Most of Sabrina's adventures consist of Sabrina either trying to use her powers in secret to help others – witches generally are not allowed to tell mortals about their abilities or existence – or dealing with the day-to-day trials of being a teenager. Sabrina's primary romantic interest is her mortal boyfriend Harvey Kinkle who, like nearly all the other mortals in Sabrina's world, is unaware his girlfriend is a witch. Also living with the three women as the family pet is Salem Saberhagen, a witch who has been turned into a cat as punishment for world domination attempts. The series' premise is that Sabrina, a "half-witch" – her mother is an ordinary human, or "mortal" as witches refer to them, while her father is a warlock – lives with her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, both witches themselves, in the fictional town of Greendale, which is located somewhere near Riverdale, the home of Archie Andrews. Original title is stylized Sabrina: The Teen-Age Witch Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 (April 1971).
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(I can't remember any specifics because I have lent the book to a friend, but I remember this.) And Leo also says some transphobic things to David, which was odd, as he's trans too?Īlso, David uses he/him pronouns throughout the whole book which I guess goes with the whole 'wants to be a girl' thing. Understandably, David has some internalized transphobia and says some pretty transphobic things to Leo. And that 'wanting' to be a girl shtick continues through the whole story. We actually are that gender, but have been seen as our birth gender. In the blurb: "Two boys." and "David wants to be a girl."īeing trans isn't about wanting to be another gender. The book isn't written by a trans person, and that was my first clue. I know that trans people have different experiences and points of view on their gender, but so many things about this book seemed off to me. However, once I started reading I was honestly very disappointed. It had a cool cover and a premise I was personally interested in. I'm a trans person and when I saw this book I was super excited. Her knapsack with a little food and water helps, but not as much as the Walkman that allows her to listen to Sox games, a crucial link to the outside world. Trisha spends nine days (eight nights) in the forest, ravaged by wasps, thirst, hunger, illness, loneliness and terror. King has always excelled at writing about children, and Trisha McFarland, dressed in jeans and a Red Sox jersey and cap when she wanders off the forest path, away from her mother and brother and toward tremendous danger, is his strongest kid character yet, wholly believable and achingly empathetic in her vulnerability and resourcefulness. This stacked deck is flush with aces, however. Always one to go for the throat, King crafts a story that concerns not just anyone lost in the Maine-New Hampshire woods, but a plucky nine-year-old girl, and from a broken home, no less. 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