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Violence
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Some fantasy peril; a fire demon; no significant violence
Language
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Entirely clean and witty
Sexual Content
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A love story; entirely chaste
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
None
Entirely delightful; one of the warmest fantasies ever written
What this book is about
Sophie Hatter, the eldest of three sisters, is cursed by the Witch of the Waste to be an old woman. She heads for the Waste and bluffs her way into employment at the moving castle of the flamboyant, vain Wizard Howl. Diana Wynne Jones's beloved fantasy is funny, inventive, romantic, and built on one of fiction's most satisfying inverted love stories — a heroine who becomes more herself the older she appears.
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