A review by rosenectur
The Wizard in the Tree by Lloyd Alexander

2.0

This book is a cute YA story by the Author of the Chronicles of Prydain (The Black Cauldron, etc.) It features Mallory a downtrodden girl who works as a maid for a greedy and cruel mistress. They live in a downtrodden town that is about to be razed to be replaced by a coal mine. The Wizard, Abrican, who Mallory found trapped in a felled tree losing his powers, but he owes Mallory a gift for freeing him. Together he and Mallory get tangled up with the greedy Squire whose going to turn the town into a coal mine.