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    The Magic Comes Back: A Max and Sam Adventure
    The Magic Comes Back: A Max and Sam Adventure
    The Magic Comes Back: A Max and Sam Adventure
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    The Magic Comes Back: A Max and Sam Adventure

    By Deborah Graham

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    Two cousins develop an unlikely friendship as they are transported into a magical wizard world, where they must plot against the king in order to solve an old family mystery.

    Its bad enough that Max, who is in fourth grade, has a weird cousin who thinks he is a wizard; when his cousin, Sam, transfers to his school, things seem to have gone from bad to worse. But then Sam shows Max a magic wand and lets him try itand it works! Max might just be a wizard himself.

    After the boys visit their greatgrandmother and find out the true story behind their familys gift for magic, they receive a key which opens an old box they find in her attic. As soon as Max turns the key, the boys are transported to Wizard World, where they must take a series of tests to be accepted into the Wizard Academy. What could possibly go wrong? Max and Sam are about to find out.

    In this action-packed tale of magic and friendship, two cousins embark on an unforgettable adventure in a magical world where they discover their talents and a surprising friendship as they plot against the Wizard King in order to solve a family mystery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 4, 2012
    ISBN9781475947571
    The Magic Comes Back: A Max and Sam Adventure
    Author

    Deborah Graham

    DEBORAH GRAHAM is a collaborative lawyer, mediator, and part-time professor. She lives in Toronto with her son, Christopher, and their cat, Butterscotch.

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      The Magic Comes Back - Deborah Graham

      Copyright © 2012 by Deborah Graham

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4758-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4757-1 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4759-5 (dj)

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/02/2012

      Contents

      Chapter One The Wand

      Chapter Two The Magic Doesn’t Work

      Chapter Three The Key

      Chapter Four The Final Game of the Season

      Chapter Five The Wizard Trainer

      Chapter Six The Fire Test

      Chapter Seven The Wind Test

      Chapter Eight The Water Test

      Chapter Nine The Missing Wand

      Chapter Ten The Diary

      Chapter Eleven The Plan

      Chapter Twelve The Wizard King

      Acknowledgments

      To Christopher, who makes every day magical.

      Chapter One

      The Wand

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      You don’t understand. It’s bad enough to have a weird cousin who thinks he’s a wizard, but having a weird cousin who thinks he’s a wizard transfer to your school is like beyond bad—it’s horrible, Max whined as he started stuffing his mouth full of his mom’s famous chocolate chip muffins before he even sat down. The chocolate chips were still warm and gooey.

      Come on, sweetie, it can’t be all that bad, Max’s mom said as she tousled his already messy hair with her hand. She smelled like chocolate.

      Max protested, No, I’m serious—you have no idea how bad it is. Sam walks around at recess with his nose shoved in his stupid wizard books, muttering spells. All the kids make fun of him. It’s so embarrassing to be related to him. I wish he had never moved to Toronto.

      His mom looked at him with her eyebrows raised. If the kids are picking on him at school, I hope you stand up for him, she said, with that tone that made Max feel all squeamish inside, like he had done something wrong even if he hadn’t. Her usually happy blue eyes looked troubled.

      I do, Mom, but I just wish he was normal. Having Sam at my school is enough to make me hate grade four. Pleeeease, Mom, don’t make me play with Sam today. It’s Saturday. It’s bad enough that I have to see him on a school day. Besides, it’s the last game of the hockey season today. If we don’t make it to the play-offs, this is my last chance to score a goal this year.

      Max looked up at his mom with his big brown eyes. He knew she was a softie

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