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Book Magic

"The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." - Seven-Day Magic. Be enchanted by these children’s books about the magic and power of books!

Pima County Public Library

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  • Books take Jack and Annie wherever they want to go. "The tree house was filled with books. Books everywhere. Very old books with dusty covers. New books with shiny, bright covers... Jack opened the dinosaur book to where the bookmark was. He…
    Paperback, 1992New York : Random House, c1992. — Fiction Osborne Pbk CHILD
  • This is the fourth book in the Inkheart series. From Bibliocommons: "Five years after the events of Inkdeath, peace reigns in Ombra, where Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger and others are happy, but Orpheus, who fled north, lives a deprived existence fueled by…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2024. — Fiction Funke CHILD
  • This is the last book in the Never After series. From Bibliocommons: "Return to the land of Never After for the last time in the riveting conclusion to New York Times–bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz's hit middle-grade series perfect for fans…
    Book, 2024New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2024. — Fiction Delacruz CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks…
    Book, 2024Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2024] — Fiction Magoon CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Siblings Rachel, twelve, and Robert, fourteen, are passed a stolen book by their librarian father and must track down the missing final page while protecting the book from falling into the hands of the cruel ruler of Krasnia,…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023. — Fiction Farr CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Two siblings uncover a new world, featuring Night Librarians and characters literally bursting from their favorite books, in this thrilling graphic novel about the magic that libraries hold."--
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024. — Fiction Lincoln CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "From one of Mexico's foremost authors comes a wondrous adventure story of a boy who goes to live with his kooky, book-obsessed uncle in a library where books have supernatural powers."
    eBook, 2017Restless Books, 2017
  • From Bibliocommons: "All books are magic, but some are more magical than others. When Susan opens a strange library book, she discovers it is about her and her friends, leading up to the moment when she opened the book. Beyond that, the pages are…
    Paperback, 2016New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] — Fiction Eager Pbk CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "What if your favorite characters came to life? Billy’s spending the summer in a lakeside cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there’s Dr.…
    Paperback, 2016New York : A Yearling Book, 2016. — Fiction Grabenstein Pbk CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale…
    Book, 2012New York : Little, Brown, 2012. — Fiction Colfer CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: Eleven-year-old Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any stories, and decides to seek her mother.
    Book, 2019New York : Philomel Books, 2019. — Fiction James CHILD
  • This is the first book in the Inkheart series. "For the very first time in her life Maggie wasn't sure she wanted to enter the world waiting for her between the covers of a book. All the bad things that had happened over the last three days seemed…
    Paperback, 2003New York : Scholastic, 2003. — Fiction Funke Pbk CHILD
  • This is the first book in the Never After series. From Bibliocommons: "Real life and fairy tales collide in The Thirteenth Fairy, book one in the new middle-grade Never After series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.…
    Book, 2020New York, New York Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — Fiction DelaCruz CHILD
  • "Every real story is a Neverending Story."
    Paperback, 1997New York : Puffin Books, 1997. — Fiction Ende Pbk CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "The Forbidden Library kicks off an action-packed fantasy series with classic appeal, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes—perfect for fans of Story Thieves, Coraline, Inkheart,…
    Paperback, 2015New York, New York : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2015. — Fiction Wexler Pbk CHILD
  • Beware the Monster Book of Monsters!
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2017. — Fiction Rowling CHILD
  • From Bibliocommons: "Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that Bethany is half-fictional and has been…
    Book, 2015New York : Aladdin, 2015. — Fiction Riley CHILD