BAG OF TRICKS Eleven-year-old Juice Smith's favorite place in the whole world was the old abandoned Wilner Theatre. There on its dark and dusty stage she could pretend to be "Juice the Magnifico" performing magic with her bag of tricks. Her grandfather, a long-time member of the local Sleights-of-Hand, had given her a special skeleton key, and to Juice's surprise it fit right in the lock of the ornate old trunk that had been left backstage … BLACK MAGIC The Sleights-of-Hand were furious when they discovered at their next meeting that Nat Smith had given his skeleton key–the skeleton key–to his granddaughter. Nat wondered what they could possible be afraid of after all these years. But one by one over the next few weeks, the venerable members of the Sleights-of-Hand would find their magical talents failing them at crucial–and gruesome–moments. And Nat would discover there was good reason to be afraid. Very afraid.

Score! Malcolm and Dandy have found a winning bottle cap and are ready to claim their prize. But on the way, Malcolm drops it and it rolls away. Thanks to a nice, old woman, the cap is happily returned--only to vanish into thin air. The boys soon learn that it was taken by the Great Zucchini, a famous magician of long ago. But Zucchini doesn't realize that Malcolm has a few tricks of his own. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

The show must go on! A mysterious trunk filled with props for their latest performance packs a walloping punch to the Backyard Players. When a magic wand turns out to really be magic, the friends must find a way to reverse the spell before the curtain rises. This chapter book is perfect for fans of the Magic Tree house series and for kids who love putting on performances.

Is it the sleight or the quickness of the tongue that counts as cunningness? Who wants to crack the door to a mysterious world and walk through the hidden halls with the famous illusionist Edi? A criminal short story full of adventure and thrill, you will be swept away from a magical world to the reality. You will be the prisoners of your own curiosity!

Dr. Thomas D. McClure, a Harvard professor of linguistics, receives an unusual request from the government, specifically, NASA, about taking a sabbatical from teaching and undertaking a designated top-secret assignment. Robuku Makolu, aka Robby McKoy, native to an insignificant South Pacific island and director of Remote Island Ministries, is in San Francisco, CA, for an international conference, when he is contacted unexpectedly by a clairvoyant childhood friend he hasn’t seen in nearly forty years. In a matter of days, Robby is drawn into a top-secret assignment placing his people and their way of life in jeopardy. The discovery of two alien gadgets, a break-in at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and a CIA investigation, force Robby into a world far beyond Earth that orbits in the crosshairs of the U.S. government where Tom convinces Robby nothing is as it seems. Is Tom a sociopathic manipulator or does he have the voice of the government’s secret exoplanet buried within him? This psychological thriller with sci-fi elements will cause us to wrestle with how much of life is beyond what we can see.

Don't you wish there was a "magic" formula for activities and games that... - Your loved one on the autism spectrum actually wants to participate in? - Develops their interactive attention span and socialization? There is! Designed around common special interests enjoyed by autistic people, this book includes over 180 activities for families to do together to help strengthen relationships and develop social skills. Kate shows how seven magic ingredients for optimal game-playing can be applied to a range of themes, from trains and planes to household appliances, the human body to animals and insects, TV and film characters, and what's more, how you can introduce your loved one's favorite topics. She shares "Presto Chango" beliefs - the five mindsets you need to power activities - as well as how to understand the magic of timing and knowing when to start and stop an activity based on your loved one's cues.

A new edition of this popular trumpet tutor, ideal for home practice. It has a bright new cover giving it a fresh and contemporary new look, and is the perfect book for pupil and teacher.

What do you do if the family business is magic and you’re all fingers and thumbs? If your family are magicians and builders of tricks and illusions for other magicians and you can’t even pull a rabbit from a hat, do you turn your back on magic and walk away as far away from Abracadabra St as you can...or do you try and overcome the hand you’re dealt?

"Alphabet or Abracadabra? - Reverse Engineering The Western Alphabet" details a ground-breaking discovery: the origin of the western 'abecedary' - the alphabet's sequence of letters.(Not to be confused with the origin of the design of the western alphabet letters.) It must have been somewhere between 3400 and 3700 years ago that the western alphabet's linear sequence of characters (abecedary) was created by following an already existing tabular model of a South Asian Pre-Sanskrit 'abugida' or 'alpha-syllabary'. In spite of it looking quite disorderly, the western alphabet letter sequence is found to be based on that ancient orderly pattern, a pattern that categorized sounds by how and where they were articulated in the mouth. This study retraces the steps of how that copying process took place, a process that also included a number of 'errors and omissions' made by one, perhaps two ancient scribes most likely from the Near East. The errors eventually resulted in the apparent disorder of the western 'ABC'. By tracking these 'copied' errors across a number of ancient alphabets, the author was not only able to reconstruct the copying process, but he also arrived at a date before which it must have taken place.

Abracadabra! Beginning magicians will amaze their family and friends with their magical abilities! The easy step-by-step instructions in this book teach beginning magicians easy tricks like the Amazing Appearing Ball, Fast Rabbit and the Ace, and more -- while entertaining an audience at the same time. And with free video tutorials on the Capstone 4D augmented reality app, readers can watch the tricks performed in real time and learn the secrets to making them work. Aspiring magicians will be showing off their magical skills in no time!