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Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Learn to read minds, conduct hypnosis, and predict the future! Instead of employing visual magic, the tricks in this book help aspiring performers exercise mental powers that seem downright supernatural. Seasoned magician James L. Clark shares his professional secrets with 15 psychological illusions that require little practice and even less effort to perform. Amaze spectators by stopping your pulse, predicting their answers to your questions, and...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley is a sparkling historical novel of wild and wonderful mechanical automata, love in a variety of forms, and gentle themes of identity, with a cast of fabulous characters. In 1755, Abel Cloudesley, a London watchmaker and creator of remarkable mechanical automata, is mourning his wife, Alice, who died giving birth to their son, Zachary. Six years later, Abel is further devastated when a freak workshop accident...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
Author
Publisher
University Of Hertfordshire Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A useful manual for any magician or curious spectator who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician's work. Exploring the ways in which human psychology plays into the methods of conjuring rather than focusing on the individual tricks alone, this explanation of the general principles of magic includes chapters on the use of misdirection, sleight of hand, and reconstruction, provides a better understanding...
Author
Series
Warriors volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy ShadowClan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From little table tricks to grand illusions, this how-to book by a famed performer and author offers something for every aspiring magician. More than 200 popular illusions - accompanied by simple, well-illustrated explanations - range from several ways to make a handkerchief disappear to dissolving a billiard ball and stage levitation. A wide variety of attention-getting stunts include sleight of hand, tricks with coins and hats, stage performances,...
Author
Series
Familiars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three young wizards-in-training are kidnapped by an evil queen and their familiars--Aldwyn the alley cat, Skylar, a know-it-all blue jay, and Gilbert a tree frog who can see the future--set out on a dangerous journey to rescue the boys.
9) Steel Magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan. Fascinated by the haunting history...
10) The Dragon Tree
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
One mystical tree. One dangerous neighbor. Strange and magical things continually occur at the Hall family's home at 40 Walden Street. Now there's a terrible sound throughout the town of Concord-the buzzing of a chain saw. Only one thing is worse for Eddy and Georgie Hall than that noise: the man who causes it, Mortimer Moon. When all the trees in town are falling to his hand and he threatens the mysterious tree sprouting in the Halls' backyard, Georgie...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Make coins vanish and reappear, make handkerchiefs change color, and make friends, family, and other audiences gasp with delight at your dazzling sleight-of-hand tricks. You can learn the secrets behind dozens of classic maneuvers from Alfred C. Gilbert, a manufacturer of magic kits. The renowned toymaker shared his conjuring secrets in Gilbert Coin Tricks and Gilbert Handkerchief Magic. Published a century ago, these two charming guides are now available...
Author
Series
Publisher
IFWG Publishing International
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Garza family's Christmas vacation in Mexico is cut short by the appearance of Pingo, one of the tzapame - Little People. The news is grim - a rogue prince from an ancient undersea kingdom is seeking the Shadow Stone, a device he will use to flood the world and wipe out humanity. Now Carol and Johnny must join a group of merfolk and travel into the deepest chasms of the Pacific Ocean to stop him and his monstrous army with their savage magic.
13) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Warriors volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fireheart, a full-fledged warrior cat, must confront questions of loyalty and identity as he faces the possibility of betrayal from within his own forest clan.
14) The Jewel Seed
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An English orphan unwittingly holds the key to a powerful source of magic The graduation ceremony of the Grand and Ancient College of Siberian Witches takes place in the winter darkness of the Far North. But despite the celebration, the night is full of warnings and worry. The Wanderer is abroad in search of the coveted Jewel Seed that has been lost for centuries. Whoever finds it can unlock all knowledge and will have unlimited power. . . . ...
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the New York Times bestselling sequel to Soman Chainani's debut, The School for Good and Evil , Sophie and Agatha are back in Gavaldon, living out their Happily Ever After, but life isn't quite the fairy tale they expected. Witches and princesses reside at the School for Girls, where they've been inspired to live a life without princes, while Tedros and the boys are camping in Evil's old towers. A war is brewing between the schools, but can Agatha...
16) The quest begins
Author
Series
Seekers volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three young bears of different species--one black, one polar, and one grizzly--travel on a perilous quest to the Northern Lights, escorting a shape-shifting grizzly cub whose destiny will affect them all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kaytek, a mischievous schoolboy who wants to become a wizard, is surprised to discover that he is able to perform magic spells and change reality. He begins to lead a double life: a powerful wizard in the dress of an ordinary boy. It's all great fun using magic to cause strange incidents in his school and neighborhood, but soon Kaytek's increasing powers cause major chaos around the city of Warsaw. Disillusioned, he leaves the country and wanders...
18) Physik
Author
Series
Septimus Heap volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Pulled through a glass that brings him back in time, Septimus Heap becomes the apprentice of an alchemist.
20) The Blazing Star
Author
Series
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover the origins of the warrior Clans in this thrilling prequel to Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series The fourth book in the Dawn of the Clans series takes readers back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge the warrior code. The first great battle has ended, and each group has agreed to a truce. But merely keeping the peace may not guarantee their survival. When a deadly...
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