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The Books of Magic #6: Reckonings

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Overview

Timothy Hunter is just like any other thirteen ' year ' old boy in London ' except for the tiny fact that he might be the most powerful magician of his time.

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Bio of Carla Jablonski

Carla Jablonski has edited and written dozens of best-selling books for children and young adults. She is also an actress, a playwright, and a trapeze artist, and has performed extensively in Scotland and in New York City. A lifelong resident of New York City, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bio of John Bolton

John Bolton started his career as a comic artist with 'House of Hammer/Halls of Horror' in the late seventies. He worked for Marvel UK, and in 1981, he created a story for the American publication 'Bizarre Adventures', which resulted in more work overseas, including 'Marada the She Wolf' for the magazine Epic Illustrated. Bolton applied his "full painted" graphic style to several titles during the eighties, such as 'Pathways to Fantasy', 'Alien Worlds', 'Twisted Tales', 'Alien Encounters', 'Tales of Terror' and 'Tapping the Vein'. In the nineties, he created 'Orbit', 'Clive Barker's The Yattering' and 'Jack'.

Bio of Neil Gaiman

Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in modern comics, and has also penned many books for readers of all ages, including American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and M Is for Magic. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. He has written multiple New York Times bestselling books, and is a Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus Award winner. He has also worked in support of First Amendment rights, and was awarded the Defender of Liberty Award in August 1997 by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for his efforts. Born and raised in England, Neil now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and tends to always need a haircut.

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HarperCollins

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499.47 KB

Number of Pages

192

eBook ISBN

9780061237713

Excerpt from: The Books of Magic #6: Reckonings by Carla Jablonski

Chapter One

Timothy Hunter winced as Molly O'Reilly's mother launched into a tirade.

"I've told you to stop calling," Mrs. O'Reilly snapped on the other end of the phone line. "Molly is not allowed to speak to you. And if you ring again, I'll be speaking to your father about it."

Mrs. O'Reilly's cold fury came through the phone with such intensity that Tim imagined icicles forming along the line. He forced the thought aside. Being magic, he had learned that sometimes if he imagined something, it could actually happen. The last thing he needed was to have to explain to his exasperated, irritated, melancholy dad how the phone froze.

"Have I made myself quite clear, young man?" Mrs. O'Reilly demanded. "But" Tim began to protest, then stopped himself. Mrs. O'Reilly was being unreasonable, but for him to say so would only get him and Molly in deeper trouble. Adults hated it when they were corrected by thirteen-year-olds. He and Molly were in deep enough as it was.

"But?" Mrs. O'Reilly repeated, the word coming out as with frosty and incredulous admonishment.

Tim cringed. You really need to learn to keep your mouth shut, he told himself. "How dare you try to defend yourself to me, Timothy Hunter," she scolded.

If he'd had any doubt before, he knew he was in trouble for sure now. Molly's mom usually liked him, and she only used his whole name if she was particularly angry or horribly worried. Like the time he was eight years old and she had been taking care of him and Molly, and he had managed to knock himself out on the swing set. She had called him "Timothy Hunter" then, too.

"After keeping my daughter out all night," she exploded, "without any explanation! Lord knows what the two of you got up to"

"Nothing!" Tim blurted. "We didn't do anything wrong, I swear."

Mrs. O'Reilly snorted. "That may be true. Then again, maybe not. So leave Molly alone."

Slam went the phone. Tim replaced the receiver glumly. "Well, that was less than useless," he muttered.