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Oliver wants to be a wizard, but things turn disastrous when his best friends Bea and Teenie get him invited to a classmate's birthday party as the entertaining magician. With nothing else to do, Oliver visits the Great Zoocheeni's Magic Emporium but only has money to buy a moth-eaten top hat. Remarkably, inside the hat is the wisecracking magic rabbit Benny, who agrees to help Oliver with his magic for a share of the profits. However, when Oliver...
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Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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The next adventure in the High Republic begins expanding the new era of Star Wars, with a story set generations before Light of the Jedi. It is an age of exploration. Jedi travel the galaxy, expanding their understanding of the Force and all the worlds and beings connected by it. Meanwhile, the Republic, led by its two chancellors, works to unite worlds in an ever-growing community among near and distant stars. On the close-orbiting planets of Eiram...