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Half Magic by Edward Eager6/23/2023 Even as a child I was savvy enough to catch the biggest name-drop in the book which was the multiple references to the books by E Nesbit, and I know that when I finished this series her books were the next ones to be checked out. I wonder if parents reading this book aloud to their children in the 50s got a laugh seeing these things in print. Now with the power of the Internet they are just a quick Googling away. his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help, Stone realizes peace. Half Magic Edward Eager HarperCollins, Juvenile Fiction - 224 pages 456 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. They drop lots of references to fictional characters or real people or real publications that just sailed right over my head when I read this before. Death Waits in the Dark - Mark Edward Langley. These children are of course fictional children written by an adult. I feel almost like it's going back three generations and that's pretty wild. Rereading them now as an adult the book is a lot shorter than I remember and of course it reads like a book written in the 50s about life in the 20s because that's exactly what it is. Some of the parts really stuck with me and I remember hunting down the rest of the series and enjoying most of them. I read this book as a kid because my parents had read this book as a kid (it would have just been released for them).
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