The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life / The Lives of Christopher Chant Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ever since the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," people have imagined wizards as tall, elderly men with long gray beards, loose robes and pointed hats. Diana Wynne-Jones shatters the cliched image with Chrestomanci, a dapper Englishman who happens to be the nine-lived magician in charge of...

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The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Going into this book I had very high expectations. After all, the Percy Jackson books are such a wonderful and unique offering in children's literature. They are funny, witty, filled with action and adventure, they breathe life into some of my favorite myths... They are hard to top. Pretty much this...

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Chronicles of Narnia Movie Tie-in Box Set The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (rack) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Let me start by saying that I loved these stories as a child. I read "The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe" in fourth grade as a part of class. I was reluctant to read it and had no interest (school kids are like that) but I was sucked into the story very quickly. I had my parents buy me the boxed set...

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Endymion Spring Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although I had read partial reviews that were somewhat negative saying this wasn't the next big thing or certainly not "The Da Vinci Code for kids", I have to admit that I expected more.The story is told in two parts. One is the creation of the spectacular book around which this story revolves, and then...

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Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation," by Neil Howe and William Strauss, attempts to explain the generation of people born between 1982 and 2002. The authors label this group the Millennials; according to the authors' model, the Millennials follow Generation X (born between 1961 and 1981),...

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Paperback Boxed Set (Books 1-3) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a 24 year old married woman, and like many Harry Potter fans I have been reading unfufilling series after unfufilling series for the last few years trying to find something to fill that void. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is fantastic. I have to say I did like the second and third books a little...

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The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I maintain that Late Age of Print is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the print media, media ecology, or media studies in general. Striphas investigates the everydayness of books that he claims is intimately bound with: "a changed and changing mode of production; new technological products...

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Generation Hex: Understanding the Subtle Dangers of Wicca Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been interacting quite a bit with the Pagan community over the Internet in promotion of Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue (Lion Hudson, 2008), and as a result, one of my Pagan contacts asked me if I was aware of a new book by Dillon Burroughs and Marla Alupoaicei titled...

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The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This series of books made me want to be a writer when I grew up. I remember distinctly reading these books and realizing the power that authors have to create a world and populate it with living characters. Ms. Cooper has created a universe in which magic lives just under the surface of the "real" world--her...

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The New York Times Ferocious Crosswords: 150 Hard Puzzles (New York Times Crossword Puzzles) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book of 150 New York Times reprints seems like a selected group of the harder Friday and Saturday puzzles. My usual solving times are 20 minutes for Friday and 30 minutes for Saturday, but these are taking me longer, more like 45 minutes. (I'm no champion solver but I'm not bad either.) My only...

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Robert Pattinson: The Unauthorized Biography Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I got this book for my daughter for her biography report, and she said that it didnt have the exact dates that she needed for her report, but besides that she loved it.Click Here to see more reviews about: Robert Pattinson: The Unauthorized Biography"Robert Pattinson: The Unauthorized Biography" lifts...

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A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this volume, Michael O'Brien has provided both and invaluable service to parents (like myself) who want their children to read, but who are also concerned about much of the reading material currently available. He has analyzed children's literature, concentrating especially in the genre of fantasy...

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The Secret of Platform 13 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was written years before Harry ever wound up on a publisher's desk, and it should not be viewed in comparison to J.K. Rowling's books. The value of Platform 13 comes in the delightful opportunities for imagination and discussion when an adult and a child read it together. We used this book...

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Order of the Ancient Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I ordered this book as soon as it was available and when I got it I couldn't stop reading it! I'm 19 and loved it! I have recommended it to all the kids at my church and each one that reads it enjoys it. It reminds kids that living for Chirst is an adventure.Click Here to see more reviews about: Order...

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Quidditch Through the Ages Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This cute little book was actually part of a pair (along with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) produced by J.K. Rowling for the charity Comic Relief. Written in a tongue in cheek manner, this books appears to be straight from the Hogwarts School Library, complete with borrow & due date list...

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So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"So You Want To Be A Wizard" is the beginning of an exciting and tantalizing series where wizardry and life in the city are a little too close for comfort. Nita, an intelligent but physically unendowed 13-year-old, finds refuge in the kid's section of the library after a particularly bad beating by a...

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Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin (Ologies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a 24 y/o woman but I enjoy reading about mythology, magic and the like. I saw this book at Borders and I just had to pick it up. I don't know what the cover is made from, but the material is soft and screams for you to touch it. Inside the book, I was amazed at how well crafted it is. The thought...

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