Background
Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney.
(In the third installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy,...)
In the third installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, the people Reason Cansino loves most are all in danger. Reason’s mother, Sarafina, has disappeared from the mental hospital in Sydney with Reason’s evil grandfather, Jason Blake. Jay-Tee, the closest thing Reason has to a best friend, has used all of her magic and faces death at any moment. Only Reason can find the answers within her family’s magic to save everyone who matters most to her. Magic’s Child is a satisfying and thrilling conclusion to a breakout trilogy that launched to multiple starred reviews and earned spots on the 2006 BBYA final list, as well as the Locus 2005 Recommended Reading List.
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(Reason Cansino isn't like other 15 year olds. For one thi...)
Reason Cansino isn't like other 15 year olds. For one thing, she's spent most of her life in the Australian Outback on the run from grandmother Esmeralda - a real life witch. For another, Reason got her ame because her mother, Sarafina, like it better than Logic or Rationality or Intellect - all good words representing the calm, ordered certainty that opposed Esmeralda's world. Suddenly Magic is real... and Reason is Magic! 566 Pages.
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(Finalist for the Hugo Best Related Book Award (2003) The...)
Finalist for the Hugo Best Related Book Award (2003) The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction is a lively account of the role of women and feminism in the development of American science fiction during its formative years, the mid-20th century. Beginning in 1926, with the publication of the first issue of Amazing Stories, Justine Larbalestier examines science fiction's engagement with questions of femininity, masculinity, sex and sexuality. She traces the debates over the place of women and feminism in science fiction as it emerged in stories, letters and articles in science fiction magazines and fanzines. The book culminates in the story of James Tiptree, Jr. and the eponymous Award. Tiptree was a successful science fiction writer of the 1970s who was later discovered to be a woman. Tiptree's easy acceptance by the male-dominated publishing arena of the time proved that there was no necessary difference in the way men and women wrote, but that there was a real difference in the way they were read.
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( If you lived in a world where everyone had a personal f...)
If you lived in a world where everyone had a personal fairy, what kind would you want? A clothes-shopping fairy (The perfect outfit will always be on sale!) A loose-change fairy (Pretty self-explanatory.) A never-getting-caught fairy (You can get away with anything. . . .) Unfortunately for Charlie, she's stuck with a parking fairy-if she's in the car, the driver will find the perfect parking spot. Tired of being treated like a personal parking pass, Charlie devises a plan to ditch her fairy for a more useful model. At first, teaming up with her archenemy (who has an all-the-boys-like-you fairy) seems like a good idea. But Charlie soon learns there are consequences for messing with fairies-and she will have to resort to extraordinary measures to set things right again.
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(For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived on the run. T...)
For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived on the run. Together with her mother, Sarafina, she has moved from one place to another in the Australian countryside, desperate not to be found by Reason’s grandmother Esmeralda, a dangerous woman who believes in magic. But the moment Reason walks through Esmeralda’s back door and finds herselfon a New York City street, she’s confronted by an unavoidable truth—magic is real.
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(Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful t...)
Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful truth that she— like her mother, grandmother, and new friends Tom and Jay-Tee—must make a choice: to use the magic that lives in her blood and die young, or refuse to use the magic and lose her mind. Now a new threat leaves Reason stranded alone in New York City, struggling to control a power she barely understands. But could the danger she faces also hold the key to saving her life? Magic Lessons is the stunning follow-up to Larbalestier’s lavishly praised debut novel, Magic or Madness, called a "radiant gem" and a "fierce, hypnotic novel" in starred reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595140549/?tag=2022091-20
Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney.
Her surname has been pronounced in several different ways. Q: How do you pronounce your surname? Those are all fine by medical Friends at school used to pronounce it: Lavaworm.
I have to really like you to let you get away with that one, but.
She now alternates residence in Sydney and New York City. They met in New York City while she was doing postdoctoral research.
They have different stories of how they metropolitan
(Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful t...)
(Finalist for the Hugo Best Related Book Award (2003) The...)
( If you lived in a world where everyone had a personal f...)
(In the third installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy,...)
(For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived on the run. T...)
(Reason Cansino isn't like other 15 year olds. For one thi...)