by [text by] Angela McAllister (2009)
Wanting to prove to his brothers and sister that magic really exists, Leon volunteers to be in Abdul Kazam's magic show and gets transported to a mysterious world. The reader may accompany Leon to the Place Between by looking through die-cut holes in the pages.
Gerald Kolpan
Julius, a Jewish immigrant, is captured by an Indian tribe, where he becomes an interpreter and falls in love with the chief's daughter, but his life unravels after his magician cousin begins an affair with a murderous prostitute.
Gyo Fujikawa
While practicing magic tricks, four children accidentally let a pet canary loose and must use real magic to get it back again.
Trudi Canavan
This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work--until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders ... and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.
Bruce Coville
Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.