Rhymes with Witches

The main character in this story is Jane, a high school girl who is not unpopular, but isn't really popular, either, and she wants to be.

The ticket to her popularity is in a group referred to as the Bitches, consisting of one girl from each grade level. Each year they chose a freshman to join their group, and they pick Jane to join them.

On the positive side, belonging to the Bitches will bring instant and unending popularity to Jane. Almost every person seems to fawn over the Bitches, and nothing they do seems to be wrong to anyone.

Yet, there's the old saying, “it's too good to be true,” and that holds true in this instance. Popularity has a price. At first, the price seems to be rather small, like stealing gum or lip balm from someone, but there's a reason for that, and the more Jane finds out, the more she becomes upset.

Yet, there's also another saying: “No good deed goes unpunished.” Jane does her good deed for another girl, only to have the girl turn against her.

What will happen to Jane in the end? Will she lose all her popularity, perhaps even become hated, or will she still have a friend or two that will stick by her?

It's an interesting book, but it's another book in the “witchcraft is of the devil” variety. What the girls and their leader are doing is dark magic; what real witches do is positive magic, and there's a tremendous difference between the two.


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