The Witch Haven

Sasha Peyton Smith

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Chapter One: New York, September 1911

If he saw me as a person, he wouldn’t be doing this. 14

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Chapter Two

I will support whatever you say,” 22

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Chapter Four
 They’re everywhere,” Maxine says in response to my startle. 41
“Cats?” “Yes, the cats.” “Intentionally?” “Not particularly

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No one will miss me.” “That’s no matter. We’re your family 54

now.”

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Chapter Six

makes me feel like a very important, glamorous lady—or 59

maybe a small bat; I can’t decide.

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One, at Haxahaven the walls have ears. There are no secrets 63

here. Two, not everyone here is your friend

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How foolish I was for thinking I was the recipient of 77

something good. Or how selfish and ungrateful I am for
being bored with magic in less than a month

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Chapter Eight
 Do not trust the sisterhood. 81

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What constitutes soon in magic spells? How long until soon 93

becomes not soon enough?

we don’t need to get into all the poor witches who died; the 97
lucky ones just lose their minds a bit.

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Chapter Ten

I won’t make the same mistakes as my mother. I refuse to 101

live her life

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I don’t want to be good. I want to create something, be 111

something.

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 the terrible misfortune that befell us when we had the bad 114
sense to be born female.

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we have been taught all our lives to remain small, 115

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You deserve a better world than this one 165

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Chapter Seventeen

It’s alarming how similar fear and desire feel when it all 180
comes down to it.

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I will be brave for my classmates who were so brave for me. 332

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