becoming heavy or clinical. While the primary plot focuses on Karen's humorous and slightly spooky neighborhood investigations, the underlying strength of the book is its normalization of complex family structures. It speaks to the creative child who sees magic in the mundane and needs to see a peer learning from impulsive mistakes. It is perfectly aged for second through fourth graders who are developing independence but still rely heavily on the security of their family units.
