People fill their homes with their most prized possessions,
but since Felicity Pickle has never stayed in one place long enough to call it
home, she collects words; words that dance, laugh, and glow right before her eyes
and are arranged in poems, on her shoes, and in the stories she tells her
little sister, Frannie Jo. So, when Mama packs up to hit the road to a new
town, school, and house, Felicity is ready for a place full of people she’ll
never have a chance to really know; instead, they stop at Midnight Gulch,
Mama’s hometown where everyone has a snicker of magic...or did at one time. Aunt
Cleo wraps them in arms as warm as the quilts she makes.
Felicity’s problem with voicing the words she collects
usually keeps her on the outside, but the magical people of Midnight Gulch,
like her teacher, Miss Divinity Lawson, her friend, Jonah, and her Uncle,
Boone, allow her to find her voice as she helps them to uncover the curse that
has fallen on this magical town.
A Snicker of Magic is simply delicious. The characters are
heartwarming and the plot is full of wonder. Lloyd plays on the heartstrings in
all of us that search to find a place, person, or feeling like home, noting, “Home
isn’t just a house or a city or a place; home is what happens when you’re brave
enough to love people” (302).
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