Half Magic- Edward Eager

Title: Half Magic
Author: Eager, Edward
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1954
ISBN-13: 9780152330811

Genre: Fantasy
Reading Level: 830 Lexile
Interest Level: 8+

Readers Annotation: Four cousins go on vacation and find a magical charm. Well, its partly magical.

Plot:
Four cousins, Jane, Katherine, Mark and Martha are on vacation with the family when they come across a small coin. This coin is about the size of a nickel but looks very different. The four soon find out this charm is not only beautiful but magical. But it is not just magical, it is full of half magic. This means that in order to get what you want, you have to wish for twice as much. Finding this out takes some time though and a few wishes only half come true. The charm helps the four travel through time as well as allowing them to do things they could not do before. With one summer, the four cousins have many magical adventures that continues in the following books by Eager.

Review:
This book has been read by people of all ages for almost 60 years. It is a lighthearted story about magical happenings. The adventures are fun and fast paced making this story easy to read and quite interesting. Children and adults alike get swept into the adventures the children have in this book. The values of realizing when it is time to give something up is in this book as well. Books do not stay popular for this long without a reason for it.

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