A fantasy book with no magic? That’s like a bagel without cream cheese! Cereal without milk! An owl without a graduation cap!

As the world’s only librarian possessing “the magic to enter books,” she must restore the Books of the Seven Heroes. She is also searching for her parents, who went missing when she was a child.

A book about Jews in magic, from Germany, in the very year that the Nazis assumed power and started burning “un-German” books in bonfires across the country. It seemed obvious.

HERE’S A FUN PROJECT for your nature-loving summer bingo card. In 2020, Tacoma artist and educator Lucia Harrison created and launched Pacific Northwest Native Plant Magic Books. The series is ...