Life is lonely for 13-year-old Jane Riggs in the historical New England
village that is her new home — until she discovers a four-hundred-year-old
book of spells that really works. Guided by the ghost of the witch who wrote the
conjure book, Jane embarks on a terrifying but glorious quest for magical power.
Her ambition is to contact her mother, dead these ten years and remembered only
in photographs. For such a great prize, Jane is willing to risk much among the
weird creatures she conjures out of the spirit world. But she will need more
than courage when her magic follows her to school. After an evil spirit fox
steals her classmate's soul, life suddenly gets very complicated. Coming of age
among dark, elemental powers while not missing a day of seventh grade is not
easy. And the answers Jane needs for growing up don't seem to be in the conjure
book.