From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother shes never metonly to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic.  If you ask Delphinia Baker, shed tell you she has all the family she needs. Sure, her mom passed away when she was young, her dad is often away on deployment, but even though Del has never had anyone she can call her people, she has always had her grandmotherand thats enough. Besides, having no roots just makes it that much easier when you have to move again.All of that changes, though, when Gramma falls ill and Del is sent to stay with her great-grandmother. Del has never even heard of Nana Rose, and she has no interest in spending the summer on an unbearably hot island off the South Carolina coast. And when Nana Rose starts talking about the school she runs dedicated to their familys traditionssomething called conjure magicDel knows shes in for a weird, awkward summer.That is, until the magic turns out to be real.Soon, Del is surrounded by teachers who call themselves witches, kids with strange abilities, creatures and ghosts who can speak to her. She has a hundred questions, but one more than any other: Why didnt Gramma ever tell her about her family, the island, this magic? As Del sets out to find her place in a world she never knew existed, she also discovers a shadowy presence on the islandand comes to believe that it all might be connected.