With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

No one's sure what's inside the big mauve-speckled egg that Cat Chant found in the attic but when it eventually hatches in Chrestomanci Castle chaos breaks out in the surrounding village.

Feeling unappreciated during the performance, a magician's assistant grabs the wand and performs some feats of her own.

Little Bessie Lee is on a mission to save the pandas! The adventures of Teeny Houdini come in short, easy-to-read chapters full of hilarious illustrations—a favorite series for building confident readers! When Bessie and her class take a field trip to the zoo, they get to meet someone very special: Xiao Qi Ji, a baby panda! But when Bessie learns that pandas are in danger, she has to do something to save them. Everyone in her class is working on...

Since the disappearance of his father, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world until he meets the Bone Magician and is drawn into an intoxicating world of mystery and intrigue. But as he begins to piece together the secrets of bone magic, his own life is put in grave danger.

In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fradulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her séances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.

In 1919 Boston, best friends Corinne and Ada perform illegally as illusionists in an infamous gangster's nightclub, using their "afflicted" blood to con Boston's elite, until the law closes in.

When Bunny becomes separated from Ray, a magician who is his business partner and friend, he follows a crowd to a park where he has a lovely afternoon, and after the people leave and darkness falls, the lonely and frightened Bunny finds a glittering trail of hope.

In 19th century London, Jack Foster discovers a mysterious mechanical world he may never escape.