Do you believe in magic?
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
Edinburgh, 1874: Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation — the implantation of a cuckoo-clock in his chest. From then on his days all begin with a wind-up, in this darkly magical and tender fairy tale spiced with devilish humor.
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Earthy and magical, this tale of family life in tum-of-the-century Mexico is a winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.
The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
In the middle of the night, Alexandra discovers a magical bookmobile that holds the library of a lifetime. She yearns to live her true calling, but at a price she never expected.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake.
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a force that's forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.
