Did you know that October 25-31 is International Magic Week? Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite tricky, mysterious, magic-inspired titles!
Scarecrow Magic (by Ed Masessa, Illustrated by Matt Myers): A rhyming tale of the mystical powers of a full moon and how it affects a humble-seeming farm dweller. This scarecrow may look like he’s nothing more than a sack of hay during the day, but he comes to life on moonlit nights!
Olive & Beatrix (by Amy Marie Stadelmann): Part of the Branches line, the Olive & Beatrix series features twin sisters who are very different from each other! Olive loves science and nature, and exploring. But Beatrix is a witch who loves tricks and magic!
Upside-Down Magic (by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins): Nory Horace is nine years old. She's resourceful, she's brave, she likes peanut butter cookies. Also, she's able to transform into many different animals. Unfortunately, Nory's shape-shifting talent is a bit wonky. And when she flunks out of her own father's magic academy, Nory's forced to enter public school, where she meets a group of kids whose magic is, well, different.
A Snicker of Magic (by Natalie Lloyd): Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was before a curse drove the magic away. When twelve-year-old Felicity arrives in Midnight Gulch, she thinks her own bad luck is about to change. A "word collector," Felicity sees words everywhere — shining above strangers, tucked into church eves, and tangled up her dog's floppy ears — but Midnight Gulch is the first place she's ever seen the word "home."
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures (by Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce): Because of a Unicorn Incident at her school, Pip is spending the summer at the Cloverton Clinic for Magical Creatures. At first, it's all fun and games, but when Fuzzles appear and start bursting into flame at the worst possible places, Pip and her new friend Tomas must take action.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, illustrated edition (by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay): What’s more magical than Hogwarts? And, to be honest, we’d go so far as to say that the enchanting illustrations by Jim Kay are magical in their own right.
Foxcraft (by Inbali Iserles): Isla and her brother are two young foxes living just outside the lands of humans. Returning to her den, Isla finds it set ablaze and surrounded by strange foxes. In order to survive, she will need to master the magical gifts of cunning known only to foxes.
When My Heart Was Wicked (by Tricia Sterling): 16-year-old Lacy believes that magic and science can work side by side. When her father dies, Lacy tries to stay with her step-mother, where her magic is good and healing. She fears the darkness that her real mother, Cheyenne, brings out. Yet Cheyenne never stays away for long. Beautiful, bewitching, unstable Cheyenne who will stop at nothing, not even black magic, to keep control of her daughter's heart.
Shadowshaper (by Daniel José Older): Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears... Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on. With the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories.
