MARIGOLD STAR

From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Elise Primavera comes MARIGOLD STAR, a highly illustrated young middle-grade novel about a girl who thinks she'll never live up to her family's magic - until she discovers that her secret power is being an imaginary friend.

Even though she's the daughter of a Weather Wizard and a Fairy God-doctor, Marigold Star has always assumed she doesn't have a power of her own. After all, her magic wand doesn't work. She can't perform the simplest flying spell like everyone else in the world of Bramblycrumbly, and she can't get her parents to pay more attention to her than to her baby sister. She can't even stop the star above her head from blinking.

Then, Marigold and her best friend, a dragon named Lightning, attempt a new spell - one that will make her invisible. Surprisingly, it works! But it has an unintended side effect: Marigold has ended up in the human world. Faced with three lonely human children who are bad at making friends for different reasons, Marigold makes it her mission to help each of them and get back home - before the magic of Bramblycrumbly seeps out into the human world for good! Along the way, Marigold discovers that she has one of the rarest powers of all - she's an imaginary friend!


Elise Primavera has been writing and illustrating children's books for more than twenty-five years. She has received numerous awards for her work. Her bestselling book Auntie Claus has sold over half a million copies. Elise wrote her first novel the popular Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls in 2006.