A Darker Magic - Softcover

Bedard, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773758887 ISBN 13: 9780773758889

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1997

Synopsis

It began innocently enough with the discovery of an old flyer announcing a long-forgotten magic show held on Saturday, August 8, 1936. But since then, Emily and her teacher, Miss Potts, have been drawn into sinister and frightening shadows from another realm. In a life-and-death struggle, the unlikely pair must overpower the evil that lies waiting at the old railway depot.

But time is running out. Again this year, August 8 falls on a Saturday and Emily's classmate, Craig Chandler, is in grave danger.

He has befriended a mysterious boy and fallen under the spell of a darker magic.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Bedard is a Fitzhenry and Whiteside author.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-10 An elderly teacher finds a handbill for a magic show that she remembers from her youtha show that she feels was responsible for the death of her friend. It seems that another show is scheduled, and Miss Potts fears for the lives of this audience. With the help of Emily, one of her students, she discovers that the magician is a force of pure evil, and the two are able to thwart himthis time. Bedard's well-paced narrative is rich in language and riveting in tone: it brims with a sense of foreboding that is sustained throughout. The ending, which satisfactorily resolves the crisis for these characters, does not provide a solution for the future, thus continuing the disquieting tone. Transitions between chapters and subplotsEmily and her family, Miss Potts and the other lodgers, two other studentsare sometimes demanding, but the integration of these disparate elements into the novel is otherwise well handled. Particularly well done is the characterization of Emily's brother Albert, a monstrous toddler whose activities change the pace and often ease the tension of the main storyline. A well-crafted eerie novel that demands to be read again. David Gale, ``School Library Journal''
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0773758887
• ISBN 13: 9780773758889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184