This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1977 by Ruth Chew

Cover art copyright © 2015 by David Hohn

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in the United States by Scholastic, Inc., New York, in 1977.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chew, Ruth, author, illustrator.

Witch’s broom / by Ruth Chew ; with illustrations by the author. — First Random House edition.

p. cm

“A Stepping Stone Book.”

Originally published: New York : Scholastic, Inc., 1977.

Summary: A new broom and an unusual blue jay involve Amy and her friend in magical adventures.

ISBN 978-0-449-81578-6 (trade pbk.) — ISBN 978-0-449-81577-9 (ebook)

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Brooms and brushes—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Blue jay—Fiction. 5. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 6. Witches—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.C429Whs 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014032384

eBook ISBN 9780449815779

This book has been officially leveled by using the F&P Text Level Gradient™ Leveling System.

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