Would you freak out if you got weird eyes that grew on your knuckles? How about if you said everything people were thinking? Or maybe if you had electrical powers? That's what the three kids in Well-Witched by Frances Hardinge went through. This is another slightly spooky tale. But no ghosts this time. Just remember everyone, don't take coins from the well witch. Here's the back:"Ryan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins?
The well witch does.
And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of her well. Each takes on powers they didn't ask for and don't want. Ryan grows strange bumps--are they "eyes"?--between his knuckles; Chelle starts speaking the secrets of strangers, no matter how awful and bloody; and Josh can suddenly--inexplicably--grant even the darkest of wishes, the kind of wishes that should 'never' come true."
-bookworm
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