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Half magic / Edward Eager ; illustrated by N.M. Bodecker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1999.Edition: 1st Harcourt Brace Young Classics edDescription: 192 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0152020683 (pbk.)
  • 0152020691
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 21
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.E115 Hal 1999
Summary: Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy Eager, Edward 1 Checked out 06/17/2024 33111003917107
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk.

Jane finds the coin, and becasue she and her sblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen.

And something does: Her wish is granted.

Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true.

It turns out the coin grants wishes--but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want.

Wishing for two times some things is a cinch, but other doubled wishes only cause twice as much trouble. What is half of twice a talking cat? Or to be half-again twice not-here? And how do you double your most heartfelt wish, the one you care about so much it has to be perfect?

"An Odyssey/Harcourt Brace young classic."

Sequel: Magic by the lake.

Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.

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