A Hat Full of Sky

Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegle are back in the second book after The Wee Free Men. Tiffany is now 11 years old and leaves home for the first time to become an apprentice witch with Miss Level, who has two bodies. Tiffany is embarrassed in front of a group of apprentice witches. But luckily Tiffany becomes the target of a supernatural creature called a hiver. The hiver takes over Tiffany's mind which allows her to do mean things to the other apprentice witches. But after she battles the hiver, Tiffany is forgiven.

How I wish that a hiver took over my mind when I was in school! Johnny Burgess would pay for bloodying my brand new Air Jordan t-shirt with my own chin wound. Those older kids who laughed at me for saying, in my choked-up breath, as they made fun of me on the trampoline, "Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me" would pay, perhaps with magical stones that would stone them as they rode their bikes to school, perhaps throwing them into the middle of the road and a cane truck might run over them and I would appear and beat them with a stick after it happened.

Not that I took any pleasure in Tiffany giving some come-uppance to those who deserved it. Well, okay, maybe I did.