Magic Repair Shop, Master of Mirrors (Book Three)
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Magic Repair Shop, Master of Mirrors (Book Three)
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Aladdin, 2011
Fiction/Non-Fiction
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Reluctant Reader
Part of a Series
This third book in the Magic Repair Shop series continues the story of 12-year-old Maggie, who is still discovering her own very powerful abilities as a magician. Since discovering the magic repair shop, Maggie’s life has been a series of magical mishaps. In previous books, she has been whisked away in a magical mirror to South Africa, attacked by a parade of wild animals, nearly lost her beloved pet and talking rabbit Hasenpfeffer to a shape shifter, and been threatened by the evil magician Milo the Magnificent, whom she had left trapped in a mirror. Since that time she has been plagued by hearing voices and thinking that she is seeing glimpses of Milo’s red cape in mirrors, although several magician friends have told her this is not possible.
As the book opens, Maggie is attempting the rescue of a young child whose reflection had been stolen by a ghost crocodile named Buhodu. After successfully performing the rescue, she returns to her special school, where a scheduled puppet show is disrupted when the puppets turn out to be enchanted house brownies who attack their audience with stones. After promising to work on that issue, she is assigned to work on a puppetry project with an unpleasant classmate named Darcy, and returns home only to be told that her grandfather’s ghost has appeared with a warning about a dangerous kobold that has escaped from imprisonment and has formed an alliance in the mirrors with Milo.
Milo and the kobold are now working together to seek revenge upon her. Attacked by the kobold, Maggie is once again swept into a mirror universe, this time with her classmate Darcy, where according to magical laws, she must accomplish three magical tasks to earn her freedom, or be trapped in the mirrors forever. With the help of some unexpected allies and the development of an understanding with Darcy, Maggie succeeds in her magical trials. However, many threads are left to be tied up, and the book leaves many clues to future episodes in Maggie’s story.
This is a fun, engaging, and largely undemanding book that moves quickly through a series of adventures and sweeps the reader along. While some of the relationships and situations will be more understandable if the earlier books in the series have been read, the story is engaging enough on its own, and enough history is given in the book to keep readers going without having read the previous books.
Maggie is spirited and likable, with good problem-solving skills, and an upbeat attitude toward her unconventional life. She is willing to put herself at risk for others, and faces the dangers of her magical work with courage and aplomb. The supporting cast of characters, the nervous and dithery rabbit Hasenpfeffer, the small peppery dragon Habanero, the officious kobold, and even the grandly evil Milo, are well presented and offer interesting vignettes that help fill out Maggie’s world. The reluctant friendship that forms between Maggie and Darcy is well handled, and the book comes together in a most satisfying package.
With many hints dropped of revelations to be made and problems to be solved in future adventures, the reader is left looking forward to new additions to the series. Offer this to young readers who are developing an interest in fantasy, but are not yet ready for the more challenging offerings of Harry Potter or Fablehaven.
Recommended by Linda Lucke, Librarian
As the book opens, Maggie is attempting the rescue of a young child whose reflection had been stolen by a ghost crocodile named Buhodu. After successfully performing the rescue, she returns to her special school, where a scheduled puppet show is disrupted when the puppets turn out to be enchanted house brownies who attack their audience with stones. After promising to work on that issue, she is assigned to work on a puppetry project with an unpleasant classmate named Darcy, and returns home only to be told that her grandfather’s ghost has appeared with a warning about a dangerous kobold that has escaped from imprisonment and has formed an alliance in the mirrors with Milo.
Milo and the kobold are now working together to seek revenge upon her. Attacked by the kobold, Maggie is once again swept into a mirror universe, this time with her classmate Darcy, where according to magical laws, she must accomplish three magical tasks to earn her freedom, or be trapped in the mirrors forever. With the help of some unexpected allies and the development of an understanding with Darcy, Maggie succeeds in her magical trials. However, many threads are left to be tied up, and the book leaves many clues to future episodes in Maggie’s story.
This is a fun, engaging, and largely undemanding book that moves quickly through a series of adventures and sweeps the reader along. While some of the relationships and situations will be more understandable if the earlier books in the series have been read, the story is engaging enough on its own, and enough history is given in the book to keep readers going without having read the previous books.
Maggie is spirited and likable, with good problem-solving skills, and an upbeat attitude toward her unconventional life. She is willing to put herself at risk for others, and faces the dangers of her magical work with courage and aplomb. The supporting cast of characters, the nervous and dithery rabbit Hasenpfeffer, the small peppery dragon Habanero, the officious kobold, and even the grandly evil Milo, are well presented and offer interesting vignettes that help fill out Maggie’s world. The reluctant friendship that forms between Maggie and Darcy is well handled, and the book comes together in a most satisfying package.
With many hints dropped of revelations to be made and problems to be solved in future adventures, the reader is left looking forward to new additions to the series. Offer this to young readers who are developing an interest in fantasy, but are not yet ready for the more challenging offerings of Harry Potter or Fablehaven.
Recommended by Linda Lucke, Librarian
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