Half Magic
Edward Eager
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
<p>It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk.<BR> Jane finds the coin, and becasue she and her sblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen.<BR> And something <I>does: </I>Her wish is granted.<BR> Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true.<BR> It turns out the coin grants wishes&#8212;but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want.<BR> Wishing for two times some things is a cinch, but other doubled wishes only cause twice as much trouble. What is half of twice a talking cat? Or to be half-again twice not-here? And how do you double your most heartfelt wish, the one you care about so much it has to be perfect?</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></p>