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Gr 3–7—Brine has no recollection of her family or of why she was abandoned on a rowboat three years earlier, and at 12, she is unhappily cleaning house for the magician Magus. She and magic don't get along, however—she's allergic to it. She might as well be allergic to Magus's annoying apprentice, Peter, too. All that interests her are the books in her mentor's library. When ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twelve-year-olds Brine, a magician's servant, and Peter, the magician's apprentice, fight a lot -- especially when a botched attempt to disrupt their master's plan to marry off Peter and send away Brine leaves the two of them adrift in a rowboat, lost at sea. Their luck turns, however, when they are rescued by pirate captain Cassie O'Pia and her crew aboard the Onion, famed for, among other things, defeating Marfak West, "the evilest magician the world has ever known." But Marfak West wasn't a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twelve-year-olds Brine and Peter find themselves adrift in a rowboat, lost at sea. Their luck turns when they are rescued by pirate captain...Log In or Sign Up to Read More