Half Magic by Edward Eager: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

Today's Featured Book 

Half Magic by Edward Eager

Genre: Children's Fantasy

Published: 1954

Page Count: 209 pages

Summary: 

It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk.

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.

And something does: Her wish is granted.

Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true.

It turns out the coin grants wishes—but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want.

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?

 

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Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.

It began one day in summer about thirty years ago, and it happened to four children.

THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice, but Freda is currently taking a break and Anne of Head Full of Books is filling in. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up on Head Full of Books and visit others in the linky. 

“We have to be careful from now on,” he said. “We don’t want any more mistakes. That could have been bad.” 

“We’ll hide it in a safe place,” said Jane, “until tomorrow.” 

“I know where,” said Katharine. 

She led the others to the room she shared with Martha. There was a loose board in the floor with a space under it that the children had used to hide things in, back in the days when they were young. The children hid the charm in this secret place. 

“A mouse might find it and make a wish,” Martha objected. 

But the others felt that half the wish of a mouse could do little to upset their plans. 

They had many plans to make. 

“We’ll spend the night thinking up wishes,” said Jane. “It’ll be better from now on, because now we all know. We’ll make sensible wishes from now on. Tomorrow the real fun will begin.” 

And, in a way, it did.

The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.    

January 12th-18th - How many books are on your "to be read" list? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

Whew! I have a list of 568 books that I hope to read before I die. 

I seem to add more to the list than I read each year!