Who's Who
Cook and midwife who always seems to be in a bad mood.
Who is Hagar?
"Being a mother doesn't make you good. Sometimes it makes you dangerous."
Who is Rose?
This is the year in which the book is set.
What is 1970?
This clandestine figure provides Fern with the titular guide to rising power.
Who is the librarian, Miss Parcae?
This substance is placed directly by the entrance to a door to prevent Miss Parcae from entering.
What is salt?
Name one of Fern's friends at the home - either the hippie determined to keep her baby or the musical soul planning to marry the father.
Who is Rose or Zinnia.
"A witch doesn't wait for someone else to save her. She learns the rules, then breaks them."
Who is Miss Parcae (the librarian)?
Fern is sent to this chilling Florida location - a home that houses unwed pregnant girls.
What is Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida?
The gift of witchcraft becomes for the girls an act of resistance against what?
What is society's control and oppression?
Name of the spell used on Dr. Vincent.
What is the turn around?
The youngest girl among them, barely fourteen and mute, who has a hidden, tragic story.
Who is Holly?
"They can take our names, but they can't take who we are."
Who is Fern?
At the home, this practice cuts the girls off from their identities and past families.
What is giving the girls new names?
They begin trying spells from How to be a Groovy Witch - but with power comes this heavy caveat.
What is a price that must be paid - often in blood?
The pouch given to the girls by Hagar grants them this power.
What is invisibility?