Poison Potion

Star Friends #6

by Linda Chapman

Do you believe in magic?
Maia and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure unfolds.

The Star Friends still don’t know who is using the woodland plants to create dark magic potions. Could it be the grumpy new school secretary? Meanwhile, Lottie’s friend Essie is being mean at school, and none of the adults want to go to work! The girls must combine their powers to unmask the potion-maker – and defeat them once and for all.

Genres: Fantasy, Childrens

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2019

About the author

Linda Chapman was born in Liverpool in 1969. She had many different jobs before becoming a full-time writer in 1999 including working as a theatre stage manager, a dog trainer, a bookseller, a nanny, a teacher and a research assistant. She has written over 300 books for children, some under her own name, others under different names and she often collaborates with other authors. She is currently writing books with Julie Sykes and they are co-authors on the NYT bestselling Unicorn Academy series as well as Mermaid Academy, Forever Homes and Pocket Unicorns. Linda lives in Leicestershire with her husband, three children, two horses and three dogs. She has written many different series including: My Secret Unicorn, Star Friends, Best Friends Bakery, Stardust, Skating School and, most recently, Magic Keepers and Moonlight Riders.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This magical series for young readers continues to grow on me as the characters are developed more fully. In this, the sixth title in the series, the four Star Friends--Mia, Lexi, Violet and Sita--continue to combat evil with help from their Star Animals. Readers will enjoy trying to figure out who is responsible for the Dark Magic that seems to be causing the youngsters' parents to behave in such odd ways. Although I suspected the evildoer from the start, her reasons for behaving as she does may surprise the book's readers. The illustrations for this book are just as charming as those in the previous books, and allow readers to imagine living in such a magical world with ease.

[Nina · Rating 1 out of 5]

So much ew.
10 year olds wearing make up and being mean girls.
My daughter's we not entertained my this and I really wanted to just throw it out. But it's a library book. So much better literature for young girls to be reading. Very disappointed.

[Ashlynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This continues to be a sweet series to read with my daughter.

[Erietta · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book
On all of the previous series' books I've put five stars
Here I put four and here's why
I loved the book as much as the others
Although here the stories and plots and everything started getting a bit too repetitive and each book started being more alike to the previous ones
I think the series should have ended with this book because no more plot and info about each thing needs to be analyzed over again and again so I believe the books from here to book 12 are only for marketing reasons and have no reason to exist
I would have put five if I had read a nice ending here as a kid!

[Mary Pimbblet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another brilliant little instalment in the Star Friends series. My seven year old daughter is loving reading these, and trying to work out who is doing the dark magic every time. This one had some lovely little unexpected surprises, even if the main plot was pretty obvious.
A great little series.

[Fantastiske Familie Bøger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Der er nogen som har lavet mørk magi, men hvem er det?

Pigerne udspionere hende som laver mørk magi, men de kan ikke se hendes ansigt. 

Pigerne bliver fanget og skal nu finde en måde at slippe fri på og bekæmpe den onde.

Bogen er lidt skræmmende, men den er stadig rigtig god. 

[Thalia S. A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like the rest of the Star Friends series, I loved this book!

[Ulvi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Story was very good in this one. And as always kids love the illustrations, I have to pause to let them study each picture.

[Yung Vicky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a fun book. Loved seeing how the girls figure out the mystery and deal with the villain. Didn't really see the backstory going the way it did. Was pleasantly surprised.

[Maecie Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

One million stars

[Nancy Janssen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vreemd dat de namen ineens veranderen.

[Caitlin Gilley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book to my 6 year old. Here is her review:
The ending surprised me, but I got it right for the most part. Reading this book made me happy.

[Efox · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids are obsessed with these books. Obsessed. After finishing Night Shade, we jumped straight into this one. This book picks up where the previous one left off, the girls are still trying to figure out who is making potions with dark magic. The villain here was kind of a surprise, and her motives were a little odd, but we it was extremely fun to read this one with them. Again, these books really are very fun and absolutely have my kids totally engaged and constantly trying to figure out the twists and postulating the best ideas about what is going on.

[Cute Rabbit · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the 6th book of star friends series,we see Maia having a dream of someone doing dark magic in the woods.She wakes up and tells bracken about the dream.Then she tells her friends.They go to the woods where they find clues that the person doing dark magic left behind.Then Sita calls them over as she sees a injured bird.The friends work together by sending their power to Sita as she is able to fix the birds wings .Because of this the woods restore a bit due to them doing magic.
On the way back they see Essie .Then they head back and they plan to go to the new shop the next day.Maia goes home where she says hello.Esther who has come to see her mum and gives her mum a new facial cream from her business(Esther was in maia’s mum’s school class when they were young)
The next day Maia goes to the receptionist to buy a jumper & she is really mean.Then at the end of the day at school Sita,Ionie and Maia go to fairytales the new shop & ask about the clue ( a flower) and the owner says that only bad magic comes from that flower
Over the next few days Maia mom starts acting strangely including her father.That morning Lottie says she thinks the person doing dark magic is mrs sands
The girls soon later realise that it isn’t her .Maias mum dad and some of the other parents start acting strangely.Maia is able to create a magic shield that will protect her.The friends spy of the person doing dark magic & nearly get trapped.The person doing dark magic spies on the friends during the night,
The next day,Ionie makes fun of essie in front of everyone.The friends head to the clearing f see a clue that the person doing dark magic is there & Ionie rushes in with Maia rushing in after her.The person doing dark magic was Esther and she is also essie too.Maia creates a magic shield to protect her friends & the friends are able to deafeat Esther and fin out Esther had put in magic in the cream that’s why the parents started acting strangely.The girls are able to save the village again.