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The Familiars:
When Aldwyn,
a young alley cat on the run, ducks into a mysterious pet shop, he doesn’t
expect his life to change. But that’s exactly what happens when Jack, a young
wizard, picks Aldwyn to be his magical familiar.
Finally off the tough streets, Aldwyn thinks he’s got it made. He just has to convince the
other familiars—the know-it-all blue jay Skylar and
the friendly tree frog Gilbert—that he’s the telekinetic cat he claims to be.
But when Jack and two other wizards in training are captured by a terrible
evil, it will take all of Aldwyn’s street smarts, a
few good friends, and a nose for adventure to save the day!
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Secrets of the Crown:
Get familiar with the familiars!
Chaos erupts in Vastia
when the evil Paksahara steals the Shifting Fortress
and casts a spell to rob all humans of their magic. Now it's up to the three
chosen ones, Aldwyn, Skylar,
and Gilbert, to reverse the curse. Using only their wits, their magic, and
their trust in one another, the three friends must embark on a dangerous quest
to retrieve the Snow Leopard's Crown—their last hope to defeat Paksahara—before it's too late.
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Circle of Heroes:
Aldwyn, a street-smart alley cat, pretended
he had telekinetic powers so young wizard Jack would chose him as a familiar. Aldwyn then learned that he and two other familiars—Skylar the blue jay and Gilbert the tree frog—were destined
to undertake a perilous quest to defeat Paksahara, an
evil hare who’d been familiar to the queen.
In Circle of Heroes, the third book of
The Familiars series for middle-grade readers, Paksahara
and her undead animal army control the Shifting Fortress. Aldwyn
and his friends have to recapture it to return magic to the queendom
of Vastia.
Fans of The Guardians of Ga’hoole series and Erin Hunter’s Warriors books will love
the mix of humor, magic, and animal adventure story in
Circle of Heroes by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson.
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Palace of Dreams:
The familiars Aldwyn
the cat, Skyler the blue jay, and Gilbert the tree
frog are off on an all-new adventure in the series that Michael Buckley,
bestselling author of The Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, says "combines
the magic of Harry Potter and the adventure of Warriors." With inventive
magic, laugh-out-loud humor, and a mysterious conspiracy that will take all the
familiars' wits to unravel, Palace of Dreams is the familiars' most
extraordinary adventure yet.
Peace has returned to the queendom of Vastia. Paksahara has been defeated, and the three familiars Aldwyn, Skyler, and Gilbert are
the heroes to thank. But when a birthday celebration at the palace goes
dreadfully wrong, and Queen Loranella falls victim to a curse, it seems the familiars are the
prime suspects. After narrowly escaping the palace dungeons, they'll have to
embark on a quest to clear their names—a quest that will lead them across Vastia and even into the magical land of dreams.