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LocationOakland
Call NoF MAG
TitleGalinda : a charmed childhood / Gregory Maguire.
AuthorMaguire, Gregory, author.
Barcode47660111122376
CollectionFiction
SummaryWho was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University? Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a "ga." The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions-but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family's business strategies. Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it. However, as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood. Galinda reveals the girl behind the bubbly, shallow cliché-offering fans of Wicked their first richer glimpse into the life of a beloved and iconic character"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063495272 hardcover
Personal Name Maguire, Gregory, author.
Title Statement Galinda : a charmed childhood / Gregory Maguire.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
Physical Description 272 p. Hardcover cm.
Series Statement The Wicked Years
Summary, Etc. Who was Glinda the Good Witch before she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda before she became Elphaba Thropp's magnetic and popular roommate at Shiz University? Well, before then, she was Galinda. With a "ga." The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions-but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family's business strategies. Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it. However, as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood. Galinda reveals the girl behind the bubbly, shallow cliché-offering fans of Wicked their first richer glimpse into the life of a beloved and iconic character"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Adaptations & pastiche Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coming of age Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Contemporary fantasy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fairy tales, folk tales, legends and mythology Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fantasy, epic Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Literary Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Friendship Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical fantasy Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family life, siblings Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Fantasy fiction lcgft
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