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Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and...
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Charlie Howard, a crime writer, thief, and amateur magician, is a bit jealous when he sees his agent, Victoria, being charmed at a Las Vegas roulette table by illusionist Josh Masters, so he decides to break into Master's hotel room and help himself to a safe full of casino chips, which makes him feel better until Masters disappears and he and Victoria are charged by the casino with cheating.
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"The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity."
As every fan of the Harry Potter stories knows, the shelves of the Hogwarts Library are home to all sorts of fascinating books. There are three in particular you might have heard mentioned by certain Hogwarts students, and that you can add to your reading list too, including...
8) Magic spell
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Feeling unappreciated during the performance, a magician's assistant grabs the wand and performs some feats of her own.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Robbie Darko is an old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician, but despite his best efforts, something always goes wrong with his tricks until crotchety Grandma Melvyn moves in and teaches him something about the true meaning of magic.
11) Magician
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
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English
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At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the Kingdom of the Isles, a humble orphan boy is apprenticed to a master magician--and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Bertie the badger visits his grandfather at a retirement home for magicians, he learns that his grandfather's rabbit, Enigma, has disappeared along with everyone's magical things, and the reader is invited to help break a code to find the items hidden throughout the book. Includes a built-in decoder.
13) Poof! a bot!
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps a bot and tells it what to do, but the bot does not listen. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When best friends Dominic, Loop, and Z stumble upon the new magic shop in town, they know just how they will spend their summer vacation--mastering cool tricks so they can gain further access into the secret world of magic.
18) Mr. Vertigo
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Viking Books
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Walter Claireborne Rawley learns magic and becomes an American hero, then lives out his days long after the magic is forgotten.
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Chicago wizard Harry Dresden investigates the slayings of several of the city's supernatural underclass by a murderer referencing the book of Exodus and the killing of witches and finds himself caught in a power struggle with the White Court of vampires and trying to clear his half brother Thomas's name.
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