Annie Barrows
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4 | 356 Users | 52 Reviews
Present Books Concering Magic in the Mix (Miri and Molly #2)
| ISBN: | 1619634821 (ISBN13: 9781619634824) |
| Series: | Miri and Molly #2 |
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From best-selling Ivy and Bean author Annie Barrows comes the much-anticipated sequel to The Magic Half.Molly and Miri Gill are twins. They look the same, act the same, sometimes even think the same. But they weren’t always twins. . . . Molly used to live in 1935, until Miri traveled back in time to save her from the clutches of Molly’s evil adoptive family. Only they know about the magic, and its power to set things right. So when home repairs unleash more unexpected magic from their very special . . . very magical old house, the girls set off on another time-traveling adventure to the Civil War where they race against the clock to save two unusual soldiers and come to terms with the truth about Molly’s real past.
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| Title | : | Magic in the Mix (Miri and Molly #2) |
| Author | : | Annie Barrows |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | September 16th 2014 by Bloomsbury USA Childrens (first published 2014) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Childrens. Magic. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Middle Grade. Historical |
Rating Regarding Books Magic in the Mix (Miri and Molly #2)
Ratings: 4 From 356 Users | 52 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Magic in the Mix (Miri and Molly #2)
I have not read The Magic Half, but decided to give this volume a go regardless. Luckily for me, Annie Barrows does a good job of explaining the goings-on of the first book so that a new reader might not be totally lost. I still felt as if I was missing something, but I think that something was only the pleasure of having read the first story about Miri and Molly.This is a good book for fans of time travel, puzzles and history. It gets a little harsh at times (as stories must, when they dealNot nearly as light as the cover implies, or as the older stories that it reminds me of (for example, the Half Magic series by Edward Eager. It has enough intense Civil War history in it that it's a good thing that there's an author's note. And there's a theme about what one's duties are, when one learns an uncomfortable truth. I don't quite feel eager to read another in the series, so 3.5 stars, but rounded up because I think it's an interesting and valuable book that more MG kids should read.
In this sequel to The Magic Half, Miri and Molly travel back in time again. Some work being done on their house opens up portals to two different periods in time -- 1918 and during the Civil War. Unsure of exactly what the magic wants them to fix, they worry that it might have something to do with Molly's birth. When their twin brothers Robbie and Ray accidentally journey into the past, Molly and Miri risk everything to save them. A great follow up to the first book, and a must-read for lovers
I enjoyed this book, and my kids, 3rd & 1st graders, really enjoyed this book. I would give it a three, myself. One part of the book that I found to be incongruent with the rest was the dark hole from shelling. Miri feels like she's almost pulled into it. It felt very dark and the genre really changed for me. I thought it was an unnecessary addition to the book, and a part that night give my kids nightmares.My first grader was very nervous during many of the civil war scenes, but she covered
Molly and Miri now live together as twins, although they both remember how Molly came to their family and have two different versions of memories of the past in their heads. They travel back in time again and have to figure out the purpose for this magic as Molly worries that she doesn't really belong in this happy family she's found and Miri doesn't want to be alone again, but needs to know what "the magic" wants. It doesn't just happen for no reason. As Grandma May says, "Magic is just a way
Good, but wished two parts of the ending would have been stronger. As characters, if the boys were going to be so important, I would have liked them to be less flat. I am mixed about shifting between three time periods. In some ways, this read like the middle book in a trilogy, where you feel like more questions are raised than are answered.
Genre: Science Fiction Age: 3rd-6thThe Twins are back, their house is the problem as it allows them to travel back in time to Molly's Mom's Era. The problem isn't the time travel its what happens when their brothers fall through the chasm and inadvertently become traitors in the civil war. I was fortunate enough to grab a pre-street copy at the Texas Library Association's Conference this year. I had always loved the first book as it was really well written form of early science fiction. This
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