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1) Half Magic
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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 wish comes true. It turns out the coin grants wishes-but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want. Wishing for two times some things...
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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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Time and again, the children from Knight's Castle have longed for another magic adventure. But you can't find magic just anywhere. It doesn't just grow like grass. It requires the right place and the right time-
Or thyme, as the case may be.
For at Mrs. Whiton's house, magic grows wild as the fragrant banks of thyme in her garden. Eliza insists that time doesn't grow, it flies-yet growing in the garden is olden time, future time, and common time....
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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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Just in time for the holiday season, four classic Edward Eager Tales of Magic in one affordable package.
Ever since Half Magic first hit bookshelves in 1954, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic have been favorites with readers of all ages. Now his four most popular stories-Half Magic, Knight's Castle, Magic by the Lake, and The Time Garden-are available in one handsome package. Perfect for gift-giving or for introducing eager new readers to a whole world...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2019.
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Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021
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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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"BRYSTAL EVERGREEN HA CAMBIADO AL MUNDO PERO ESTE VIAJE RECIÉN COMIENZA... "
Junto a sus amigos ha hecho del mundo un lugar que acepta a la comunidad mágica y ha derrotado a la Reina de las Nieves. Sin embargo, cuando una nueva bruja llega a la academia y comienza a reclutar aprendices para su escuela de brujas, queda claro que no tiene buenas intenciones. Especialmente cuando Lucy, la amiga de Brystal, se ve envuelta en un siniestro complot contra...
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