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1) Half Magic
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Tales of magic volume 1
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English
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Book one in the series called "truly magic in a reader's hands" by Jack Gantos, Newbery Medal winner for Dead End in Norvelt.
It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen.
And something does: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half of her
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Tales of magic volume 2
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English
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Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe.
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Tales of magic volume 3
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English
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On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers.
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When is magic not magic?
Laura is a girl who goes out of her way to find adventure. So when her family moves to a house with a well in the yard-a wishing well, according to Lydia, Laura's opinionated, horse-mad, outrageous new neighbor-Laura is all too willing to make a wish and see what happens.
Plenty happens.
Thanks to the well, Laura and her new friends help save Miss Isabella's house from foreclosure, rescue the almost long-lost heir to a fortune,...
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All books are magic, but some are more magical than others.
When Susan opens a strange library book, she discovers it is about her and her friends, leading up to the moment when she opened the book. Beyond that, the pages are blank... waiting for the children to wish the book full of adventures.
Fredericka asks for wizards and beasties, and a dragon carries her off. Susan journeys to the world of Half Magic, and finds that mixing magic creates trouble-far...
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The wishing well is all used up, its magic drained, its enchantment gone dry. Or has it? In a reckless moment, Gordy threatens the old well, telling it to get going with its magic or else! and suddenly he and his friends are plunged into just the sort of adventures they'd longed for. But is it really the well's magic that transforms troublemaker Dicky LeBaron from ne'er-do-well to hero? Or keeps Appledore's orchard in bloom? Or sends James on a daring...
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This is a Chilean tale of two brothers, one rich and one poor. One day the poor brother overhears a pair of elves singing in the forest. He teaches them another verse, and the elves give him a reward. The rich brother soon becomes jealous. Will he also receive the same treatment from the elves?
15) A tale of magic
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2019.
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English
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"When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame...
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Tale of magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
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Nothing too strange ever happens to Gertie and Bridget Mallon.
The sisters don't have magical adventures fighting off dark lords or saving the world. Gertie spends her time learning the skill of enchantment, and Bridget has the ability to see things, no one else can, see with her left eye, which was bewitched in an accident many years ago.
Sure, they attend Flories Boarding School, where Gertie takes a potions class and Bridget plays basketball, and...
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Gertie and Bridget have a mission.
After sorting through the odds and ends they found at a yard sale, they've found a buyer for an unusual statue. The only problem is the buyer is on the other side of the country.
With no alternative methods available, Gertie, Bridget, and their friends hop in a purple minivan and set off across Crescyth. Of course, any road trip has its problems, but between a chaotic gas station stop, a dangerously malfunctioning...
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Gertie and Bridget Mallon were able to survive their first semester at Flories Boarding School.
That, in and of itself, was quite an accomplishment. One would think they now have a handle on things, that life could be as normal as possible in a world of magic, ghosts and smartphones. Gertie can go back to practicing for her enchanting license, and Bridget for her driver's license. However, as much as the Mallon sisters would like things to be simple,...
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Tale of magic volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The Southern Kingdom is in the grip of Emperor Seven and his war on both magic, books, and learning; even worse, a malignant darkness is rising and threatening everybody, including Brystal Evergreen, who has gathered allies among the fairies and other magical creatures to confront the threat, but she is also aware that the days of her life are slipping away, and if she does not find the Book of Sorcery in a few weeks she will die.
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