Title and author unknown, sorry.
I suspect it's from a major author.
Perhaps written in the '80s or earlier
Set in a remote American location, perhaps a valley - certainly an isolated area.
A young woman with supernatural powers - perhaps specifically to control the forces of nature - ends up in this valley.
If memory serves she is working as a schoolteacher. She may have come there after several attempts to integrate into other societies. Perhaps she has to guard constantly against doing minor supernatural stuff - do I remember her levitating to write at the top of a blackboard?
There is an incident where her schoolchildren (perhaps on a trip away somewhere?) are threatened (perhaps by some naturaly calamity, a forest fire or a tornado, maybe?) and this young woman invokes whatever forces she draws on to protect the kids - maybe there's an anaolgy of gathering them under her cloak or some such?
She invokes major powers to protect the kids, and, instead of being run out of town as a witch - or similar fates which have befallen her previously - finds that she's in a small community where such abilities are common and is, eventually "Home".
I'm sure it's a well-known one.
Cheers
Mike
I suspect it's from a major author.
Perhaps written in the '80s or earlier
Set in a remote American location, perhaps a valley - certainly an isolated area.
A young woman with supernatural powers - perhaps specifically to control the forces of nature - ends up in this valley.
If memory serves she is working as a schoolteacher. She may have come there after several attempts to integrate into other societies. Perhaps she has to guard constantly against doing minor supernatural stuff - do I remember her levitating to write at the top of a blackboard?
There is an incident where her schoolchildren (perhaps on a trip away somewhere?) are threatened (perhaps by some naturaly calamity, a forest fire or a tornado, maybe?) and this young woman invokes whatever forces she draws on to protect the kids - maybe there's an anaolgy of gathering them under her cloak or some such?
She invokes major powers to protect the kids, and, instead of being run out of town as a witch - or similar fates which have befallen her previously - finds that she's in a small community where such abilities are common and is, eventually "Home".
I'm sure it's a well-known one.
Cheers
Mike
