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41) See Zip zap
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text introduce Zip, an unlucky alien magician, and his friend Bip. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
London is the link between parallel universes, and magician Kell is one of two Travelers who can move between them. Now something sinister is disturbing their equilibrium, and Kell must try to unravel the plot with only feisty street thief Delilah Bard as an ally.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining, and magical work on the illusionist's impact on American culture -- and why his legacy endures to this day.
Author
Series
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Magic Club is supposed to be fun for Frankie Miller and his friends. But that pest, Ari Goodwyn is always ruining everyone's tricks. After a really embarrassing fail, Frankie wants revenge. When the legendary magician, Mystical Marvin, comes to town to perform his daring stunts, Frankie sees an opportunity to get even with Ari. There's only one problem: everything goes wrong. Can Frankie and his friends make things right? Or will the opportunity...
Author
Series
Teeny Houdini volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Bessie Lee is a teeny first grader with big dreams! She will be just like the famous magician Houdini! Her magic tricks will help her win the talent show...then maybe her family won't tell her she is too small to do things. When Bessie makes the class hamster disappear, can Bessie bring him back...or is Rufus lost forever?
47) Cruel illusions
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ava Perry leaves the safety of her foster care home and joins a troupe of vampire-hunting magicians, believing that she finally has her chance to discover the truth behind her mother's death.
Since a vampire murdered her mother, Ava has survived foster home after foster home, determined to get revenge. It's been ten years since anyone has seen a vampire-- until Ava stumbles across a hidden magic show where she witnesses impossible...
48) Now you see me
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
49) The Prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all...
Author
Series
Stuart Horten volume Book 1
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As if being small and having S. Horten as his name isn't bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends. But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart's swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tony's marvelous, long-lost workshop.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Multi-Eisner award-winning writer Paul Tobin pens a fantasy epic of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher--one of the few remaining monster hunters from the critically acclaimed video game fantasy The Witcher by CD Projekt Red!
53) Poof! A bot!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps a bot and tells it what to do, but the bot does not listen. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
54) Now you see me 2
Publisher
Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
Author
Series
The witcher graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Travelling near the edge of the Black Forest, in the land of the Angren, witcher Geralt meets a widowed man whose dead and murderous wife resides in an eerie mansion known as the House of Glass. With its endless rooms and horror around every corner, Geralt will have to use all his witcher prowess to solve the manor's mystery and survive." -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Thunder must learn how to get along with the other animals living there. When the magician gets into a car accident, however, the pets must join forces against an evil nephew who tries to sell his house.
57) Next
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.
Author
Series
Dresden files volume Book 11
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Assigned to investigate the deaths of several magic practitioners, all of whom lacked the ability to become full-fledged wizards, professional Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is shocked when the evidence points to his half-brother Thomas as the killer.
60) The Last unicorn
Publisher
Lionsgate [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A lonely unicorn, believing herself to be the last, searches for any others of her kind, while avoiding the malevolent Red Bull, the agent believed to have destroyed the rest of her herd. She finally finds help from a magician named Schmendrick and a knight named Prince Lir.
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