The Scapegracers
core novel 2020 The Scapegracers
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (3,539 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781645660002 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Sideways Pike is an outsider witch at her high school who performs small magic tricks under the bleachers rather than practicing openly. When the three most popular girls at school, Jing, Yates, and Daisy, pay her forty dollars to work a spell at their Halloween party, the casting goes further than expected and binds the four of them together as a coven. Sideways, who has been raised alone by her mother after the earlier loss of her found-family mentor, discovers that her power multiplies when channeled through genuine friendship rather than solitary practice. As the newly formed coven begins experimenting with curses and shared magic, they draw the attention of witchfinders, a hostile fundamentalist group intent on hunting down and stripping witches of their power, forcing the four girls to rely on one another to survive.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Scapegracers
- Series: The Scapegracers core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: H. A. Clarke
Notes
- From the series record (The Scapegracers): Complete queer-teen-witch trilogy.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Scapegracers: position 1 of 3: next The Scratch Daughters (2021)
Sources
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