Pitiful Poppy, may be the first kid who ever dreamed of running away from the circus. Because of her stupid back brace, she’s the only member of her world-famous trapeze family who can’t ‘fly.’ But she’s very good at fixing up injured critters of all sorts. Settling into their grandfather’s ‘haunted’ house
in Florida, Poppy makes her first real friends while attending a very strange purple school run by the freaky Madame La Vender. But what happened to her grandfather? He went missing seven years ago, about the time other weird happenings began.
The race is on to find an ancient book of wishes her grandfather had. Maybe it will change her luck, until she makes a terrible discovery-its wishes don’t turn out quite right.
Once opened, can anyone close the book again on the diabolical Stolen Magic?
Table of Content
1 The Kerteszys Claim Their Castle 1
2 Sophie and Morris Meet Their Match 10
3 Some Not-So-Happy Homes 14
4 All Kinds of Surprises 22
5 Everything Is About To Change… 28
6 More Will Be Revealed 37
6 An Unexpected Lesson 43
7 An Unpleasant Invitation 48
8 A Toad Comes To Call 55
9 Madame’s Dark Secret 58
10 Seven Years Earlier 60
11 Secrets In The Manor 66
12 Sophie Slips! 69
13 The Hunting Party 72
14 The Cat Comes and Goes and… 74
15 A Job For Natasha 77
16 Natasha’s Awful Dilemma 80
17 Beata Always Knows 84
18 Four For The Manor-(and a very large Fifth) 88
19 Cat Talk 95
20 The Boat House Rules 100
21 An Adventure at Sea 105
22 Forgiven 108
23 Only The Beginning 111
24 The Story of Zoltan 114
25 Natasha the Spy 121
26 Not The Way She Planned 125
27 A Devious Plan 131
28 A Suspicious Package 134
29 Natasha Gets It 137
30 The Queen of Clubs 140
31 Someone’s Magic 142
32 Coming Home 148
33 Time To Go 152
Epilogue 155
About the author
Eloise Zeeman studied short story writing under David Markson (The Ballad of Dingus Magee), Lisa Reardon (The Mercy Killers, Blameless, Billy Dead), and famed Knopf editor Gordon Lish at Columbia University Master Writing Program. A lifelong poet and short story writer, this is her first novel. Also a master gardener, yoga teacher and vegetarian of 30 years, her other joys are working on her yoga center, Blyss Yoga Vermont, growing food and pollinators, and running her farm animal sanctuary.She has been most inspired by raising her grandson with autism (in a very neurodivergent family) where the creativity, cleverness andmagic of kids who are ‘different’ shines brightly.
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