7/6/2023 0 Comments The magic thief home![]() ![]() It is a fourth book, and so best appreciated by those who loved the first three. Now another Cybils season is here, and lo, The Magic Thief: Home (HarperCollins, September 2014) is not only in the world, it is on the list of nominated books, which means that I actually read it (all to often I fall into the trap of buying books I really really want to read right when they come out, and then letting them sit because, uh, I know I'll enjoy them.so at least this one didn't have too terribly long to wait). Which was lovely too, but it resulted in a long and anxious wait for those of us (like me and my target audience member child) Magic Thief: Found in 2010.which were kind of sadder, so it was harder for me to love them personally as much, and then Sarah Prineas wrote a ![]() It has an interesting story, endearing characters, fascinating magic, a tough older man (Bennet) who knits and bakes biscuits (so few middle grade novels shatter gender stereotypes, and this is one of the best examples going!). The passage of years has not changed my opinion- it is a great book for a ten or eleven year old fantasy reader. Small group of books I was determined to push onto our final shortlist of elementary and middle grade speculative fiction. ![]() It was one of theįirst books I read for the Cybils that year, and it stayed firmly in the Magic Thief was one of my favorite books of 2008. ![]()
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