“A poppet looks like a doll but is filled with magic.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s really no such thing as a magic trick with a marble-shooting robot.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“You tricked me! The French, the magic ... you are a touril” he said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She focused on the magic stores deep within her body, and noticed sadly how depleted they were. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Everybody with legs would come out to see any performer who bore the magic name “New York.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had always warned us against playing with magic. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

What kind of creature could tear someone’s magic ability away from them? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As a youth, he displayed prodigious talents for magic and for chess, at which he could play two blindfold games simultaneously. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bryce said, “You got to look for falling stars. Them are the ones with magic.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

To Pocock, this unflagging resilience—this readiness to bounce back, to keep coming, to persist in the face of resistance—was the magic in cedar, the unseen force that imparted life to the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shush orders were an arcane type of magic, something their ancestors had used to keep dissenters quiet back when only the wealthiest had any rights. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Their testimony is very important, because they were the only members of the family who lived completely removed from the three-legged table, protected from magic and spiritualism by their rigid English boarding school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The magic’s too big. Doesn’t seem like it, but it is. Could hurt someone. You never know.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to see his magic stone,” Seth mumbled. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I stare at the lopped-off branches for a while, realizing that I’m still too short to see the magic from down here. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had no jet boots, no ship, and no magic items or memorized spells. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to do a magic act with Tim,” I tell Dad. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Who could have imagined so much color that the ground disappears and we are left walking through an autumn's worth of crazy words that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands become side dishes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Thus, in simple terms, Bentley was right: the new science did undermine belief in magic and witchcraft, just as it undermined belief in astrology and alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And with each footprint, Glerk became increasingly aware that the magic leaking from the young girl’s feet was growing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He dug into the dirt again, pulling up another sapling, gathering another thread of magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons the Globe was such a hip, exclusive club was because it was located in a PvP zone, one where both magic and technology functioned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had started to say that magic was for babies. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Waking from her first kiss, still flush with the magic of the extraordinary night, Sarai had been buoyant, and alive with new hope. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He made the mountain lion lie down in front and then he was ready for his magic. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know anything about magic screechers,” I said. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s magic in all of us,” Birdie said. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Now, though, instead of magic, what seemed to be flying into the car was everydayness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very air felt alive with possibility, charged with souls and magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The magic is breaking up. In fifteen minutes we’re going to be in the middle of overground daytime. The neutrino streams are losing their integrity.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When we left the children behind, my magic book kept us informed of their doings. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No advanced magic. No flying. We’ll probably be stuck working for one of the terrible families on...” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I’m doing a magic trick or a dangerous science experiment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Onward then. Music and magic. Triumph and folly.Think now. What does our story need? What vital element is it lacking?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a brief moment, she thought of the old woman from the marketplace, what she’d said about magic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The revelation of the true nature of fool magic chilled her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Anya chewed on a bite of apple, nearly hypnotized by Marina’s casual magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“What, has she got magic ears as well as an eye, now?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas believed that there was a double foundation to magic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The magic horn had become so attuned to her emotions it could amplify her anger, love or grief and spew forth its bounty accordingly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“But how . . .” “I have magic,” I said quickly, “and this is my familiar. I can control him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When wayfarers were met, it was as if they had appeared by magic, out of nowhere. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was close enough to hear her say, “There’s magic in this room with you here, Mr. Terupt. Magic.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

No gym, thanks to a magic note from Dr. Parker. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“But don’t touch anything, and don’t hurt anything, and no magic.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She kept whispering it like a magic charm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s mental, if you could steal magic there wouldn’t be any Squibs, would there?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Clark wrote that some of the tribes thought York was magic, thought he was some kind of supernatural being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well . . . not the music. Don’t ask about that, or why he doesn’t do magic anymore.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Roseland itself is no longer a thing of magic once the dancing’s done. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mill about the holographic magic of Sagan, sucking down tonic from the rainbow waterfall after the news they’re going to spend the rest of their lives on this ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And something else with a magic theme, or jokes and gags, or . The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there enough magic in the woods to make her belong? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Anya hadn’t ever thought her hands could be as magical to a dragon as his...well, his actual magic was to her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At one end sat Chiron the centaur, his equine posterior collapsed into his magic wheelchair so he looked like a regular human. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Lanesha. Your mother and father made magic when they made you.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“What magic?” the madwoman said, stepping next to Xan, curling her arm around the old woman to keep her upright, and giving Sister Ignatia a hard look. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The same is true for magic people and sweet potatoes, I don’t know why. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed like, with the magistrate’s disappearance from the village, the people were less afraid to use magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And the magic through which “to ground" can become “donor gut," combined with his newfound feeling that he had at some recent point received a donor gut, kept his pace quick. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Except in this family... Only Mama uses water magic. Papa doesn’t have it, and none of my brothers have it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

What curious magic has brought her to this moment? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The tin was magic; it vibrated and produced a different sound depending on what angle the water hit it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the same magic as her Vision, but it was closer than anything she’d found yet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever the circumstances, he told his deepest secrets to the girl, the hidden keys to all his magic. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bringing people to this rally was magic that had you soaring above trees. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she starts with a good potion. The magic just helps it work faster, or something.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, she was a woman of much magic. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

‘That isn’t your mother. Her voice is working some kind of magic on you - like charmspeak, but more dangerous. Can’t you sense it?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I walk into the kitchen, Mom is standing at the stove, working her magic. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You might not have a choice, Amari. If you were ever to be challenged by another magician, you could have your magic stolen. Magicians don’t survive that.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

What if she became a bat mitzvah and got her magic then and he missed that, too? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Simple fool magic. All it requires is its wielder not attempt to use it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Around Cange people whispered that it was obvious Farmer had the gift of healing, but they added, “Doktè Paul works with both hands”—that is, both with medical science and with the magic of sorcery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the Dragon King was right. Maybe the magic takes a different form in our land. Maybe that’s why you don’t need words for it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, this has been in the magic fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Xan had felt she could spare the magic, she would have transformed right then and there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was some kind of container, an enormous box on wheels, and it must’ve been magic, because there’s no way it could’ve held all of him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, that girl hates you. Guess the magic is over.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I know. They're all talking about it—I heard them. They say she can work magic like you, and now Capricorn doesn't have to wait for you anymore. He doesn't need you now.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He went over that magic bridge and still talked and looked like always? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know any magic tricks to make garbage disappear? Can’t you just wave a wand or something?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Drawn on the light cement wall in thick black magic marker are three neat swastikas. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Hoping it would conjure the same magic for them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We had gone to fetch water and he told me he had learned a new magic that let him make stones walk on water. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The goddess of magic made a disgusted hiss. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Phiri’s magic had been so strong it had simply rubbed off like poison. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I turned my head to the side so that the revolving rings could work their magic to their full potential. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I have magic, mud-worm. Enough to turn you and your gorilla into pig droppings.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Any magic they used would only lead to less tolerable retribution if they failed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could give you the magic red stone,” Pinmei said without thinking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Of course, the magic dinner goblets would fill with anything you want, but it just didn’t taste the same as a real Coke, straight out of the can. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you use magic against it, it will take it away from you.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I think the money is the best part of it. What will you do with such a fortune?” asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a magic museum,” I say, admiring an antique lacquered box with swords sticking out of its sides. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The golden glow grew brighter and brighter, and then Ilya appeared with his light magic held out in front of him again. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he figured Aphros could travel much faster in the water, and the guy might be able to shut off the magic that let Leo move and breathe. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one knows who the magic belongs to, but it’s stayed all these years, so I’m invisible whenever I’m on Water Island too, and that suits me just fine. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t inconsolable; he was sick with forbidden magic and unable to perform all the Uncle’s duties because he wasn’t as strong as him. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

These were the first magic items my avatar had ever possessed, and they made me feel unstoppable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That magic raft would totally arrive for him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad and I never smiled at each other—not really—but we were still in our magic forty-seven-minute window where the normal rules didn’t apply. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cooking is practically magic to me, and my mom is a wizard. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I am a man of magic now, Big Ben. I could’ve summoned them.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“There’s magic all around, and I can catch it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If having magic makes me a magician and magicians are the enemies of the supernatural world like Elsie suggested...then what's going to happen to me now? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Before she ever brought me here, Gram told me that if there was one thing she believed, it’s that there is magic in the world for those who want to see it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She borrowed some money from Trotter for “school supplies,” and bought a pack of heavy white construction paper and magic markers. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Because you learned the demons’ magic to protect you?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he grew to manhood, he finally took out his magic brush again. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you think all elves can use sound magic?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now that all the magic had drained out of the room, hunger and exhaustion rushed into her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or ten-thousand-year droplets from the magic mountain, giving me my life’s direction and a thousand years of fame and immortality? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newsies always call what we do magic, but Maman said the word is too simple an explanation for the arcana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“This is a robbery. Send two of your party to the top of the cliff with all your valuables. No more than two. Leave the magic horse. No flying. No tricks. Just climb.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Powerful magic to close the tear in the sky.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had never tried to break apart anything as large as these rocks by magic, and now didn’t seem a good moment to try — what if the whole tunnel caved in? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Kaede could not stop staring at her, and she wondered if even the water in those pitchers was somehow thickened with magic, for nothing seemed usual tonight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Well, I didn’t do that well at yeshiva, but copying the passages down in class felt kind of holy, the same kind of magic as the letters appearing on the press. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge crept forward with his baseball bat, eyeing the magic horse suspiciously. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They went through twelve magic doors, until they reached the armoury, and there was all his armour bright and ready. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mostly don’t like to imagine the life I could have had, the one without magic in it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was not certain, but she thought she recognized a thread or two of this other magic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was no time to think about where her magic came from; she needed to know what she could do with it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She fills the syllables of my name with pride, triumph, and magic. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Arguments for belief in magic and witchcraft were largely abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Some magic is interfering...maybe Gaea. Contacting the Romans is even harder. I think they’re shielding themselves.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The puddle of magic, compounded now with fear and surprise and worry for the child that was on the other side of this dangerous stranger, enlarged suddenly into a tidal wave. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, because magic was gone, but the texts said Wyrdmarks existed outside of magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Come on! You need a fairy godmother to work some magic on you, honey.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This was one of the things he couldn’t stand about magic, generally. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“This is very old magic, isn’t it?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I nod and silently thank her for this little bit of magic tonight. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She comes to believe that she imagined the magic of being with Daniel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My fresh love of reading brought me to the transformative writers who have worked their magic on generations of readers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And if magic is real, then I guess curses must be, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her magic felt feeble, as though some river within herself were dry. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“There really are no magic words,” said Dr. Legs. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed easy; but there were flies and mosquitoes, magic ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know that you are not mad. Hogwarts is not a school for mad people. It is a school of magic.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I do not understand. You—you have performed extraordinary magic with that wand.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord’s mind!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“If we attack, she will be able to defend herself with magic,” Grandma said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I bet that stupid magic doesn’t even work. It’s stuff only backwards country people believe.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The true story of Aziz is more interesting than a magic fish anyway, and took place beside a real river called the Aras. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I know I have lost my magic, so I try my very best. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This was why the magic had to be done in front of a mirror, so that the right one could be found by practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hazel knew her mother did believe in some magic. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I traveled to the realm of magic while she was stuck in court. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring the magic square book with me to school on Monday.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gift? You mean magic? Do you think I have one?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike’s chariot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And I can see it's because this girl's long white cane is like a magic wand. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Minli said, “maybe it is magic, like the thread. Try.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“She gifted John a magic ax,” I recited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Right now, there’s something that interests me more than myths or magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“No magic in the corridors. I’ll have to report this, you know!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If that was the price of a magic sword, it was more than he cared to pay. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like she was going to find a gold amulet or a magic ring lying around on the ground amidst popcorn and peanut shells. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew even at that great distance that he wasn’t seeing Xan’s magic, which was green and soft and tenacious, the color and texture of lichen clinging to the lee of the oaks. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There are no magic rugs to fly me to her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In their dark cloaks they were as invisible as if they all had magic rings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It felt like magic, like someone back from the dead. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fire flickers in his eyes like he’s magic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Whenever I thought my parents weren't looking, I'd climb on a chair and pull the cord, just to see the light appear and disappear as if by magic. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They began to quarrel among themselves, about which of them should have him for her magic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered her husband, his green eyes, the magic name of Narciso. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance, and the Muggles’ fear of magic was undoubtedly increased by their dread of what might be lurking in their herb gardens. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the most valuable magic items in my inventory, looted from the hoard of a red dragon I’d slain on Gygax. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Because, she realized, if she was going to be burned at the stake for magic—well, they would be, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

That I would find some special magic inside me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"They say that you can create a person from clay with your arcana, like magic." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The Apprenticeship spell isn’t the kind of thing you’d forget. It’s pretty intense, and it binds you to that magician forever. You two basically share the same magic.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The order in which John liked things in the world was supposed to be magic, sex, money, fun, and love. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were a frosted cake and homemade cone hats, and Mama wore a satiny cape and sparkles on her face and did magic tricks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks of this, by magic or miracle, the concepts took hold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You can make time disappear. You can bring us to places we have never dreamed of. You can make us feel sorrow and joy and peace. You have great magic.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The medicine was rubbed into small incisions made on each knuckle, usually by a magic razor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even her own body was not immune to the magic. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was happening slowly, but there could be no doubt—the Fleece’s magic was seeping into the tree, filling it with new power and expelling the poison. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“On Thursday night, revenge will be ours. Timothy Bartlett shall transform into the Great Timdini! His magic act will crush Ainsley’s cello piece.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently the protections of the treaty were quite strong for those who totally abstained from magic and mischief. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It floated like a magic carpet into the thick September air and settled perfectly ontoListening Rock, as it always did. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Ms. Monica told us the first time we met her, “There just isn’t enough concentrated Black girl magic in this sport.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

And the magic flowed and flowed from the old witch into the new, the way water flows down the mourn tain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“That is a magic string,” Da-Fu said in an awed voice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t me. Everything I’ve done with magic has been a complete accident. I wouldn’t even know how to use a spell.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything about root magic! That’s not how it works!” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They would destroy the magic he felt, the sweet sting of onions in his eyes, the glow of Olanna’s skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If these two busted out the magic swords, things could get ugly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Since Annabeth’s argument with Athena, the cap had lost its magic. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their magic was a different sort than was available to her from sorrow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He yammered about the evidence that dragons had no magic, and Anya listened, her pain about Papa’s absence draining away as the afternoon wore on. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And if Root found out she was running low on magic, she’d be transferred to Traffic for sure. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m starting to feel it. The fool magic! I have water magic and fool magic, Håkon.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was as if she and her aunt shared a particular bond at those times, as if the magic was still, somehow, alive. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the colors and the fairy-tale creatures, the magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If he can make me a dragon, then I can do the same to myself. If I peel my human skin off, I can use magic. I can save you all.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Some people see a magic trick and say, ‘Impossible!’ Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The doctors seem to expect her to work magic on their orders, she said, and the certified nursing assistants resent her place of privilege. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ll what? Stomp your little paws again? Go ahead. The Thicket is gone, remember? Whatever magic was in those thorns burned away when the iron monsters attacked.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The magic remained for them, almost un-bearable to me—the magic of children thrilled to know my daughter had a party. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I can combine the powers I am developing under the guidance of the Sorrows with the shadowshaping magic...the possibilities are almost unimaginable. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh well. Your turn for a plan. You have any strange and wonderful magics from the University? Any dark powers better left alone?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A year later, in the Wall Street Crash, Bobby lost everything he and mother had, with the exception, apparently, of a magic wand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, when she was outside this very strange castle, or when she was not doing that kind of magic to tempt the appetite, she was able to assume more beautiful forms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you,” he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Anya was certain everyone in the village knew Mama used magic, and equally certain that none of them cared. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“She hasn’t been herself all morning. I need you to work some Barry magic on her.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The drive took longer this time as well, and she felt as though the magic were draining out of this night far too quickly. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they had found out, they had been hexed with forbidden magic in order to go along with the Uncles’ schemes when they did not want to. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“With all their magic. It wasn’t an easy victory.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “God cured him. God made the plants and gave them their magic. I just used them.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes your magic will take over for you if you let it,” says Dylan. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“One package, many thoughts. If you have mastered the material, then the proper phrase will conjure it—like the magic words that coax a genie from a bottle. Do you see?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me wonder if the smaller snake in my constellation with Director Horus was actually my own magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I’d rather read the railroad pamphlets, which make homesteading sound as easy as rubbing a magic lamp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And why he stopped me from telling Director Van Helsing about how Maria’s tech magic is capable of shutting down the Bureau’s shields. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Initially there had been nothing but the blindness of hope, as if a magic wand would appear and make his knee pure again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I mustn’t. But if you ever have need of small magic, call on me. You have only to say the words, ‘Lucinda, come to my aid.’” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It emboldened the power surging inside her, directing the swells of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa said you can’t use magic against others here unless they use it on you first. We never caused Muriel any harm, did we?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I do have a little magic, you know. You keep burning through the clothes I give you, so I thought I would weave something less flammable.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So Kin had turned her sword into a bushel of magic arrows and a magic bow, and had taught her everything he’d learned from the Varangians about archery. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Queenie produced, as if by magic, a tin of twenty-five Player’s from deep in the pockets of her greatcoat. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Archaic relics,” the Gran had explained, with the power to absorb magic from other witches and control them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But whatever Father said to me, his meeting with the demon made him look doubly hard through the demons’ papers for signs of the true magic. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people believe something, you can ask them, How does the magic happen? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You don’t use water magic. What kind do you use? Earth? Air?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I kept my hands in my pockets where I’d stashed my only magic defenses—Hermes's multivitamins and Riptide— but the farther we wandered into the resort, the more I forgot about them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At every stop, whether immigration or customs, she alone gave the magic password, for not once did they have to fill out extra forms, not once were their bags opened. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The strip was a less cruel piece of magic than the black cat had been, but more gruesome. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There might be a lot more of them than there were of him, but Harry could tell, by the looks on their faces, that they knew no more magic than the giant squid did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She told Dad once that she sounded young and naive, but I loved the way her paragraphs sounded—the way the botany-speak blended with her excitement and became a secret language with magic words. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have forgotten that she could do magic, too, for she lit the candles clumsily by hand, her trailing lace cuff in constant danger of catching fire. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The filmmaker Georges Melies began his career as a magician and, he owned a theater of magic in Paris. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And I was busy at school, driven by the desire to make mine the magic of letters and numbers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The years of research, the magic symbols, the strange words, and the laboratory equipment . . . none of this had made an impression on the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You ask deep questions, Mr. Potter. Wandlore is a complex and mysterious branch of magic.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Kylie hates jelly beans. And anyway, I told you they were magic, Jackson.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few short months ago, I’d seen it as a magic carpet, carrying me to my dreams. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He’s taking us to a dungeon, right? That human beings use? The passages would have to be clear. Regular people can’t use magic to get through underwater tunnels.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s no such thing as magic,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The beautiful light that streamed into our kitchen in the early evenings, which Mom called “magic hour.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Like you said, it’s not magic. Must be something like our sky turning gray. Some kind of optical illusion or hologram, hiding a doorway. This place is all jacked up.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then as if by magic he did something that turned all my feelings around. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Meantime, I was going to enjoy the magic while I could. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The fairy possesses a weak brand of magic that it may use to deter predators, such as the Augurey. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I decided it was a magic square after all, because it was going to bring my friend and me back together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only section that seemed to be remotely related to magic was the recipe to reverse a glamour, but it was not clear if the curse were a glamour at all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Although it was she alone who saw this magic, she did not wonder at it She knew it was all due to Sula’s return to the Bottom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke as much for her own benefit as for his, for the air here was ripe with magic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boy appeared as if by magic from behind the curtains and led my friend off by the hand, giggling and wiggling his hips like a woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had lost my magic armor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made the most of the last few hours in which they were allowed to do magic before the holidays. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Polly knew at once that it was the Cabby’s wife, fetched out of our world not by any tiresome magic rings, but quickly, simply and sweetly as a bird flies to its nest. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever had happened to the city’s true name, magic was responsible. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So they couldn’t use magic to get away from this thing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Anya and I don’t have any magic. We have these knives, but...’ Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I could only picture the gun, the block tower’s magic destroyed by foreign invasion. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But you use physics in your magic tricks,” I tell him. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Genghis Khan must have invented some magic arrows, then,” I said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they talked there came to them one of the King’s grandsons whose life Jason once had saved, and he told them of Medea’s magic power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she temporarily forgave the midwife her sharpness for the magic of her spells and the miracle of her skills. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath it she was wearing a gold T-shirt with the word magic across the front. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thought of him grabbing Ivan’s water magic and turning it against him, and what Misha had said about him making trees walk. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Naomi could not see the window over the sink from her position, but by dream magic she knew that Henry was there, watching. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were pages floating everywhere, suspended in the air with magic, and twinkle lights cast a soft, warm glow over everything. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mom decided, as she put it, to fight magic with magic. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is a saying on Gont, Weak as woman’s magic, and there is another saying, Wicked as woman’s magic. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like magic to me when I put on the headphones Tsalig handed me and heard the famous trumpeter of Kraków marking the noon hour with his horn, hundreds of miles away. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay...but why didn’t your magic show up on the Crystal Ball like mine did?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But now, I think magic is more like something you have inside of you. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was the first: that he would never see further proof of magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell you why; magic is a peculiar thing, as are the things it touches. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t returned to the Great Library since—and wondered how many of those invaluable works had been ordered destroyed by the King of Adarlan when he outlawed magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That day, Jeremie, I am so happy I drag cane like angel, like superman, I am fast; I am magic; I have wings to work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to do magic in Zmeyreka or in a flooded cave. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The magic square? You had me stumped with the flamingo theater. I was like, what in the world is a—” Emily’s brain caught up with her rambling mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So I roll up my sleeves, wash my hands, and start my magic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It had a picture of an engraving by Albrecht Dürer that had a magic square in it too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was worried, since I had used Emerson's name without his permission, but when I found my way to the personnel office it worked like magic. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spiders seemed to multiply like magic, growing and pulsating into an intangible mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I fold her hand in mine, some kind of magic. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sale of his sheep had left him with enough money in his pouch, and the boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If by some magic the Specials hadn’t noticed the escape so far, the riderless boards had tripped the wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Every time she heard anything to do with magic, her consciousness and her spark and her very soul seemed to simply disappear. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Master’s English was music, but what Ugwu was hearing now, from this woman, was magic. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Chops," Julian said, "is to magic what doing scales is to a chanteuse. Without it you cannot be a magician, with it alone you cannot be an artist." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rootworking and magic has been in this family for over three hundred years. Maybe longer, in some way or another.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ivan’s mother reached one hand out and pulled an invisible thread of magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Shame, girl. I’m talking bout shame. What’s your magic? Why you scared of it?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She belongs to us, but one day her magic will fade and she will wander back into the Bog and we won't have a witch anymore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The old woman advanced through the field, hands up and strumming the threads of magic in the air. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Once you opened your heart to magic, we were taught, you never knew what else you might let inside. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She takes a purse to school and I wonder what sort of magic she does to fit any books into it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“They were. They were all over Pan. You couldn’t hardly see him. She’s doing some magic or summing, I swear. You know the fairies, in stories? Well, they take human children.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Alfhercht gritted his teeth, but he didn’t try his magic again. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some were probably people who had been caught or accused of trying to practice magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“All right. Now the fish. This one might be the best of all. It gives you the power to resist other people’s magic. How cool is that?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Because the girl has learned your magic tricks, Hecate? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Our presence is essential to the magic that protects these walls. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were silvery blue and made her think of whispers and magic, the perfect setting for what Ivy was about to do. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘There’s not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you’re afraid to look at them when you’ve got there.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Each child in the class wore a round circle of blue construction paper on which was written in magic marker: Gr. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as if lifted on a magic carpet, the four of us rose to the upper reaches of the car’s interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once, last year, I had asked Gran to teach me and Jay some root magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And it isn’t about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Did this magic allow her to see the past? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re magic people. We always have been. Remember that ten dollars you found in a book—remember when your cousin sent you five dollars? Nothing can happen to us.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan used his water magic to put the fire out, but by then it was too late. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The only trouble was that the magic powers seemed to be taking a real long time to decide what was going to happen to me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farther he followed us, the farther he would be from the classrooms, where the Colonel and Alaska were working their magic. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hum over the food as if my songs and words will be a protective magic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be instruction that she needed, it would be the magic to come to her hands. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo had come to understand the connection between horology and magic that his father had talked about. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Why not use your magic staff and find out?” replied Tock as clearly as anyone could with an eye dropper in his mouth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her I knew that, that I wasn’t silly enough to think it was actually magic, but I got stuck on the way she said was. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I may not be as strong an illusionist as you are, but it’s still my favorite kind of magic. Painting illusions is sort of my hobby.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The stone door closed and its magic sealed us in. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Please cast a magic spell and come home soon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she could learn a new trade and, just maybe, the old woman could tell her even more about magic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And I remembered that while a traditional magic square always adds up to fifteen, if you use a number twice, or leave one out, you can make a square that adds up to something else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

An army of Sixers stood in front of me, and several different gunter clans surrounded me on all other flanks, brandishing swords and guns and weapons of powerful magic. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As he did every morning, he took a deep breath and stared at the lamp on his desk—a tiny flame that burned night and day, fueled by magic olive oil from the supply room. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I move the magic things aside to dust off the shelf with my hand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Or is he...I’ve just never seen a human being with so much magic before.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

So long as there was magic, anything could happen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It must have been some kind of magic,” the Ladybug said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Hazel’s magic is too good. If I have to fight, I’ll be useless.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I know”—she was getting excited—“it could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

While the conditioner works its magic, we eat the breakfast feast Pop Pop prepared: T-bone steaks, cheese eggs, grits, coffee, and orange juice. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The following Friday, I pack a small bag for Manman—some underwear, toiletries, and her magic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no, Peeta. They work magic. That thing couldn't have died if it tried," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I’d ever seen my parents suffer, and the sight of it frightened me more than any magic ever could. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or choose from the power of the golden carp or the magic of your Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of magic she could work to make herself unseen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I rushed over right after with a couple of my best researchers to have a look at the damage...and there just wasn’t any. The ball was in pristine condition, its magic functioning normally.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The words hummed in the air between them, stronger than any magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, he had noticed, and that’s exactly what he had thought: magic. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Beetle waited outside while the midwife did her magic within. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either the door could only be opened by magic or sheer force was required—neither of which was Leo’s specialty. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris said, “Kids are too smart nowadays. They don’t believe in magic anymore. Except Marly.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why should the daughter of the Queen of Flanders write to a person like that, especially when he had gone and got into a magic boat and sailed away? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the Shiites, there’s magic in the bloodline of the Prophet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If you knew Mama didn’t like magic, why did you leave her with Ma?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The magic staff of kings and lords and wizards and...elves or whatever.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When Lon shook his head, she tried again, “A magic weapon? Like the Executioner?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no you don’t. Stay away from that love magic.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural to feel some curiosity about these things... . Wizards of a certain caliber have always been drawn to that aspect of magic...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Someone is taking my magic. Is it you, old woman?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His eyes reminded me of a description of a gigantic Egyptian eye that was found in one of the pyramids I read about in a book on black magic. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The words, in the reverent tones of his rough voice, sounded like a magic spell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I realized that for most of them, this was the first time they were experiencing the absolute magic of seeing themselves transformed by a story. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It is magic,” said the Wart “Do you think we ought to go up and kiss her, or something frightful like that?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom restarted the video from the beginning, but somehow that yellow brick road had lost some of its magic glow. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Did they even use their magic to find her? I thought that Dobrynya was supposed to be the cleverest man alive!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And I remembered too that whenever white guests came upon the platform he placed his hand upon them as though exercising a powerful magic. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s magic surrounded her like a whirlwind, but Luna could see even from a distance that it was empty at its center. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If she was old enough to be responsible for all her own actions, she was for sure old enough to use magic, right? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The scholars decided that they would fill that child to bursting with magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Seeing the past is simple magic. Seeing the present or the future—that is not.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to it,” they all said in chorus, “if you have a magic staff.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought I told you stories are powerful magic?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“On the bench. Where we met and you gave me the magic square book. I saw a football jacket and some beers, and I think there was a ring of keys.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She did, but some of her magic is fading now that she’s gone.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was the motor that drove the magic universe that was the rear section of the big house on the corner, where Alba spent her first seven years in complete freedom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could have summoned it by magic, but as she hurried back toward the crooked house, Harry knew that she wanted to hide her face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I always thought when Gram talked about magic, she meant fairies and fauns and forest trolls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The magic square? You had me stumped with the flamingo theater. I was like, what in the world is a—” Emily’s brain caught up with her rambling mouth. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few people walking by point and stare, and I wish we had magic beans and rice to make us disappear. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There’s a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I did not believe in magic, in spells, in things that defied logic. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It’s warm at the moment, as it usually is; but there’s a small bit of magic in it, and when it goes cold, I know I’m in danger. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t the hunting magic they serve have been performed just as well out in the open? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

These lucky five will be shown around personally by me, and they will be allowed to see all the secrets and the magic of my factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t tell us you weren’t allowed to use magic outside school,” said Uncle Vernon, a mad gleam dancing in his eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“But I’d be wary of telling the full tale here. Stories are powerful magic. You’ll find that out soon enough. Best only summarize.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s not quite the magic hour, but the spring light is still flawlessly cinematic. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the spell, though it should affect only his own vision and not the magic at work about them, had no power here. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the magic she used to do so was strong, since it was the wizard’s own magic, ancient and powerful, and he could not undo it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The letters glimmered gold, then faded, and she imagined a fairy-tale life in which she and Lazlo worked magic out of a striped market tent and kissed when there were no customers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a different kind of explosion—the sound of Hermes’s magic thermos being opened a little too far. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Goose Fair's literally magic, I thought, sitting there. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wish I could draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make it real. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s better than something magic, but I’m not going to like it?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the world of reflections was different—it was magic. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

How magic they were with only two wheels and that funny door that closed by itself when a passenger sat back in the seat! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A three-by-three magic square adds up to fifteen no matter which way you look—up, down or diagonal. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Leo were a magic horse, he wouldn’t have wanted to live in a stall with an oversized goddess of wisdom staring at him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her mouth dried up at the memory of him almost catching her using magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The magic of the night flashes all around us, but I feel only disappointment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He promised to teach me the magic some other time. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Brother Vu slices it into slippery strips and stews it with seaweed and the magic sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Kendra had seen many fairies fall during the battle, but most had been revived and healed by the magic of their comrades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Except for the magic half hour on Fridays, recess was all that Jesse looked forward to at school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Ames felt that they had blundered on some magic which solved all of their problems. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? I don’t have any magics will get you out of a locked room, boy.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then, by magic, the candle lights by itself. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was small, she’d read stories to me about talking bears and magic wardrobes and take me over to the pond in the park to show me the ducklings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Celia says, though she fears he will ask her how she does her magic, and she dreads having to lie to him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If she keeps making this soup,” Caroline whispered, “I will dip my head into the pot and scald myself blind. That will show her that there’s no magic in it.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Thus, that which gives us the power to work magic sets the limits of that power. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more power and magic in those things in there than in all the rest of the world put together,” the old man said softly. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is a delight for me to read her notebooks from those years, which describe a magic world that no longer exists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The satyrs were playing their pipes in the strawberry fields, making the. plants grow with woodland magic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had been in Hutterite colonies that had come near to that magic number and seen firsthand how things had changed. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been wearing them for a week now, but they seemed to have lost their magic, because no matter how many times I closed my eyes and clicked my heels, I was still in Chicago. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There is enough magic in starlight to content a baby and fill its belly, and in large enough quantities, starlight can awaken the best in that baby’s heart and soul and mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn’t it? The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They simply didn’t have to worry about her magic erupting all over the place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was a magic in living through that chemical poison, and Mom was the first one to realize it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their high cheekbones shimmered with silver fae dust, a magic enhancer, and their long purple hair flowed in shiny waves. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, I suppose, but it was also a precious secret, like a magic trick, where if I tried to explain it, or even talk about it, the thrill and mystery would be gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are other fantasies involving magic powers, impossible wealth, and the ability to sing and dance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The very dust and silence in here seemed to tingle with some secret magic. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It is said that this magic slumber was her doing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think of the magic he could have worked in her room with his voice, a voice that gave a different flavor to every word, made every sentence a melody! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle, or perhaps she’d bested them with her magic like Seven knew she could. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, we know that those people who can make magic with their words, who can make poems and sagas and weave tales, have tasted the mead of poetry. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have no magic beads, no water gourd sight, no rabbit that will jump in the fire when I’m hungry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because the light travels such a long distance, the magic in it is fragile and diffused, stretched into the most delicate of threads. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But being some kind of magic storyteller wasn’t going to be of much use in an iron-monster attack. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

This might be a magic woods, but there was still a north here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there some small magic—a fairy umbrella, something—that would keep me dry?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now she found herself inside the story, which went as follows: Once upon a time, when magic was not questioned and the miraculous showed itself in every dewdrop and moon shadow, there lived a frog. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Early morning is a time of magic in Cannery Row. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to swear on it, and flat refused to study the esoteric texts, which he called “the consolation of would-be wizards cursed to live in a world without magic.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All the magic of dawn had gone now, and in its place was a gray early morning, distinguished only by a summers mist which was sure to burn off soon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bringing people to this rally was magic that had you soaring above trees. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my phone goes off, chirping away over and over, and the magic of the moment floats away like a balloon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The Old-Green-Grasshopper and the Ladybug gave the Earthworm’s tail an enormous tug, and like magic the Earthworm disappeared into the tunnel. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's like saying that come Christmas, a magic dustpan flies in from the North Pole, led by eight flying cinder blocks. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She could smell the scent of night-blooming jasmine and something indefinable — perhaps it was the smell of magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew perfectly well that, as an underage wizard, Harry wasn’t allowed to use magic outside Hogwarts, but they were still apt to blame him for anything that went wrong about the house. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“By the magic hairs of Monkey’s tail, you’ve been living in this smelly, drafty place?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music would flow through the store like a magic carpet inviting me to hop on for a ride. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It is my fondest hope that a new generation of witches and wizards will find in its pages fresh reason to love and protect the incredible beasts with whom we share magic. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the bound-up magic curled inside her, safe and sound for now, she was still the same girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In Old Nan's stories about men who were given magic wishes by a grumkin, you had to be especially careful with the third wish, because it was the last. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The news of the magic paintbrush reached the ears of a new, young judge of the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

All stared openmouthed and shocked as Painter Chen sailed away in the painted boat to the painted land, taking his magic paintbrush with him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How does someone get good at fool magic?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It feels different from my other magic. It’s so heavy.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Just a fairy, his wits, and maybe a touch of magic. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Practicing magic is a sin against God and a violation of the law,” Sir Fabian announced. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sun diluted their magic like bleaching a photograph. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

High-level avatars bragging about some new magic item or artifact they’d obtained. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The magic trick also hints at why technology plays so powerfully to our brains, and our attention systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“First, we went back in time—by accident. Then Trub took me to the realm of magic to find Ma. Then we came home.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then all the magic disappeared from the young woman’s smiling face; he saw nothing but the ardent glance of a passionate young woman. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We couldn’t suffer them to live, not with magic that would set them above us, to conquer us all over again when they grew up. The risk was too great.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Nothing one fairy does to another is big magic, Lady.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would seem that this small crack in the mystery was opened, not so much by the old people’s magic, as by hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they were here, that this magic was for them, that it was real. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Melissa was afraid to move, nervous that a single step could break the magic. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

All I know is I’m going to ride his dream like a magic carpet. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Xan could see the tendrils of magic fluttering behind her like ribbons. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She has no way of knowing what my magic is capable of—not after what I just did. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His head must have stayed back at the theater long after we left, for when the waitress asked for his order, he said, "They must have more trapdoors on that stage than a magic act." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma said magic was leaving the city, but maybe she was wrong. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

By this argument, belief in demonic magic ought not to have declined until there was a general improvement in living standards, and perhaps not until the development of the welfare state. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to learn magic to hurt people. I won’t be like Moreau and those other bad magicians. And you shouldn’t use that stuff either.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you touch it, the magic will pop!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful—most of the time—of her grandmother’s elves. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used my water magic like I did when Sigurd threw us in the river.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now that he came to think of it, he had never heard of a wand performing magic on its own before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She laughed and turned to smile good-by at the magic oleanders. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The main thing to remember is the magic. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Still, he slipped it into one of his tool belt’s magic pockets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A couple minutes later, the magic wears off. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They ran their fingers over the books as if the things were goofered, hopping with magic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d always been sweet to her when she was a little kid: piggyback rides and stupid magic tricks with that cigar-stained hacking laugh of his. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was precisely the way a clever violinist would have used his bow; and the music came pouring out and filled the whole blue sky around them with magic melodies. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember I was at a magic show in the brush arbor and they called me out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

With the proper instruction, his talent for machines translated perfectly to magic tricks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled the tablecloth through the bars of the cell, whoosh, like a magic trick in reverse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

And as if by magic of some kind O-lan was gone, creeping out under the man’s arm as he spoke. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She had it on good authority that even Father Drozdov, who openly preached against magic whenever he could, used it to dust the hymnbooks at the church. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My first and only experience with magic had left me with a sore eye and hands that throbbed from bad medicine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was careless in keeping her new magic secret. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He thought that it might not be so bad with Merlyn, who might be able to make even the old Organon interesting, particularly if he would do some magic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama threw a bedsheet over the whole thing, and like magic, it had become a supper table! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He dashed around to the sliding doors and opened them to reveal the “magic” drawers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She bent all her will into redirecting the magic of the Labyrinth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d been born only a few years after Hazel, and had been locked away in a magic hotel for decades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Lupin said there would be magic we’d never imagined,” Harry said. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I’m a witch, remember? Nobody messes with me—I’ve got magic on my side.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"You are more than a juggler, old friend. You are a true sorcerer. All I ask is that you work your magic awhile longer." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We all stop, as if by magic, at the same time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Vials are filled with ash from the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, and they look like granulated potions, dark glittering magic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The words were not as magic as I had hoped, but the door eventually opened. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But as time passed, the magic faded, leaving behind only a faint memory of its power. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if by magic, sitting on a shelf were containers of hotel shampoo, conditioner, and soap. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I fear that magic must be dark,” he said, “to have done such a thing as erase a name. That has been my only experience of it. Well,” he added, “until the white bird.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve been so focused on finding my brother that I haven’t even given much thought to my magic and how it works. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The fingers that make that magic, I’ve felt them in my palm. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she says, “Yucatecos believe obsidian holds magic. A doorway to bring lost ones together.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Would this magic of yours have anything to do with the message I just got about you dumping a plate of spaghetti on Lara Van Helsing's head?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You killed my family for—for what? For magic powers? That’s ridiculous.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Now, when I reflect on my mother’s words, remembering the way they appeared as if by magic on the screen, one detail stands above the rest: that Mother described my father as bipolar. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Whatever their real nature is, they’re unique among magical creatures because they aren’t limited to one kind of magic. You can find them anywhere, adapting to anything.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Under her breath Juana repeated an ancient magic to guard against such evil, and on top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her kind feed on rootworker magic. Some have even killed us.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This magic will cease to operate the moment that Harry turns seventeen; in other words, at the moment he becomes a man. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She’d given me the roses to give to Mamá and I had failed to deliver them in time, because somewhere along the line they had lost their magic. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just below it is a giant walrus holding a magic wand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the middle was an inscription carved in letters even older than Greek, a language of magic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the magic square didn’t really work. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my stats continued to increase, I honed my avatar’s combat and spell-casting abilities while collecting a wide array of powerful weapons, magic items, and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From her waist cord hung her cornucopia - the magic horn of plenty. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They huddled close together and Gran whispered stories of olden times, before magic had been stamped out and magical creatures driven to extinction. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had no business looking for magic potions. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Holly felt the blue tingle of magic scurrying to her various injuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Seven’s dad wasn’t expecting it but defused the fire with his own stream of calming magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And then, opening her eyes, once again self-possessed, she said, "Perhaps there's a magic word or something." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was just standing there, he said, watching the moon, and then off to the west a column of silhouettes appeared as if by magic at the margin of the jungle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he could still use magic and so would be a better protector than Zvezda. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I waved at the woman on the porch and she waved back, and I watched Sweetie Pie run off to tell her mama about Otis being a magic man. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it is the way of magic and nightmares to choose those almost-but-not-quite moments and wait. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because he has a magic sword that glows with the light ofthe sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Dark magic formed us from animal, bronze, and ghost! We exist to feed on the blood of young men. Now come, give me that kiss!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Kronos had a magic way to span the gap. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The magic feeling of their initial escape from Martha’s Vineyard threaded itself through the days. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“No magic! There must be about a hundred cups in that room. Em no good at Muggle cleaning.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was bent and crumpled, and now that Liz wasn’t talking to me, I wasn’t sure it had any magic anymore. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whip had appeared in his hand like magic, pulled from his belt in the heat of the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wish I could give him the magic hour at Castle Lake when he was a boy with his mom. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We used to wonder how in the world the Gobstopper Factory managed to achieve this magic. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want the demigods under her command to think she was controlling them, or that she’d become a leader because she had some special magic. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I do not know. Sorcery, some dark magic, there was a shadow, a shadow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“She is gone. Can’t you sense it, Son of Poseidon? Some magic is at work. I do not know exactly how or why, but your friend has vanished.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

How strange it was to hear Dorian, son of the man who had banished and outlawed all traces of magic, talking about powerful amulets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We had waited since April for the magic package containing the packets and packets of seeds we were to sell for five cents each, which would entitle us to a new bicycle. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Maybe because of that Ck’o’yo magic we were fooling with. We better send someone to ask our forgiveness.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all, I pretend that this magic hour is the beginning of something, not the end. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“He lets them use magic to kill, but I can’t use mine to grow plants?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Time for me to do some magic on that head.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"When the girl runs around, the beads go clickey-clickety-clickety and that's like a magic spell that heals things. It's like a special hairstyle." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, on Midsummer’s Eve, when our magic is strongest, I went to her home and called to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is always in her hand, like she is some kind of magic Pez meds dispenser. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To seal the crime, frame it with the victim’s curse, close his fate with the magic of naming. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Running down a flight of stairs and then out into the alley, she shouldered the pack and pushed her way through a group of people lined up for a magic show. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What is magic about the speed of light? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, I was just...You know, trying to do some water magic? I got my shoe wet.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She felt an old peace there, and something in the air that smelled like magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks his paintbrush in my direction like it’s a magic wand he’s using against an ogre. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You’re raising my granddaughter to believe in magic? This is what happens when you major in drama.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

It was as if God had at long last granted my wish for that magic pencil. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the old days, five elfin warlocks would form a pentagram around the target and spread a magic shield over it, temporarily stopping time inside the enchanted enclosure. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hermione said such things were illegal, and thought it much more likely that Dumbledore wanted to teach Harry advanced Defensive magic. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her dyedushka was the only one of them who could summon or send the hawk because, like Papa, Dyedka had animal magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

That particular kind of magic—and it was a hex, really—had been outlawed hundreds of years ago. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy should’ve written “Isaiah Dunn and the Never-Ending Tale,” where the notebook has magic powers to keep the story going forever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“It was like being in a magic act,” I said. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

These are people relieved of the burden of having to do magic for a reason—instead these witches and wizards do magic for fun. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“If I disrupt the magic, can you get it back?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was actually touched, but not so much that I was above setting my magic phone onto her desk and ripping off her BlackBerry’s new password. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Her spirit had reinforced the magic borders of the camp, protecting it from monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That spell had been a powerful one, and her whole body was buzzing with magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the third year, the magic doubled again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a sissy, Lamar”—I used the magic word on him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And the magic speed that had made Boobie so spectacular would be gone for sure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo looked around as best he could, and there it was, the six-fingered sword, glittering in the moonlight like lost magic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The people I lived with. It’s them. I know it’s them.They turned weird, started ... doing things. Saying trees and plants and animals are magic. They left me because they said I was ... evil.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If I was a real superhero, I’d have a pocket-sized magic vacuum that would suck up Angel’s words whenever she opens her mouth. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The dinner dishes manipulated like magic tricks, and in the study a click. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked magic, too, like you could make a wish on it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She saw a genteel centaur bearing a princess sidesaddle, and such was the atmosphere of magic that they weren’t out of place here. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had a magic ointment which would make him who rubbed it on his body safe for that day; he could not be harmed by anything. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like magic, she pulled out that map first. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

My grandmother once told me a story about a notorious hunter of wild pigs who used magic to transform himself into a wild boar. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She understood that he was being eaten up alive because for him freedom was even more important than love, and that there were no magic pills that would make him change his mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their recipes could use a bit less magic and more reality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When Jack and Sarah thank him for his magic, he says they have themselves to thank. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gregor watched a gorgeous, gauzy funnel of silk grow up around them as if by magic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before, I’d only seen magic squares with three or four rows and columns, but this book had squares with five, six, and even seven. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s magic was more like a jumble of trinkets left in a basket after a long journey—bits and pieces knocking together. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wondered if her voice was her magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Each toad held a baton, sparkling with the prismatic light of anti-cheating magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had laminated Buford’s tabletop with a magic scroll that projected a pint-sized holographic simulation of Coach Hedge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My wimpy +1 Flaming Sword couldn’t even affect him, and the two magic rubies in his eye sockets had the power to suck out my avatar’s life force and kill me instantly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nike tried to put a golden laurel wreath on Hecate’s head, but the goddess of magic swatted it away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The magic blade sank to its hilt in asphalt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The man waved his mouth organ like a magic wand and pointed it all over the little cardboard city. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But when she spoke Valmiki’s mantra, she felt magic on her tongue, like fizzing Pop Rocks candy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He lived in the details and worked his magic in the context of the moment, mobilizing those forces on the ground more adroitly and with a more deft tactical proficiency than anyone else. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They’d take me aboard their planes and force me to fight, leaving me for dead along the magic battlefields. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

But that little bit of magic is nowhere to be found. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Hand Clap stood there as if he had appeared by magic. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not unless Beth can use her magic to bring Mango back.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I had Riptide in my pocket The magic shield/ wristwatch Tyson had made for me was on my wrist. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It might work like it’s supposed to and take you where you want to go. But we can’t be sure. The island’s magic is obviously unstable. You must rig up your guidance device to navigate.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In five minutes, my carpetbag was packed with a few essentials: Tonic, my magic book, my dictionary, a shawl, and little else. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he was like Doc. A magic man. A witch doctor.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"It burned, yes. There is great healing magic in fire, even your hairless men know that." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We’re too tall for our feet. It’s the only thing we can’t change by magic. Our men stuff their shoes so no one can tell, and we ladies hide them under our skirts.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Rabbits in a hat are magic,” said Robin. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The stranger had depleted almost all but the last remnants of her magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I put the matchbox with the lion picture on it, and the magic burned bones inside, I put it under my pillow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I use the water magic.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A tiny part of me knew it was Buzz’s way of saying thanks for all the checkbook magic I did. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So an entire roomful of children in classroom A suddenly got very smart one year and very dim the next, or more likely, their sixth- grade teacher worked some magic with her pencil. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

More like a bit of magic trying its best approximation of a doorknob. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I could see her because I have a drop or two of magic running in my veins, leftover from long, long ago.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was part of the magic, because everyone believed this protected them from danger. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hugo stuffed his pockets with little magic tricks and cards as he usually did, checked his railroad watch, and knocked on Isabelle’s door. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Uhmma took a sip of the magic drink, then smacked her lips. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And I could no longer see the secret weapons of each piece, the magic within the intersection of each square. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Alfhercht’s panicking face and said, “It took his magic.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And if Luna ever was magic, all that power was now neatly stoppered up and wouldn’t be a problem. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After a while, some people began to talk about how the old man must still have powers to work magic. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"That drum is from a magic store," she said, consoling me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The whites of the eyes she now trained on me were the only place where the cream magic seemed to have worked. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Anya hadn’t even known there was such a thing as sound magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The news had run round the streets like magic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was wrinkled and battered and just as valuable as the magic phone I held next to it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Shows us how it works, then. We want to see some of this magic, don’t we?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But that was a long time ago,” Gram explained, “back in Ireland and England and Germany, before the time when people decided they were afraid of magic.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, while we read Bible stories out loud and watched Miss Rhonda’s teenage son do magic tricks, I thought about that note in my pocket. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

For whatever reason, Mama had chosen not to tell her about magic, but Koffi couldn’t dwell on that now. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be enjoying the novelty of swimming in a magic bubble. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She held the ring up to the pale light and it glimmered with a slow, white, fairy’s fire, and she knew that it was full of magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every incantation, magic, and herbal formula known was brought out, and she got two good nurses and the town’s best doctors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If magic was real, then she could have used it to get better. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’d whisper the powerful words, the phrases dripping in old magic, and shoot off into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A lot of the magic attributed to the People is just superstition. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was a magic to be depended upon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A creature with no interest in magic or rules. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"You go all weekend without logging on or calling me and yet you find time to call him in your continuing attempts to ruin my social life through the magic of song?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there’s some magic perspective inside the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her magic and her thinking and her intention and her hope. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I spun around, more aggravated than angry, and said, “Look, it’s just hair. It’s not magic, so don’t go rubbing it for good luck. Trust me, it hasn’t brought me any.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Annabeth really woven them into the string, or was it some kind of magic? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even her one true magic item, her New York Yankees cap of invisibility, had stopped working, and was still back in her cabin on the Argo II. You've got your intelligence, a voice said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I truly believe that his name has magic even now; the best kind of magic because it comes from true greatness. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want some magic dust?” she asks them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their magic elixir might have ended my quivers and shakes, but a wicked sadness was brewing inside. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They thought they were tracing Beefy’s magic; they never imagined it could be Seven’s because she was a Spare. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She made her own way instead, using a combination of magic and know-how and common sense. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But it would be more big magic.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But you should know that magic has not always been confined to the pages of stories. In another time, it was here, as real as the air we’re breathing.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ama could tell why: she was going to work some further magic with it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He scanned the slips for some sort of magic vessel—a trireme, maybe, or a dragon-headed warship like he’d seen in his dreams. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, we got one demon, shopped at a magic Costco, and made it through the Kingdom of Death....What else does our video game magic want?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a darkened magic lantern show, fantastical and all-embracing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On television, she saw New York City’s spectacular skyline, Las Vegas’s shimmering lights, Disneyland’s magic castle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t magic — it’s logic — a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven’t got an ounce of logic, they’d be stuck in here forever.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She makes a noise like someone seeing a magic trick for the first time. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to fight his magic I concentrated on the sea around me—the source of my power. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We’d always feed my brother orange juice whenever he got the shakes. He called it his magic elixir.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

What kind of magic had that sorcerer gotten good at? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was magic, there was no doubt about that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maial” he yelled, but the magic word seemed to have no effect. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she’d done those nice things to get at me and my magic...she still did them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“When did you learn so much about magic?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Three weeks to solve a mystery, three weeks to complete the task, three weeks to fix this or they’d lose their magic and be Witchlings forever. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what kind of magic can do that,” Lady Meng said, looking up in appreciation. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Blessed with a certain magic at this point, the Cowboys won on a touchdown pass in the final three seconds, 22-18. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan had tried to save them, but he wasn’t as good at magic back then as he was now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Starrett recalled being moved by Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The Bureau uses magical objects, don’t they? So magic can’t be all that bad.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Blue flame is obvious, of course. But I’d hesitate to attribute that to the Chandrian in particular. In some stories it’s a sign of demons. In others it’s fae creatures, or magic of any sort.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The red cup is like magic—I feel like I blend in more. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Threads of magic unwound from the stranger and fluttered toward Luna and her own dense magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But others came between, saying, to stop me, ‘Prince, we can leave him, if you say the word; let him stay here on guard. As for ourselves, show us the way to Kirke’s magic hall.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to see the realm of magic—at least I’m curious about what it’s like. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

And her magic was sharp, and hard, and merciless. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed mesmerized as they watched Crow on a small screen in the front of the cafeteria, the memories of it, the absolute magic of it, suddenly flooding back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This isn’t like the other times my magic has overflowed. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Around in a circle he went, drawing up sapling after sapling, until he made a circle out of knee-high trees, with an invisible bundle of magic in his fist. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was as happy to read the magic books from her Uncle Marcos’s enchanted trunks as she was to contemplate the Liberal Party documents her father kept in his study. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to the ears of a Pickwell kid, it was magic. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We allowed the deer to take his dreams with him so he had all the magic he would need to find the next world. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

With the crickets chirping through the open window, Priscilla “Petey” Willis sat cross-legged on her bed in-the dark of her room, waiting for Finn to appear like some sort of magic trick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Untouched by their magic, the sheep were baa-ing and bleating their fear. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was careful and devious, and I bet you anything he used forbidden magic.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Doc held the box close to his chest and opened the lid, almost as if by magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They seemed to sprout overnight, like magic or science or something in between, and they filled nearly every nook and cranny of the greenhouse, bursting with color, growing fierce and bold and brave. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“She could have got food and everything for herself by magic, couldn’t she?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time, the time he was not watching his mother’s magic or thinking of airplanes, he spent in the idle pursuits of bachelors without work in small towns. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me was angry at Liz for lying, part of me wanted her to come back, and the other part just wanted the magic square book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She becomes pretty so suddenly that it's almost like a magic trick—but it's not like I want her or anything. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That night, after all the clocks had been inspected and cleaned, Hugo opened the magic book. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe the chains prevented her, or some magic about this dark, horrible place. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

True invisibility was impossible, of course: this was mental magic, a kind of fiercely held modesty that could make the spell worker not invisible but simply unnoticed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does he share your...interest in magic? Or does he take after his mother?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She felt awkward and ungainly and grateful for the mask that hid her face, and she felt Sidhean’s magic all around her in a way she had not felt on the day of the hunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It always seemed full of magic with its white columns on the front porch and tall flagpole. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They passed book shops and music stores, hamburger restaurants and cinemas, but nowhere that looked as if it could sell you a magic wand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Since it generally attacks the sleeping, though, its victims rarely have a chance to use any magic against it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did magic there, and feats of alchemy. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If it is not love that will save you this time,” said Voldemort, “you must believe that you have magic that I do not, or else a weapon more powerful than mine?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“This Academy would not be built on iron if it were only a tall tale. Do you realize how much effort—how much magic it took to raise this place?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds over Bushwick have a kind of magic to the them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When it was resolved, when she came back, I wanted the magic square book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, the camp has the ultimate magic climate control. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“This blatant use of high-level magic by incompetent Witchlings is basis for a sentence to the Tombs for these Spares. Either the Witchlings go, or the Gran does. There can be no other alternative.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But for heaven’s sake — you’re wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out — well — anything!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Evidently Kendra had not actually worked magic on the island; she had merely collected an ingredient. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was magic in the way her wrist turned when she held a crayon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve already lost your magic. Smart. What did you find out?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Grover could work that kind of magic with music. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I take the orange and white ticket with the six magic numbers out of Uhmma’s purse. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In my room I opened my magic book to see if it would show me anything about the ball or Char’s thoughts. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Three,” I finished, “is the magic number” I took out my own copy of the Crystal Key and held it up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"That woman has magic powers. She might decide to turn you into something even sillier than a mouse. A cockroach perhaps." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe some magic liquid that would help Mr. Chris not to be sick anymore, but to live forever and forever. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My father carried on his shoulders the large blue-tin trunk which later I learned contained all of Ultima’s earthly possessions, the black dresses and shawls she wore, and the magic of her sweet smelling herbs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Dumbledore’s sister suffered the same fate in reverse: imprisoned for her lack of magic? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Deep down he had the feeling that somehow it would change everything, the way in fairy tales magic was spoiled if you shared the secret. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We knew all this, but Styx was working his magic. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I fled the forest as fast as possible, trying to get away from the giant magic eye. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She could feel the magic of the boots lighting up her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was that magic strung the days all together, like holly berries on a winter garland, into one long, ripe ruby afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Piper needs to find more things to excel at. She won’t have time for magic tricks.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

More staring, smirking, nonverbal communicating, a kind of magic zipping through the air between us. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A magic lantern across the street threw the figures on the sheet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the magic flowed from Xan to Luna, the old woman grew older and older and older. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The only way to use real magic was to have the talent for it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Only last summer he’d gotten an official warning that had stated quite clearly that if the Ministry got wind of any more magic in Privet Drive, Harry would face expulsion from Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But sorcerers were just people who had gotten very good at their gifted magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She kisses me, works some kind of magic until the sense of frustration and sorrow rushes from me and she sinks into my arms. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was associated with deeds of darkness, the Goddess of the Crossways, which were held to be ghostly places of evil magic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit still, precious,” Xan said over and over and over as she tried to get the girl to direct her magic at a single candle. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Why, is something supposed to happen then? Some magic or a miracle?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted to comfort him, but what was she supposed to say to someone who’d had his magic ripped away from him? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Some...features of the world we live in are mirrored in the realm of magic. The beautiful ones, mostly.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Matter fact, how ’bout you whip up some of that Matt Miller magic sauce to go with it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wish it would magic up some comfy pajamas, because that’s how little I feel like going to a Welcome Social. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, I'd just imagine myself living in a moated sugar-cube castle, floating from room to room on a king-size magic carpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had yet to feel the magic warmth of another bubble there. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You can scratch me off the list. I’m going to do the magic act with Siraj and the Great Timdini. They need an assistant.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Other people are born with talents like yours. You’ve heard of them, I’m sure: seers, conjurers, makers of magic weapons. Most legendary figures have some sort of ability that makes them noteworthy. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Especially since last year, I’d spent a week building up my courage to ask the librarian for a book on magic squares, and when I did, she said they didn’t carry books about witchcraft. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprised, he asked Úrsula if all that was true and she answered him that it was, that many years ago the gypsies had brought magic lamps and flying mats to Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Brian I made is him colliding at top speed into a wall of magic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“People round these parts say you all are some kinda magic witches or something. I don’t believe in no witchcraft myself, but I do believe you people are up to no good.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It was like magic. From a distance they looked like a sprinkling of pixie dust or glitter.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw in one of those books they got magic powder that can make you strong and smart and do lots of things. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And he’s got a satyr’s senses and woodland magic. Can you play a tracker’s song yet, Grover?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And just as she sang this, the Master Archer pointed his magic arrows and shot down nine suns which burst open with blood. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good night, then. Thanks for bringing the magic to Magic Waters.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Many of us recognized that a new kind of magic had been invented, and we wanted to be a part of it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As I continued deeper into the tomb, I obtained several magic items along the way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He did not try any more magic, but simply stood there staring at it intently, as though something extremely interesting was written on it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When we got back here, Elsie asked me not to use my magic like that on anyone else, but it wasn’t necessary. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t the same as Luna’s magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Down to the ship Eurylokhos came running to cry alarm, foul magic doomed his men! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said “What does that look like? Is that magic power?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But through his own kind of magic, the stories would always end the same. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But how are they supposed to have ‘stolen’ magic?” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Holly tried to warn him, tried to make some sound, but the magic hadn’t yet reinflated her crushed lungs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m not dying this second, child, but I will in good time. And that time will be soon. Now. Your magic. I can say the word and it stays, yes?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“She was an illusion, and all the tech magic she supposedly performed was actually Dylan here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I say, feeling a little of the magic still in both of us from the morning. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They sat like that, in perfect silence, until whatever magic had filled the air seemed to dissipate and the dying fire turned to glowing orange embers in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s no need to wave a magic wand over the noun soap and transmute it into an adjective just because of what it’s doing in this phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“They don’t want us to think with magic. We’ve got to think about it like any ordinary person would....I’ve got a plan.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Whoever they meet first, be it bug, insect, animal, or tree, that will be the one who gets the full power of their magic! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, even the thrum of magic under her skin began to seem ordinary. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Though magic might have vanished, it seemed that the power that had forged the blade lived on. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The magic worked, too, we may be sure. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would not the magic have been equally effective if the “killing” had been practiced upon less realistic images? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Must we listen to all of this?” another guest asked, waving his cigarette as if it were a magic wand which would make Ignatius disappear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanings inscribed by God in the forms of things, the great chain of being, sympathy and antipathy, natural magic, had been replaced by blind mechanisms and inexorable laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, nobody gave the Night Brothers their magic. They were born magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Nothing remains except for us to vote what support we can give the quest—transportation, money, magic, weapons.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Brooklyn. It’s a magic city and it isn’t real.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother felt as if she were peering into Li T’ieh-kuai’s magic gourd to check the fate of an impish mortal. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not as strong with metal magic as Da is. So he could always pull the threads back from me eventually. I had to surprise him.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe they didn’t even remember how disgusted Emma had been by some of the girls in third grade last year, who went around talking about rainbows and unicorns and butterflies and magic. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost like he was given a special ticket to see a magic world in his dreams, even if he couldn’t remember anything when he woke up. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Of course it wasn’t magic, but simply a way of behaving. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The discovery returned Lawrence to a round-the-clock schedule at the Rad Lab, supervising the bombardment of dozens of elements with his magic bullet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Let’s say the greatest storyteller to ever entertain had infused it with magic somehow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m just amazed. It’s really something special, Nat. A kind of magic. Inside you.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But I know now that there are other kinds of magic in the world. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

From up here, it felt like looking out over a fantasy world, a world wrought by Dwarvish cunning and Elven magic. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Emily finished solving the boy’s magic square it looked like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finally someone up front remembered the magic phrase: “Trick or treat!” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then living things began to work their creative magic and little by little these inert materials became soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

How many other magics were there that she had no idea about? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You can control your magic?” she asks me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The lengthening hours of daylight worked their spring magic on the birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is the last time I shall be able to turn you into anything All the magic for that scut of thing has been used up, and this will be the end of your education. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her moonlace glowed silver, and the other plants responded to the magic, glowing red and yellow and blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The woods aren’t magic, but they still speak: the branches rasping in winter, and the rustling wind. I like the creaking leaves and the birds scuttling their wings.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I told you. There’s always time for magic. By the way—no birds were hurt in the performance of that trick.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I was eating with better appetite than I had had in ages when I noticed that a fourth course had appeared, with unobtrusive magic, at my elbow: mushrooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But there was something else, too...a current of magic that Aru could feel singing through her veins. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Can she really cast magic through this net?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“All that walking, and we hardly got anywhere. Maybe it’s magic. It doesn’t make any bloody sense anyway.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was hard enough being a child of Pluto, but she’d pulled off some serious magic on that cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He makes the best and most subtle martini in the world by a process approximating magic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pretended to congratulate the three brothers upon their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She lifted the body from the noose and sprinkled it with a magic liquid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stats were all completely maxxed out, and I now had a list of spells, inherent powers, and magic items that seemed to scroll on forever. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If only angry tears really did hold magic, I thought. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where I put that magic unpacking wand?” her mom asked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We know of countless later instances of magic which require only the crudest and most schematic kind of representation, such as two crossed sticks for a human figure. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mandy would only use small magic, which was smaller help than I needed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not have the power to steal my magic, boy!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was clear that they were, in fact, something far out of the ordinary, but it was too early to say whether the magic would hold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Newt leaned forward, putting his elbows on the table, as if waiting for a magic trick. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We left Brooklyn because there wasn’t enough magic there, either. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But you can’t magic me out either —” “We don’t need to,” said Ron, jerking his head toward the front seat and grinning. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But would they ever let me show off my magic? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They watched me in silence like I was performing magic. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I felt like my head was popping, the Target magic fading a little. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“It calls to me too sometimes. I couldn’t tell you why, magic is a peculiar thing, as are the things it touches.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Urn, sir, Your Majesty, can’t you gods just pop over there with us? You’ve got the chariots and the magic powers and whatnot.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for your support in there,” I tell Tim, the kid who was doing the piff-piff magic stuff, when we wind up next to each other in the packed hall between classes. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I slip the magic glass into her frozen hand. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

His horse half was comparted into his magic wheelchair, so he used the handicap lift. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Hit the lights, Holly. If those tusks get to work, you’ll be dead before the magic can kick in.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Each time I turned out a new line of text it felt like magic, words forming from slugs of molten lead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I squinted, trying to see the magic I was missing. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tables were jammed together, and to be seated, the waitress employed a kind of magic, pulling one table out and then wedging you in, like a child in a high chair. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were still, as if her voice were magic. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are different roles here in the realm of magic. Sis is a guardian—and she takes her job very seriously. She isn’t angry with you, by the way.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even babies could catch a string of elemental magic and tug on it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was wishing my dad had given me a cool magic item to help on the quest, something as good as Luke’s flying shoes, or Annabeth’s invisible cap. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Luna could feel her mother’s magic—as well as her mother’s longing and love—buzzing against her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“So they turned him into a deformed walrus? I thought they couldn’t use magic against us!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I always wanted there to be magic,” she says. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was magic in the letters, and I had been eager to learn the secret. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides, behind the force that Red and Samuel would lend me in a fight lay the powerful, unknown magic of Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these places where they practice, their potent magic takes on many shapes. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And Ma may be a witch, but we still got lost in time, which means she needs more than magic on her side. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Any knowledge of fairies or magic, of course, must be kept closely to the vest.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t understand how she was supposed to learn magic with no training. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“What if the whole thing, bringing the Nightbeast here, was like a magic accident too, then? It’s hard to believe any witch would go that far just to hurt Spares,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Had he not used that magic he would have been hard put to keep the crank little boat on such a course, on that rough sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hecate offers you obscurity, choices, vague promises of magic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For years they hoarded the words and the magic, growing stronger on it every day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Queen used to say that Christmas snow was magic snow,” Gerald told her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the magic of this place was working just fine. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a thin orange glow in front of the food dish, the last trace of my “magic” powers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“And they still haven’t called a hearing about all the underage magic I used escaping the Death Eaters?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I ran around and got in front of him, holding my hands up as if I was trying to use some kind of magic force to push him back. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The devil’s daughter, in love with the man, gave High John a magic ax and plow to complete the task. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where I put that magic unpacking wand?” her mom asked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had never used her knowledge of magic as a weapon before, and she knew there were proscriptions against it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Right away, as if I’d been touched with a magic wand, I felt like a queen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were three: winged sandals, a magic wallet which would always become the right size for whatever was to be carried in it, and, most important of all, a cap which made the wearer invisible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she could do magic!” said Harry impatiently. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He asked the people “You people want to learn some magic?” and the people said “Yes, we can always use some.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the stories they had chosen from the magic books, which they had to shout into his ear, because also he said that the wind was invading his ears and making him deaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hooked his fingers around a magic thread and walked with it a few paces away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But is it real magic?” she asked, looking at me with her black patent-leather eyes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And she had said that she might have some magic in her blood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Doc gave good advice to the people of our community, and not just about magic or medicine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So this is what it was all about, a new constellation—new life in the universe,” I whispered, overwhelmed by the magic my sisters and I had helped the goddess create. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’d only heard about it from Erastis, who described it in numinous terms, as if the Book were made out of light and magic instead of paper and thread. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

To conquer Spassky and become World Champion, he’d always needed to collect 12½ points, and a win would get him to that magic number. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought something amazing was going to happen when we started to learn about our family magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They were practicing: dark magic. I don’t know what, exactly, but Zeus banished diem to Tartarus.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some might have said that wasn’t smart, that was magic. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every time my magic has overflowed into illusions, he’s been right there. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He could hear the magic words, but he couldn’t see the genie! The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me, how would you show off your magic?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was also very wrong about there not being anything like magic powers or genies or angels. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raced up the stairs before them and at first they were very afraid he was heading for his attic and meant to hide his remaining magic rings. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had the uneasy feeling that we were abandoning them, as if we had the magic ticket and they did not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“For me. I want to see magic. Big magic.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I decide to just enjoy it since in a matter of hours I surely won’t be magic anymore. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And it even talked about how magic squares were used as talismans to protect you from harm. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I told you no more of that Underworld magic.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A school bus is a magic show full of disappearing acts. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

MidPass should’ve been a peaceful place, somewhere you could play, grow up, sing, dance, and let the magic of the world carry you along. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through the use of black magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only one member of his audience seemed immune to the magic of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I found Aech’s sword a minute later and added it to my inventory, but it took me another five minutes of searching before I found Art3mis’s magic sneakers, near the south end of the crater. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the end, he substituted a magic cooking pot for the bus that carried them to Resthaven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like a lot of boys I knew, I often wished that some of Cade Hernandez’s wrong magic would rub off on me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was full of our family’s magic, made by our own hands with love and intent. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it used to be blue—a brilliant, magic kind of blue. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that to be a dragon meant more than just taking an interest in the magic of machines. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gown and this night were the last she could ask of Sidhean; his magic was impatient for payment. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The camp has magic borders. Nothing, not even weather, is allowed in without permission. It could be a land without rain.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dudley gently released himself from his mother’s clutches and walked toward Harry, who had to repress an urge to threaten him with magic. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mama used her plant magic to coax delicious, sweet onions out of the earth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It may well be that the Magdalenians practiced their fertility magic in the bowels of the earth because they thought of the earth itself as a living thing from whose womb all other life springs. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru waited for her perception to change, for magic to prickle on the outside of her vision like television static. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was magic powers that let you know she was just being Momma. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being so young in your magic, you wouldn’t know this, but there are ways to make truths spill from lips like water from a fountain.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Maxie had some magic control over the weather, the ability to protect herself but dump on me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magic was on his side, the magic explained and gave orders. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe there’s also a little magic in cooking, taking all the plain old ingredients and turning them into comfort and memory. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The Moor’s slaves—in other words the chorus—had taken up their song a bar too soon and this had nullified the simple rhythm of the magic bells. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

While One Hundred Years of Solitude swept me up in its magic and its images, its intricacies and its breadth, Jane Eyre made my heart swell. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to bed. Get over whatever problem you have with Misha and figure out how to keep the Nightingale from stealing Ivan’s magic. Or else...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Thalia was rubbing her silver bracelet, her favorite magic item. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hedge’s nature magic had brought him back from the brink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Would the magic of Ultima be stronger than all the powers of the saints and the Holy Mother Church? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month, maybe two, and the families with their out-of-state plates and minivans that were a tick too nice for the parking lot would disappear like a magic trick. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Glerk looked even closer, at the threads of the magic—each individual strand. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I believe that. But you won’t be with me at home. Just my parents and my sisters. They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it’s not.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She put on her Yankees baseball cap, which was a magic gift from her mom, and instantly vanished. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Hazel had insisted on taking the wheel to guide them through the secret pass that the magic goddess had told her about. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She found bits and pieces of magic in the gaps of the world and squirreled them away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She then told this one story about how she heard there was a sorority that made the new girls stand in their underwear while they circled their “fat” in red magic markers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They played Exploding Snap, set off the very last of Fred and George’s Filibuster fireworks, and practiced Disarming each other by magic. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of magic in his movements. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course if he’d still had his magic, he could have just wished the scorched digits better. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I tried to use some earth magic, and all I did was throw dirt in a zmeyok’s face. I can’t even see threads most of the time.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

"His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Nowadays, people are too cynical and don’t believe in magic anymore,” Abuelita Remedios said as she drove us down the road. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you hear that? It’s your song, child. The magic in your blood, it sings such a strong melody. Can you hear my magic as well?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

‘I wish I had never come here, and I don’t want to see no more magic,’ he said and fell silent. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“What kind of magic items? Do I get one?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Today in class he announced we’d continue working with magnets—apparently otherwise known as “natural magic!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if I had said the magic words. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon I was distracted as the girls gathered around to watch our driver do a magic trick with a disappearing pebble. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Joseph turned back to the dining room, his uncle had vanished, like a magic trick. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But Gran told me that all magic creatures were driven into extinction!’ said Ivy. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then again, Muriel could possibly use magic to catch up with her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

William Lombardy, disagreed, however: “Yes, Fischer betrayed chess and everybody. But he’s still magic, and can do a lot for the game. Bobby and Boris are finally cashing in. I don’t begrudge them that.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A magic potion in all of its bittersweetness, helping him remember too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had fined people for open magic use, but only if he could prove it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Above him, nighthawks fluttered jaggedly, uttering their deep resonant beeps; a touch of sensual peace and magic lay like a mist across the sagebrush and snakeweed mesa. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the bribe had been anything but a magic square math book, it would have been so easy to refuse. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside and on the way home, the people played in their magic, as children poke in mud pies, reluctant to tell themselves that the game was over. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exchanged the Wii controller for a screwdriver from his magic tool belt and tapped the statue’s pedestal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like magic, four names and addresses appeared, then disappeared. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“That is when you can truly appreciate its magic.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They grew too tall, too old to spend their time on fantasies—to believe that the plane held any magic. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was magic going on here—really powerful Mist. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She felt silly pointing at the water, but she was certain it was working some sort of magic, swaying their feelings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t felt even a trace of magic since the night of the fire, she didn’t trust herself to figure out anything here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ilya looked like he was going to use his magic anyway, lifting his glowing hands into the air. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never dared hope to know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There’s no magic about her that I can see, or any abnormality. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If it did, all of the hidden traps I’d disarmed would reset themselves, and the treasure and magic items would reappear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And yet even as a nine-year-old I had begun to practice the magic of stories. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re both going to have to remember that when we start learning root magic.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s because you’re supposed to be the best at magic!” shot back Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Foreigners call it magic, my people call it the splendor. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were many people who lost their fortunes when magic vanished. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“The preserves are protected by powerful magic. But I lend an ear to the news all the same. Rarely hurts to be cautious.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You used earth magic, right? Use it again right now.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m still not sure how the Weaver created this magic, but what I do know is the world listens to you. And you listen to it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“By chance, have you been using any magic above your proficiency level?” asked the Town Uncle. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

So I told her about the Cobalt Blue Orchid, about the science and its magic. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to know everything she knew about magic squares. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if by magic, Uncle was suddenly at his side. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magic veneer had faded, leaving only broken walls and excavation pits. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Like this one does. The sorcerer collects magic. Alfhercht has one the sorcerer doesn’t: sound magic. Your friend does as well.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yeah, getting that wig cap over my head was a pretty impressive magic trick. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Unbelievably at first, my ankle swiveled fine, cured, like magic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She also told them Luna was allergic to magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Not much doubt anymore— somehow the Grievers can leave the Maze this way. Looks like magic, but so does the sun disappearing.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

With April, a walk to the library could become an exploration of a forbidden land, or a shiny pebble on the sidewalk could be a magic token from an invisible power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe loves theatricality of any kind—all the magic and illusion that can be created onstage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I want to learn magic," Bran told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

However that might be, it was proved later that there was still magic in its wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We adored our shows and didn’t understand how wrestlers with funny names and a little boy with a magic pencil were so bad. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had enough of that,” she said, “If they like that magic so much let them live off it.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, a Story Box is a vessel for the magic of stories, right? It holds it, ready to bring them to life, much as an Anansesem would, only on a larger and grander scale.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was packing as many magic items and as much firepower as I could squeeze into my inventory. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The entire planet of Frobozz was in a PvP zone, and both magic and technology functioned here, which meant that all bets were off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t tell me he used water magic.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You mean, you’ll teach me everything? About magic, and how to use it?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

So far, all the sound magic had hit the ground eventually. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The story goes that they’re devotees of some shrine up there—some kinda ancient magic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If I do a stupid magic trick with him at the talent show, it will just remind everybody about why I was disqualified and why I had my blue ribbon ripped away. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Sierra started pacing across her room. “So it would have to be someone who could shadowshape...and how does one get this binding magic?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry. But trust me...the time may come when you will be very glad you saved Pettigrew’s life.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’d been expecting a magic trick, but what I heard had the ring of the supernatural. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“There are certain rituals every fairy must complete to renew his magic,” explained Artemis. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn’t have helped him today. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya still didn’t have the ability to see the threads that were the key to performing magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He wanted Teresa to make him feel better, say something magic to make the pain go away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

From here, I can also see that the Florida sun is already working its magic on him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But when they worked together, something magic happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Nothing is small magic in a moment like this. Go!” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I met her she was being deported, but then she met with you and you did your lawyer magic, and now she’s going to stay.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I could ruin the magic around us, but I had to ask him what Cecile wouldn’t tell me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her magic blesses us and all that we see. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She threw up her arms dramatically and tilted her face toward the sky, trying to pull as much magic into the level-four spell as possible. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“His mother left upon him the traces of her sacrifice. This is old magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it. . . but no matter. I can touch him now.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If the kids at Mason Junior High could see me now, they wouldn’t believe the magic that was right in front of me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded and said, “I’m old and blind, but I still hear things. A fool never prospers in peace. Do you know what their magic is?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Since she had not yet used magic, Grandma said it would be a mistake for her to start now. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He described the wondrous feats of magic Lon could achieve if he joined them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt, in his arms, the way she had in his mind: exquisite, and all he knew was gladness and second chances and the magic of possibility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You saying people think I got the black magic?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her wellsprings of magic depleting by the second. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Your magic doesn’t work! You promised me power, but I was beaten in Dowa!” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s the magic,” blurted Foaly, words barely decipherable in his excitement. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

To me, there was magic in the learning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course not,” said Harry, eager to see more magic. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Satyrs brought their reed pipes and played nature magic songs, and for a while the pine needles seemed to get fuller. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But during the war the Roxbury “wire” had carried a lot about things I was doing in Harlem, and now the New York name magic was on me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they said Hazel was the one who thought too much about magic. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of snowfall that, if there were any magic to be had in the world, would make it come out. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She opened a box and held up a glowing ball—no, not a baby sun but a magic peach, the peach of everlasting life! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that things work differently in the Great Wood. That people get lost, even if they have a map. That magic goes awry there; rituals go bad. That sort of thing.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gently sets my magic link to Lita inside a plastic pouch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By then it was falling apart with her tears, and the magic letters were stained and faded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then let me do my magic on these elbows," Candace commanded. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Cora had told Royal about the attic days in North Carolina, but seeing the year on the cover—an object conjured from the future—spurred Cora to her own magic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even now, she could feel the magic pulsing under her skin, each filament insinuating itself between cells, through tissues, filling up her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Using magic was like playing a gusli: anyone could pick up the instrument and strum the strings, but only a talented or trained bard could make real music with it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It looks like they might do a magic trick, Dr. Martin hidden behind the sheet with her black bag in her hands. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the midst of this misery Schindler had performed his magic. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The perfect prison door. Only water magic can get past it.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘Ah, child of Pluto! Your magic helped you cheat in this contest, but you cannot cheat destiny. One of you will die. One of you must die!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The order in which I was supposed to prefer these qualities was magic, love, fun, sex, and money. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s a rare magic. You can do evil things with a magic like that.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The more magic she gathers, the more magic will spill out.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘Shadow-travel is magic. Several of my followers are daughters of Hecate. It was a simple enough matter for them to pull you off course, especially since you and I share a connection.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I see your old grandmother passed on her magic.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the eerie glow of their magic weapons, his friends looked like flickering ghosts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember how I told you I got that magic dagger that would kill only if I wanted it to?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the first floor of the tower there was the furnace which kept the magic water hot. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like I was wearing a pair of gloves with magic properties. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she shot at it with magic, Thorn might die; if she did nothing, Thorn would die. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mama’s voice was so quiet and thin that to Anya it seemed as brittle as the magic from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Both of us could conceal ourselves well enough without the Cloak, the true magic of which, of course, is that it can be used to protect and shield others as well as its owner. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had tried to explain the magic to her, once upon a time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her voice was magic, like a lilting silver flute or something. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, he didn’t trust magic in general. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Up or down the wet or dusty streets, indoors or out, the days and nights began to spell out magic possibilities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me magicians have the power to control computers with their magic?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“A magic trick,” Lazlo had said, when it had seemed to grow with the lifting of the lid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His kiss is feather-light, and there is a kind of beautiful and bittersweet magic in it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There are whispers that without Lucera, the murals that are touched with shadowshaper magic will eventually fade and the connection to the spirits will be obliterated. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A large rock is not the kind of enemy you can fight with a magic sword. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was just the magic that had happened to him during his sleep and the Om in him —he loved everything, he was full of joyous love towards everything that he saw. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he’d cleaned up when I saw him on Olympus, or used magic to make his form seem a little less hideous. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"If I had magic powers, why would I hunt crows for breakfast?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had hoped the statue’s magic aura would keep away the little spiders, but Arachne continued shrieking, imploring them to help. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Xan could remove it with magic, bit by bit, but it was tricky work. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe the movie was magic, somehow doing what I’d never been able to do for myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There needs to be some magic, there needs to be some conflict. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was because his magic firewood lifeline was safely stashed away in a flameproof pouch, or maybe it was because he’d commanded a zombie legion and been promoted to praetor. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Who could sleep knowing that some magic man is coming to bring you presents? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It felt to Joe like a transformation, as if some kind of magic had come over him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, maybe not. Or maybe I’d cause a flood and people would be killed. That’s the problem with big magic. I only do little magic. Good cooking, my curing soup, my Tonic.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the magic was all based on lies. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you. It is very kind of you, but really, we must be off. We have some magic to attend to in Cornwall.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. Only let me sing this time. You say the magic words.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like Dad’s and Trey’s skin tones are a magic reflector. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And there was something about the carved perfection of her face that made her smile seem like magic—an enchanted ivory princess warming suddenly to life. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had some unknown magic drawn Hermione to this spot, or was the doe, which he had taken to be a Patronus, some kind of guardian of the pool? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The magic was dusty and brittle, and if she put too much pressure on it, it would snap. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s like magic here,” she said, “an enchanted forest where anything can happen.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the general view, constantly reiterated like a magic spell, was that they were safely asleep somewhere in the park. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he flicks his hand, miming a magic wand. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was part of their magic, she said, that they appeared different to different people. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was something magic in their large and perfect eyes, something that made you want to pay attention to whatever they said, to protect them from any danger, to make them happy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Apparently, I've uttered the magic words, because Tiny takes a deep breath before he starts talking, as if—fancy this—he has a lot to say. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Now get out of here, and don’t come back until you’re full to the tips of your ears with magic!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The coins in my caged fist rattled like magic bullets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the road, and the other car was there—like magic,”’ says Dr. Atchley. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was a magic paper,” Pinmei said, but most of the despair had left her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If that is magic, it is minor magic, on the order of card tricks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

From that time on they were so busy playing around with that Ck’o’yo magic they neglected the mother corn altar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Don't forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A column of water shot out of the stream, and Ivan yanked his magic threads with the magic metal on the ends of his staff. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Styx came to us like magic—the really, really powerful kind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But if Marsha Jean succeeds in stealing the magic globe, then Florence will be flying through darkness and won’t see anything at all, and how will she help people then?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’d found my connection to my family, my people, and my magic. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had learned about magic squares when she hunted Shakespeare’s Secret in Colorado. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The Sleeper will be watching for any signs of magic. We need additional protection to get you to the Night Bazaar, where the second key lies.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lazlo couldn't fathom it, that a goddess would be willing to give up her magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The baby, full to bursting with magic, was a bit like a sleeping volcano—internal energy and heat and power can build over time, and erupt without warning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish there was some way we could just magic VanQuish home,” I say. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were going around and knocking on everyone’s doors—whether they did magic or not. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had partaken of the arts—road companies of plays and even operas, with their magic and promise of an aromatic world outside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He told her that he knew Alice from the Through the Looking Glass book and that, like Alice, he could enter the magic world of reflections . Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And when he’d skin a knee or bump his head, if I was around he would not stop crying until I bestowed a magic kiss on the injury, after which he’d miraculously recover. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I have stepped between the magic gateposts, will I find myself through the protective barrier, the spell broken? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It works, though, and like magic the nervousness melts away from Stella’s face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If me and Jamie keep looking at each other with sparks and electricity and magic, there won’t be any turning back. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It feels like magic,” Anya said with that same eerie smile. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Second, there is the decline of belief in magic and witchcraft, already hinted at in Lafeu’s speech, if we take ‘modern’ to mean something more than just ‘ordinary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gram always said that there was magic in the world for those who cared to see it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"It's a good-luck story, about a lady who almost lost her arm, but a girl saved it because she had thirty magic beads." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Secondly, Thomas held that individuals were identified as practising witchcraft and demonic magic as a result of social tensions, particularly with regard to the distribution of charity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. This island is hidden, cut off from the world by strong magic. Time doesn’t even flow the same here.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was a perfectly torn hole where the word magic had been. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"Just something I have to live with. Meanwhile, everyone's interested in finding out how the magic happens." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be interested to learn that humans can use their magic against them,” Char said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there was too much magic in this new place for her to question it. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“When Lucinda cast the spell on me, was that big magic?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Xan closed her eyes and pressed her feet to the ground and felt the magic flow through her fragile bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Not thinking about that right now. I’m just basking in that New York magic.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was not what I expected magic to be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When you believe in your own ability to do something, even something scary, it gives you an almost magic power. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Just stand up,” he said, lifting his hands, palms up, as though he had the power to make us rise by magic. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yep, if I believed in magic, in ghosts, then I think maybe I was rising on the shoulders of my dead grandmother and Eugene, my dad’s best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He collapses his magic props and stuffs them back into his blazer pockets. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

My father knew a lot about witchcraft, but he had no place for magic in his own life. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stay close to Ma, praying for magic before we reach our destination. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The clue was a partially finished magic square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But even though the king had banned magic, most knew the truth: within a month of his proclamation, magic had completely and utterly disappeared of its own accord. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I remember the day we all played together for the first time, the magic that lives in the four of us together. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A magic raft had carried me back to camp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He texts her back, and we hurry into the magic that is Graeter’s Ice Cream. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

His head twisted involuntarily as his vertebrae slid into their niches, and strength returned in a rush as magic reproduced the three liters of blood lost through his chest wound. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

That tier of magic was so far advanced that even Master Illuminators rarely attempted it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The magic blade cut a gash in the bronze. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Watching the Warrens live was like watching a magic trick, as miraculous as transforming an empty soda can into a silver pitcher, or pulling a steaming pie from a silk top hat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“About what? About Freud? The one time I mentioned a Freudian theory in class, all I got out of Appleman was that dogmatic psychoanalysis was related to psychology as magic was related to science. ‘ The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then as autumn came they set to their tasks afresh, practicing new magic. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The audience leaned forward, eager to learn how this magic was going to be performed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I first see it, in my mind I place a circle of magic around the corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a single night, as if by magic, beautifully pruned gardens and flowerbeds appeared on the avenues; they had been planted by the unemployed, to create the illusion of a peaceful spring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But magic alone cannot defeat me, and you do not have sufficient strength. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One time, I asked if someone were to wave a magic wand and make him all better, would he become, in time, the man he had been before? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree’s magic still protected the borders of camp, but it no longer used Thalia’s spirit for power. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph was definitely uneasy about pagan magic, but he was too interested in the story to object. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to work my magic. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The world beyond Earth had always been a mysterious place, silent, dark, and cold, the realm of magic and gods. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Lovelier than you know, sweet child. It's magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His feet are magic and we all try to slide across the floor like he does, our own feet, again and again, betraying us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had been the first time she’d learned that magic was real, that it was something she had and something that could change her life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And, she wondered darkly, how could their power possibly still work when magic itself was gone? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Because that’s one mean human. I think he has magic of his own.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“There will be plenty of time for magic. I promise. Right after March fifteenth!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He’d go back to sleep and let the aspirin work its magic. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Xan remembered enough from the magicians who raised her long ago that rearing a magic baby is no easy matter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Bobby,” he said, frowning, “do you really think my family disappeared by some magic trick?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was close enough to touch Styx’s magic. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The Mist is really thick there because the Mountain of Despair is so near. Titan magic—what’s left of it—still lingers. Monsters are attracted to that area like you wouldn’t believe.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Hecate mentioned a formidable enemy in the House of Hades—a witch who couldn’t be defeated except by me, using magic.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Somehow she knew: this white stuff was pure magic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Wielaf said, “He says it has to see him work the magic. If he waits for it to turn...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What did I bring on those poor, innocent people? How could I have done big magic? And so carelessly!” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perfect magic hetero dream family: mom, dad, two girls, and a boy. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was losing control of the magic maze. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds: some more potent and some less. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Right after you was born. He must be a magician, because as soon as he heard the magic words 'birth defect,' he disappeared." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew now why learning my family’s magic was so important. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“A man like that shouldn’t have a sword at all, let alone a magic one. So I said no. Sent him away.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now, on their own, the boots are like any bit of magic—neither good nor bad. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted you to think they were magic. But there’s no such thing. Of course.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was magic at work, and it was a magic mightier than anything Loki could control. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Other people think we have magic powers, which is what's important," Rani says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“We need some magic, like that lump of wood you shoved into the river.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ivan trudged forward, moving his arms through the magic like he was treading the water that slowly filled the bubble. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We were going to take some of your sister’s magic stuff and make a love potion for Kimberly!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She did not know the spells or the magic, so gave Joan all she had of care and courtesy and hard work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first: that he would never see proof of magic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And yet, this was a place of spirit and magic. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A surge of jealousy roiled Anya’s belly—she still didn’t have any magic, water or otherwise—but she managed to smile. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sorcery, or black magic, was the Haitians’ way of explaining suffering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Beech- wood’s magic never carried over into our everyday lives. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“But what about the fairy part? Like magic, I mean? Is that real?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“If this is a magic island,” Piper grumbled, “why couldn’t it be a nice magic island?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The magic of this land only imperfectly captured the magic of the dragons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dual zones permitted the use of both magic and technology, and null zones didn’t allow either. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had been studying the book very closely and had learned how to do just about every magic trick it talked about. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then, pointing to her luscious red hair, which was in a high, bouncy ponytail, the kind I could never pull off, she said, “Do you think all this magic happens without some serious tools?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Just like Painter Chen and his magic paintbrush. It needed the skill of a master.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She tried to iron the flyer flat over her bag of magic, but the creases wouldn’t straighten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Like magic, these things would get to be special at least for a day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe after long enough, that magic wand of confidence will mistake me for them, and give me a bop on the head, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to know how Pasiphaë planned to “deal” with them, or how the giant kept her magic in check. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then she was able to find more magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Commit it to memory. It’s a magic rock.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now it entered Helen’s mind to drop into the wine that they were drinking an anodyne, mild magic of forgetfulness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Uncle had simply ripped the magic off them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

For as much trouble as it’s caused me, I’m so curious to know what kinds of things I can do with my magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat a couple of times, thinking maybe the sound magic would float by him and he’d see it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He could feel the pulse and undulation of those great waves of magic, surging inside the child, never finding their way to shore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They quivered as I approached, then parted like magic. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maddie hugged her knees, reeling with the magic and menace of that stolen flight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes! I have made two thousand seven hundred and forty-one magic swords,” Tyson said proudly, showing me the newest blade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He could do magic she couldn’t even dream of. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The barest trace of magic stirred the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Had the ymbrynes turned human again and worked their magic on us? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

No one at my high school knew much about Iran and mostly associated my culture with terrorism and magic carpets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was her new, more powerful magic talking, but Seven had never remembered a more beautiful spring in Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

An entry from his journal appeared in my magic book the night he left for Ayortha. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was very wary of the magic in the wires. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Vetch had been three years at the School, and soon would be made sorcerer; he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’d been a time when magic had existed in this city, when people had been able to use it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a very little bit of magic,” Vivi says reasonably, but it’s still coming from someone with lightly furred points on her ears and eyes that flash gold in the dark. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anya didn’t know much about magic, and she wasn’t sure if ignoring an inborn gift meant another type would get stronger. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If the seams in the Adams-Jefferson collaboration were the source of its magic, the Jefferson-Madison alliance was seamless, and therefore less magical than smoothly and silently effective. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Can I tell you something? You have such wonderful, strong magic. I can feel it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Usually that was enough to remind the people that magic still lurked in half-forgotten places. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t know any magic yet — what on earth would he have to do? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s not...it’s not magic. It’s just that I can...I can hear the dinos. Like, in my head? And, when I think...they do what I tell them. Mostly.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was so proud of being her granddaughter and sure that some of her magic must have come down to me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is part of the magic of language that some people can get to the same place by the use of totally different words. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eat five magic mushrooms and drink a tall glass of water and they bloom in your belly like fog-colored sponges. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe they think rootwork and other magics like it are old-fashioned and only for uneducated people.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s collapsing the magic barriers around Manhattan—cutting off just the building, and us.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The reality of her words filtered through, and the tingly magic of what had just happened between us numbed out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But whatever magic made them does not last. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘It’s sports medicine with a little nature magic,’ said the coach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I see the object must be the size and shape of a magic wand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Peregrine was not just the oldest person in our village, she had a special wisdom for healing, midwifery, and ancient magic. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In Greek mythology the sorceress Medea, enraged at being supplanted by a rival for the affections of her husband Jason, presented the new bride with a robe possessing magic properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the time he said this, his own boat would already be starting to surge, as if by magic. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The maiden, who was named Medea, knew how to work very powerful magic, and could undoubtedly save the Argonauts if she would use her dark knowledge for them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These partisans may have been involved in some dark forest magic, but they should not have been tinkering with the higher magic of radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Enrique is struck by the magic of the train—its power and its ability to take him to his mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been able to figure out what magic my brother cast to make someone like her stay with him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Most times, it’s enough to interrupt someone’s magic. I was hoping it would break the hex and give me time to pull you out.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rather than insisting that there was no such thing as magic, they began to merely suggest that perhaps magic was not as prevalent as it once was. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, most important of all,” added the Mathemagician, “here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And always, there was the magic of learning things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, even if it’s like Joe said, it’s magic all the same, isn’t it?” she asked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Durham! and as if by magic, everything springs into new life, the veins and arteries of business throw off their stagnation and the bright sun of prosperity sends its radiant beams out upon the world... The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I am to go toe-to-toe with witches using forbidden magic, I’m going to need it.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Doors of wood, doors of iron, doors of air and magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were in a magic world of gems, a glade under trees whose leaves were jewels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rumors of the Buddha sounded attractive; there was magic in these reports. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Magic,” said Mack, “just pure magic. Can you fix it?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fish-horse magic, I guess. I remember the green guy touching my head with the point of a dagger. Then I could breathe.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And so I have never forgotten the torment of my dearest friend. And whenever the Devil leads poor sinners astray with black magic and false saints, I rescue them from their error.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sigurd could manipulate magic threads with his sword. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As long as he didn’t leave spots of ink on the sheets, the Dursleys need never know that he was studying magic by night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her magic had been dwindling for years, but there was no denying that it was happening more quickly now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s full of magic antiblast gas — guaranteed to save your bone marrow. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am wearing my necklace of rowan berries, but they are no protection against the magic of the geas. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Some of the people are saying the Eight Sages took you away to teach you magic,” said a little girl cousin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people at this particular meeting didn’t believe in Mojo, for its magic, like everything else in Odessa, had never extended across the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is on TV flying around in blue fairy dust, waving a magical wand in a cute sparkly outfit’ ” The magic of Disneyland had won Fern over to Vonetta’s side. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if their magic coursed through their hands, enveloping them in a warm glow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He uses magic to fly to your dyedushka, and to fly back to me. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She wanted to believe that she had left it there and forgotten about it — not that it had been placed there by any fairy magic. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In England scientists and clergymen still inhabited a common culture, and there was no division between them when it came to belief or disbelief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Well, Rick thought, in real life no such magic bells exist that make your enemy effortlessly disappear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And you look so much better! Your magic does work!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Then I’m going to have to take your magic.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But in concocting the elixir the Fairy Queen described and giving it to the fairies, she would certainly be performing magic. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He could have used his sound magic to blow up buildings or kill people. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have no magic power to help you, I cried back. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was some sort of magic Thorn had infused in them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Leneus, we need Grover. There’s got to be a way you can find him with your magic” The old satyrs eye twitched. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A poem and a magic trick performed by two hateful groupies just ain’t worth my time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had the magic of growth in his hands and he passed it into the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes tight and tried to send a flood of magic into her legs to give them a little more speed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The magician had tapped the wand three times and was about to say “Abracadabra!” or whatever Clayton imagined magicians say as they pulled off their magic trick. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was an odd thought, the idea of some strange magic coursing through her veins. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m chanting to myself, “Magic thread, magic thread,” and I’m staring at Mom so hard that my eyes are almost aching. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mandy lived with us as cook and godmother of our children—and secret performer of small magic to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now suddenly, the whole place, the whole garden, seemed to be alive with magic. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had been transported by the magic of these players, I had no thought in the world that I could become one of them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The two embraced with much joy, and Acoynapa explained about the magic powers of the staff. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“So you must know loads of magic already.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Ma’see’wi and Ou’yu’ye’wi the twin brothers were caring for the mother corn altar, but they got interested in this magic too. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

To discover what eluded me: the secret of the magic they weaved on others. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So are you really doing those magic tricks? I love you, but those were pretty sketch.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The tree was thought to be a magic one, which was the reason why such a lot of traffic went on round it “Lady,” said he, “do you know of any adventures in this forest?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the same room in which he had once been interrogated for improper use of magic. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

An adult could only use magic, but a child, the theory went, could become magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A magic cloak had gone the rounds, which only a faithful wife could wear—or perhaps it was a magic horn which only a faithful wife could drink from. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this is how the Governor got his magic. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Her nails are short and polish-free, the magic fingers connected to the hands connected to the forearms roped with steel muscle and tendons that lead to shoulders, neck and bionic brain. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I completed the game by picking up the wizard’s magic ring, claiming it for myself. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The pastor said the magic word, and the final cube twisted into place. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Surely these white people must have great magic to make such buildings! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Horus were here he could peek into the girl’s history, maybe discover how the magic was passed to her.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It continued past long storage racks that held a wide array of weaponry: magic swords, shields, powered armor suits, plasma rifles, railguns, and countless other weapons. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She still looked like a goblin, but now she looked like a pretty goblin, and Bod didn’t think she would have needed magic to attract Solomon Porritt, not with a smile like that. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Because the flower is magic,” I said, my voice cracking. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So we erased all of Ravenskill’s memories of us with arcane magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I would sit at my father’s feet, and he'd explain the ways of the world, how magic had been with us from the beginning. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We see the magic in everything, in all people. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"He's here to work his magic," the Beauty Minister says, "with his team." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The father in particular became less cocky and unbearable for several days after receiving a dose of Matilda's magic medicine. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

By all the rules of normal magic, meanwhile, she ought not to be able to see Hermione and him at all. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, face twisted with anguish, and said, “I don’t...I don’t have any fool magic.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And, as if by magic, the conversation stopped. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

How will I learn all there is to know about magic if Ma retires so soon? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her magic will open, and yours will pour away, and you, my dear, darling five-hundred-year-old Xan, will no longer have magic in you to keep you alive. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But here’s the magic thing: He comes in close and quick so that our faces touch this time, on the lips. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize my magic could be that dark. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not magic. I’m just sleeping. So shut up!” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know that real magic existed until just recently. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"After all," the magician said, “she is a magic beast It seems possible.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dancers filled the stage, delicately moving with the music, filling the room with magic. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drops his eyes and reaches into his blazer to pull out a magic wand. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She tried to determine whether her fingers would feel the magic there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, she had walked through fabric stores where there was cloth so beautiful, it was like magic. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked into the light, searching desperately for magic, because she needed it now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“With my help, and the help of these brave knights”—that description surprised Fabian and his comrades, I can tell you—“Jacob’s magic can overcome the dragon.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The magistrate was the only one who seemed to care at all about magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

All that medical magic would give me a new face that was more acceptable to society. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve read a lot of books about kids who find magic stuff. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Across from that, there was a funny man in a booth doing magic tricks with cards for the kids. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how the Muggles manage without magic,” he said as they climbed a broken-down escalator that led up to a bustling road lined with shops. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Rowan did as he was told and Scythe Rand passed the tweaker all over his body like some sort of magic wand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“A magic one,” I said to him in Farsi. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the year she knew him, before they were married, she discovered a little magic in herself, and for a while felt like a blithe genie released from her lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what your outlook, it is always better to believe in God, thanks to the magic of zero and infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I thought, and the very sound of those magic words made me forget my troubles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they’re magic. My head hurts too much to think about it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But the magic trick came with a catch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Remember, Jax,” he says solemnly, “magic will find you—if you believe.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if the little cart and its occupants were caught in the magic spell of an enchanted summer night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If they found the dragon up in the cliffs and it attacked, would fool magic protect Anya, or only the fools wielding it? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

At night, I searched my magic book for illustrations of Char or anything written by him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, only thirty. Thirty red, good luck, magic beads. Just like you got." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

No magic meant all her years of practice and hard work learning spells would go out the window. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know! And how can you warn against big magic when you just summoned Lucinda?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does possess some magic. Personally, I think it’s the warrior who wields it.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Which is why Macon Dead still believed the magic had lain in the two keys. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the front of the table was a long banner that said make magic happen with tech. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But it’s a magic sword, and only magic can repair magic. So he wanted me to fix it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The herd searched the forest for the hunter’s magic plant and destroyed every single one of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There are some people in this world who have magic in them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Isabelle took photographs the entire night, and Hugo sat at a table doing magic tricks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt had said the Thicket had magic woven into its vines, but it was still amazing to watch as we made our way through the maze of hallways unimpeded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She knew how much magic and effort that much enchantment took, and she could think of a few places where their resources would be of better use, especially if witches like Pixel were going hungry. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we all know Black girls are magic,” Britt-Marie chimes in with a shrug. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Are you altogether unconscious of the magic of the name of Michelangelo? From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he sank to his knees, still he shook his head, denying her, denying bey power, denying her magic, de-nying her god. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He thought that there was so much they did not know: Lupin had been right about magic they had never encountered or imagined. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Seven felt a surge of magic, warm and strong, pulse through her body as the amulets shone brightly and began to spin. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The third will open if she whispers a magic word through its keyhole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A simple thing, and yet it struck him as almost magic. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She knew how the magic had to be undone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued to roll, shooting silk randomly, pulling over braziers of magic fire and ripping tiles out of the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like magic, he overhears someone remark, and Herr Thiessen has to agree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you said magic, didn’t you?” said Blackberry with satisfaction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to put my one-dollar donation inside, but I was so distracted by magic squares and talking and presentations, I forgot and just passed the basket onto the next person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by magic, one falls Into his squealing mouth. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, fool magic runs in my family, and my father used it to defeat a bunch of monsters and marry a princess.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And I don’t reckon that these folk can do much more to help us, magic or no. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Instead he had played the slots and also went to see the Siegfried and Roy magic act. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I thought I’m not allowed to use magic outside school, sir?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Raymie held the magic globe up as high as she could. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos, now strong with magic, smiled across at his own father—but avoided the swineherd’s eye. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo didn’t want to bring him down, but he could still hear Gaea’s voice: He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all Jire, the silence that consumes all speech. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mikhail said, “What about your bow? Do you use that for magic too?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Styx once told us that laughter was a magic all its own. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the carnage, perhaps it was good that magic had vanished. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Listening now, are we? Very well then. Option two. You give me the Book for thirty minutes only. Then I return your magic to you.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And that was all the magic she needed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even if everything burns to the ground by some twisted magic, it will still be the last house standing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"It is no good saying Whoa, old boy. The thing will whoa when it wants to. It is a magic *un." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the magic seemed to have thinned into a tiny trickle dripping through a narrow channel in her porous bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jumping in front of the frozen TV picture, he waves the remote in circles, like it’s a magic wand. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thought they didn’t have to worry about anything They thought this magic could give life to plants and animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Goblin children fleeing griffin-riders through fields, screaming and zigzagging as the elfin knights dipped lower, hurling magic flame from their flying mounts in the black, smoke-smogged skies. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

‘Once the statue is returned to the Greeks ... I think it will be difficult to destroy. It has great magic. It has simply chosen not to use it yet.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Hodag’s magic resides largely in its horns which, when powdered, make a man immune to the effects of alcohol and able to go without sleep for seven days and seven nights. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cupboard was lined with magic cups and plates from Camp Half-Blood, which would fill up with whatever food or drink you wanted on command. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ariana was barely seven years old when she vanished from sight, and seven is the age by which most experts agree that magic will have revealed itself, if present. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once the moon rose, she would be able to capture at least a little bit of its magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

To compensate for this imbalance, he said, magic existed as a third and powerful force. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her magic was all she had, and she used it to destroy what she most admired. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They would say I was crazy, or bewitched by Ultima’s magic. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of a complex bit of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn became just a memory as I led them to distant lands where palaces shimmered against desert sand and paupers became princes with the whush of a magic wand. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How can you call a coach small magic?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was big magic to cast the spell in the first place. But it would be big magic to undo it too. Who can guess what would come of it?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Holly summoned the final dribble of magic from the base of her skull. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I started to think that maybe he really was someone else that night, and it was the magic of Halloween. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that there was more power in Ultima’s magic than in the priest? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With numbers, the magic is all in the luck of it, a thing that’s out of my hands and everyone else’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There can be little doubt that they were produced as part of a magic ritual, perhaps to ensure a successful hunt. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We missed our beds, we missed the food we were used to, we missed magic. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I needed some magic potion, some pick-me-up to bring me back into the spotlight. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Håkon had no magic as a human, so he was safe. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

So I decided to try something that calls for a bit of magic—a chocolate souffle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was the most concentrated area of magic in all of Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave of magic surged silently under her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Suppose we had a magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But others—and I think this is the better theory—they thought there were different subtypes of dragons, like how there are different types of magic.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A week later I saw in my magic book that Char had received my message. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Holly felt the magic rush up her arm like a jolt from an electrified troll fence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was more at home with magic than religion. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the water instantly soothes my skin, while the oils start to work their scented magic. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It feels like magic,” her grandmother had said very slowly, her eyes narrowing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Landau gets to our table, tears off two slips of magic paper, and hands one to Bob English. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that, of course, and Pong had seen the Governor's magic with his own eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You have the magic room,” he told me, as he moved toward my window. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When had María let her heart push all that magic away? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Though young girls have been known to be fickle. I may still want a magic sword.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I imagined a magic square to calm down, all the rows and columns and diagonals adding up to fifteen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tramped across the veld to visit friends and relatives, but the magic world of my childhood had fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why else would so many need to be in the one place where magic still exists? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a magic here working its way through my veins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stopped sounding so mean and said, “And there ain’t no such things as magic powers, neither.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he spent small thought on this, for he was looking about him now with every sense alert, looking for that enemy, the shadow, which would be waiting for him somewhere outside the magic walls. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could hear Lockhart dangling below him, saying, “Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In a hushed voice, she said, “You can’t use magic here.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker raises her arms, and like magic, everyone quiets. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She moves her hands so fast, it’s like magic. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t use it. It will go away, and then my fool magic will get better.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered something he’d told me a long time ago, when he first gave me the magic sword: It has a long and tragic history, which we need not go into. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, he’s done bad things. He made magic use illegal, and he called for the extermination of dragons.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Because out of the forest came a man who carried magic that no one had seen in more than a century. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, goblins can do magic without wands,” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Manipulation of the right magic in the right way could alter the trajectory of fate magic ever so slightly, and cause far-reaching changes. Only fools can interact with fate magic directly, and only by accident.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Now, snap your fingers and magic yourself back out to the street in front of the house. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’d never heard of fool magic until I met Ivan. And then what you did to Sigurd was amazing. How does your magic work?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And because the light was still dim, a morning twilight, the branches and all the white blossoms looked misty and delicate, an almost magic look. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The clue was a partially finished magic square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But how? They’ll never let me go onstage and show off my magic.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Christ was on the cross,” Jeanne went on, “but it must have been by magic, because there were no nails in his hands or his feet. But they were still bleeding...” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m certain the magic seashell—his most beloved possession, he’d said!—around my neck radiates joy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“There...there’s no such thing as magic,” he said shakily. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘We have to hold out until she gets that magic Athena statue back here.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house ‘home.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She said that there was a magic which would make her die for love, unless my brother was good to her. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Gaunt,” said Ogden, “to get straight to the point, we have reason to believe that your son, Morfin, performed magic in front of a Muggle late last night.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her only strength was her dark and ugly magic. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dissolved into each other, and we shared a common struggle against the evil within, which fought to repulse Ultima’s magic. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I earned a decent amount of money each month by selling commercial time on my POV channel and by auctioning off any unneeded magic items, armor, or weapons I acquired during my travels. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the reality of the injury set in, when it became apparent to Boobie that there was no magic wand, the grueling regimen of rehabilitation became more frustrating and futile. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love, humor, pain, magic, lost souls—all woven to create stories most cultures might sugarcoat. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Was I a witch because the only time I felt good about myself now, like a real, whole person, was when I was learning magic? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the coastal people below the Bristol Channel are secret people, and perhaps magic people. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now he looked at the stone trolls with suspicion, wondering if some magic might not suddenly bring them to life again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Really like magic, the bubbles fell away as the stick passed over. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And there were no NPC villains, monsters, or aliens for me to fight, so there was no treasure or magic items for me to plunder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a girl, and she had a magic about her. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

"Let your magic show you off, not you show off your magic." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She never seemed cowed, not by any of the magic, not by anything.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After a few moments, Hermione said gently, “But that’s impossible, Harry. You mean that you did magic without meaning to; you reacted instinctively.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ben watches George doing a magic trick with cards. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had to do something scary to test the feather, to see if it really was magic. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the magic pencil I used to pray for. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not nukes, not fireballs, and not magic missiles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He used potent magic to transform the captured fairy into an imp, unwittingly opening the door for magical retribution.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was illegal to use that kind of magic against another witch, but there was nobody to report them to. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

If the magic is still there in the daytime, he cannot feel it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The cows came thundering toward Marly and Mother just the way they had before, but way back they stopped like magic. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the strands of magic skittering this way and that and launching in long threads over the tops of the trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She had told him that she knew a magic drug to cure any ailment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her how Red was gone, and that I still had the book of magic squares. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next aisle, Mama goes for the biggest bag of rice I’ve ever seen, and I imagine her cooking me magic beans and rice, like in Daddy’s stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She could feel his warm breath against her skin, and Juana whispered her combination of prayer and magic, her Hail Marys and her ancient intercession, against the black unhuman things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason had remembered his old camp’s location more or less, but all the Greeks’ magic—even that of the campers of Hecate’s cabin—couldn’t confirm that Percy was there, or anywhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While some of the prisoners were people accused of attempting to practice magic—not that they could, given that magic had vanished from the kingdom—these days, more and more rebels arrived at Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These magic users cast spells around the clock, keeping the entire area encased in a temporary null-magic zone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“So she’ll be doing what you said he did, actual magic disguised as stage illusions. Did she do that at the audition?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s like an episode of Design This! All we need is Roger Piston to come in and say, ‘Do your magic!’ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our Miss Maestas came in and told us the war was over, and she was happy, but the little kids just went on writing the magic letters in their tablets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had at least taught Harry something about certain kinds of magic, of the incalculable power of certain acts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, for real, I don’t have any magic truth to guide you. It’s your trip, not mine. But now that you bring it up, I do have a card for you.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had never heard of sound magic before, and seeing what it could do made her breath stick in her throat. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He has magic in him, this man within the painted mask and swirling skirts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody left me alone on meet days because they knew I had my rituals—hair, nails, begging for Flo Jo to give me some of her magic from heaven. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“But how can we be sure I’m a born magician? Couldn’t someone have given me their magic without me knowing?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

How far did the tsar’s crusade against magic go? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I picked it up and carried it back across the tiny 8-bit kingdom, then used it to pass through the magic barrier and enter the Secret Room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had learned about magic squares when she hunted Shakespeare’s Secret in Colorado. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While we talked and waited for the souffle to complete its magic rise, the smell of baking chocolate seeped out of the kitchen and filled the house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The only dragons that I know are yours, and magic swords are even scarcer. I will gladly bring you rings and crowns and chests of gold if that is your desire.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is the only myth in which magic plays a decisive part, and it seems to have been a great favorite in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything that was on top fell to the floor, like the old magic trick done wrong. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t have any magic, and maybe she never would, but that didn’t matter just then. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It smelled like Babulya’s most delectable tinctures, when she took the most aromatic of her plants and stewed them into good magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He started pulling things out of the pockets of his magic tool belt - copper wire, some bolts, a brass funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On his feet were winged sandals; wings were on his low-crowned hat, too, and on his magic wand, the Caduceus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he means to conjure up the same magic that made the roots grow, made the branches of the throne bloom and twine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One of these rare tales told of a mysterious object called a book, which held the key to the greatest magic Kelanna had ever known. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the people of that country lived on the borders of the Wood in pine-board houses built up close to the trees, where the old magic lingered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this rate, how long would it take for that magic to flow like water, move like streams and rivers and oceans? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Merlyn had tom his breeches and stopped to mend them up by magic. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat was working its nasty magic, and the inside of the body was beginning to swell even as the skin was drying out and shrinking. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seen all them animals out of their cages and keeping real still. Is that man magic?” she asked. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew La Llorona was real, but for her promise of magic to be real too was more than I had expected. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"It's nature's magic vegetable. If a person ate nothing but raw onions, he could live to be two hundred years old." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the wood at midnight, a magic flower. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many kinds of magic, after all.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“She is in stasis. And the cocoon holds her magic inside.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

One of the magic spells I could cast was "Create Water." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need that piece of magic firewood,” Leo said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The unspoken rule of magic in Zmeyreka—and maybe all of Kievan Rus’—was that if you were going to use it, make sure no one saw you. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They had been using those freaky necklaces they’d worn during the battle in the valley to not only absorb power from other witches but to influence the Grans through powerful and corrupted magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He respected art, he said, but thought it was magic, and not for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She holds the magic glass up to her blue eye, looks through it and laughs, a low, dirty sound that only came out at two or three o’clock in the morning. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You think you know more magic than I do?” he said. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“The bigger the spell, the easier it is to resist. If you want to sleep millions of mortals, you’ve got to cast a very thin layer of magic. Sleeping demigods is much harder.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My dad gave me these charms, and each one represents something different. The raven protects against black magic. The bear inspires courage. The fish signifies a refusal to recognize other people’s magic.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every step was fire; her hips were magic. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kids wake up each day believing in the goodness of things, in the magic of what might be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But there’s also magic 'in the ways people find to overcome their curses, and maybe even find a way to make something beautiful out of them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s you in a world of magic. Of course.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Through sheer, savage will, Minya poured even her life force into the colossal expenditure of magic necessary to hold on to her ghosts and keep her charges safe—and not just safe but loved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You think,” said Jack, “that you can do your little magics on me? Do you know what I am, boy?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what kind of magic created it. Burial will only allow it to take root and spring up again.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And after they were slain and all their slaves were freed,” she said heavily, “there was still the nursery, and a future full of terrible, unguessable magic.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The magic was already faded, icy brightness turning back to common dew in the light of the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Luna, my love. Do you know what magic is?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: I want a return to pure and strong magic. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Naturally she was not going to help the magic Queen of Northgalis to keep Lancelot in prison—when it was the King of Northgalis himself who was going to fight her father. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how root magic works, that’s why I took your notebook. I wanted to see if there was anything in there that could tell me what my skin would be good for.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was afraid he would destroy everything by trying to force the magic on his own, when it was plain that the magic was reluctant to come for him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He almost immediately crumpled downward, the effort of the magic draining him of any strength he had left. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, wow! What is it? I’ve heard of emotional magics. Is it one of those? Or sense magic? Or natural?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward and whispered loudly, “Some said her receive the songs by magic. Nobody teached her. The songs, they just come.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy could not imagine how the curtain was supported in nothingness, and he supposed that the magic curtain and the theatrical grief were part of some religious ceremony he knew nothing about. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demoness and the demon girl would go to almost any lecturer who was giving a magic lantern show with slides of his travels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wizard crouched on the dead man’s chest and drank a cup of magic porridge, which flowed through his feet and into the lifeless body. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a section for inventing and a section for building and one for scientific study and one for botany and one for the study of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed like just an ordinary thing, but it was a baseball, signed by Joe Mauer, and Jack had given it to her, and in that way it was magic. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hex overload. It’s what happens when someone uses too much evil magic. They start to look like an evil monstruo.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What if he u1 down there,” I say, “but he’s magic like in that fairy tale ‘The Fisherman and His Wife.’” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai cracked first, tipping into helpless laughter, and Feral followed, and mirth worked its mundane magic, leaching the tension from Sarai’s spine and relieving the cold dread that had been pressing on her all evening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Angry tears have magic in them,” said Birdie. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When Emily finished solving the boy’s magic square it looked like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hera used hers against him with terrible effect and in the end he was killed by magic, but nothing that lived in the air, sea, or on land ever defeated him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Learn your magic. And your schoolwork too. Learn everything you can and become the person you want to be.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon’s magic had been so astonishing, she had forgotten all about the danger in the forest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“It is okay?” they say, like my hair is a thing of magic. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Milo stood his ground, taking shelter behind the hard-boiled egg raised protectively before his face like a magic charm. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

All through dinner I twist in my seat, checking the clock to make sure I do not miss the hour of magic numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the important subject of science and the decline of magic the work done by the last generation of historians is curiously unhelpful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He said he’d have Tyson crafting magic items like a master in no time. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

If someone tried just a little harder, maybe attempted to climb the towers, or use a magic raft…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They could see it was a magic pool: instead of reflecting the tree and the sky it revealed cloudy and colored shapes moving, always moving, in its depths. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

So it was a kind of magic, being here in this antiques store with a boy whose eyes were just the right shade of honey. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We followed neither the laws of God or of your pagan god, and we paid no heed to the magic of your Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like magic, I float inside, into the second floor and a pink bedroom. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any magic. Why would I?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know much about magic, but she didn’t think the Otherworld should be within driving distance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wonder sometimes, if I had looked at the space under the door to the bedroom, where my sister was sleeping, whether I would see beams of magic light shining from inside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She wandered through the woods, searching for children, whose bones she used to make her magic powders. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need a bowl of magic beans and rice to tell me how to answer. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

So that was the way Set started—Set the god of evil and black magic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If Ivy didn’t know magic to be gone from the world, she might wonder if Gran had a drop or two running in her veins. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That shouldn’t have been possible.The camp’s magic boundaries didn’t allow monsters to cross past Thalia’s tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave it. The magic will sort me out soon enough.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“After stealing his magic books! Or perhaps you may drag your dagger across his throat.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z