Shamanka

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Mary Norton

With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three children go on a number of exciting and gruesome trips. Contains both titles: "The Magic Bedknob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks." In *The Magic Bedknob*, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In *Bonfires and Broomsticks* two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London.

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Justine Larbalestier

When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.

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Ted Sanders

Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life and the world as we know it.

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Charlie Fletcher

When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.