A Hat Full of Sky

by Terry Pratchett

A review by Sara Froehlich

We once again join Tiffany Aching for an adventure with the Nac Mac Feegle! The Nac Mac Feegle have a new Kelda, Rob Anybody's wife Jeannie. She is going to teach the Feegle to read and write if it kills them.

Tiffany is going to learn to use the witchly powers she discovered she has inherited from her Grandmother by becoming an apprentice to Miss Level. Miss Level is no ordinary witch herself: she is one person in two bodies. Tiffany faces greater danger in this book than she did in the first adventure, Wee Free Men. This time she faces a Hiver, an invisible entity that will try to take over her body and her growing powers.

The Nac Mac Feegle try to protect her but run into problems of their own! Even Miss Level is no match for the Hiver. If she can't stop it, how can Tiffany stop it? Even Granny Weatherwax doesn't hang around when the Hiver is loose.

Tiffany proves she is more than just a want-to-be witch from the Chalk who happens to make a pretty good cheese.

I loved this book! It's full of the typical Pratchett satire and wit we have come to expect, and to skip it because it is for a junior audience would be causing you to miss some of his best lines. Even though it's really geared at youth readers, if you like Pratchett, this is not to be missed!