
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
1967
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
117
Number of Pages
A lonely girl discovers a magical world and a new friend when she meets a young witch on Halloween.
Avg Rating
3.78
Number of Ratings
4,652
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

E.L. Konigsburg
Author · 23 books
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She was the only author to win the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year (1968), with her second and first books respectively: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. Kongisburg won a second Newbery Medal in 1997 for The View from Saturday, 29 years later, the longest span between any two Newberys awarded to one author.