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On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers.
Anonymous
Posted April 22, 2013
WARRIORS: CRY TO THE STARS
BOOK ONE - AFTER THE WAR
ALLEGIANCES:
THUNDERCLAN
LEADER: Spiderstar – long-limbed older black tom with brown underbelly and amber eyes (Spiderleg)
DEPUTY: Foxleap – reddish tabby tom
Apprentice, Wolfpaw
MEDICINE CAT: Jayfeather – light gray tabby tom with blind blue eyes
Apprentice, Fatepaw
WARRIORS-
Hazeltail – small gray-and-white shecat
Apprentice, Wingpaw
Mousewhisker – gray-and-white tom
Lionblaze – golden tabby tom with amber eyes
Cinderheart – gray tabby shecat
Toadstep – black-and-white tom
Rosepetal – dark cream shecat
Apprentice, Bravepaw
Bumblestripe – very pale gray tom with black stripes
Ivypool – silver and white tabby shecat with dark blue eyes
Cherryfrost – ginger shecat (Cherrypaw)
Apprentice, Nightpaw
Moletooth – brown-and-cream tom (Molepaw)
Apprentice, Sharkpaw
Lilypatch – dark tabby shecat with white patches (Lilykit)
Dewfrost – small white tom with blue eyes (Dewkit)
Ambershine – dark ginger shecat (Amberkit)
Snowfern – pure white tom (Snowkit)
Stormheart – dark stormy gray tom (the son of Lionblaze and Cinderheart)
Hollyspark – small black shecat with dark green eyes (the daughter of Lionblaze and Cinderheart)
Swiftfang – small gray shecat with white patches (the daughter of Bumblestripe and Icecloud)
Winterbreeze – gray-white tom with very faint black tabby stripes (the son of Bumblestripe and Icecloud)
Dovestorm – pale gray tom with blue eyes (the son of Bumblestripe and Icecloud)
Grasspelt – light brown tom (formerly of RiverClan)
APPRENTICES:
Fatepaw – gray tabby tom with black stripes, ginger paws, and amber eyes (the son of Lionblaze and Cinderheart)
Wolfpaw – dark gray tom with one slightly twisted paw (the son of Toadstep and Ivypool)
Wingpaw – black and white shecat (the daughter of Toadstep and Ivypool)
Bravepaw – dark silver and black tom (the son of Toadstep and Ivypool)
Sharkpaw – a dark blue-gray, almost black tom (former rouge, found on ThunderClan's border as a kit)
Nightpaw – small black tom (only surviving kit of Birchfall and Whitewing's second litter; sisters Fallkit and Tabbykit both died along with their mother during the Greencough episode)
QUEENS:
Seedflower – very pale ginger shecat (Seedkit, mother of Moletooth's kits: Treekit, a dusky brown tom, Patchkit, a ginger and brown shekit, and Willowkit, a cream shekit, and also foster mother to Squirrelflight's kits: Hawkkit, a dark brown tabby tom, Firekit, a dark ginger shekit, Redkit, a ginger tabby tom, and Ghostkit, a pale gray tom with white patches)
Blossomfall – tortoiseshell and white shecat (expecting Grasspelt's kits)
ELDERS:
Brackenfur (golden tabby tom)
Cloudtail (long-furred white tom)
Leafpool (light brown tabby shecat with amber eyes, former medicine cat)
Birchfall (brown tabby tom)
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Posted February 23, 2012
Love it .great read good for childern who like story that have magic there will problely like thast
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Posted February 11, 2002
Magic by the Lake is a great book. The kids run into all sorts of magical figures,like the turtle. They get themselves into all sorts of messes,and their parents don't have a clue. This book is a great follow up to Half Magic.
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Posted June 3, 2013
I punched my fist in the air and yelled "YESS! SHE'S ALIVE!" in a very high pitched voice upon seeing leafpool's name in the elders.
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Posted May 14, 2013
AAAAAAAAUUUUUIRRRRRRRCHJR!!!
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Posted May 8, 2013
I liked it
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Posted April 28, 2013
TO BRAMBLESTAR AND DOVEWING??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Posted February 6, 2013
Totally want!!!!!!!!!!! If youve read half magic, youll LOVE the story in here. SO TOTALLY WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU ARE WILLING PLEASE LEND TO ME!!!!!! I NEED SOMETHING TO DO!!!!!!!!!! PLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ILL DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!! ANY GRADE!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!! PRETTY PLEASE!!! WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!!!!!!!!!
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Posted January 29, 2013
Magic by the lake is a charming piece of literature. I highly reccoment this book. This book will laeve you on the edge of your seat. It has many cliff hanging adventures and you will never be bored with it!!!!!! :) :) ! !
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Posted August 13, 2012
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Posted January 6, 2012
This is a fun, fantasy adventure with a lot of humor along the way. Great for all ages.
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Posted July 18, 2011
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If you know me well, then you know that I rave about Edward Eager. I know that he is an E. Nesbit imitator, and several of his books borrow heavily from her plots. He did not deny this. But since I have never read a Nesbit story, I am able to judge Eager's books as works by themselves. I can never say enough good things about his stories. It's really too bad he only wrote seven in this series. I wish there were more worthwhile books like these for kids to read instead of the often depressing or slutty youth fiction out there now. "Magic By the Lake" is the third book he wrote in his magic books series, but it is actually a sequel to the first one, "Half Magic". Once again, we are taken to the 1920's where Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha experience an encore magic adventure. Often, they enter the worlds of their favorite books. The book being replete with illustrations, one thing I liked to do was flip forward to the next chapter to look at the drawings to get a sneak peek at what their next adventure would hold. Anything and everything crazy happens from encountering pirates, discovering the South Pole, growing up overnight, meeting their future children, and almost being eaten by cannibals! The only 'down' side of the book was the ending. Half the book was spent in the children trying to find a way to save their stepfather's bookshop business, but in the end, the business was not really saved by their efforts. Parents concerned by the 'magic' in these books need not be worried. There are certainly not in the same vain as Harry Potter, wizardry, etc. Rather, they are innocent "fairy tales" where the protagonists get three wishes (or, in this case, a whole lake-ful) and they experience the adventures and consequences from their magic wish. The children must learn to work cooperatively together and how think through how their actions may effect others. They also learn the consequences of wishes made selfishly. This being the third of Eager's books that I've read, I've found that in each of his tales, a certain down-to-earth realistic element does exist alongside the fanastical. In "Magic By the Lake", it is the situation of the children's father possible losing his job (something that can well be identified with in today's world). But lest you get the impression that these books are depressing or "preachy", nothing could be farther from the truth! Basically, it's just a good old-fashioned story that should just be absorbed and enjoyed as just that-- not bogged down by commentaries and annotations. These are kids' books, but I can tell you that as a young adult, I probably enjoy these for all their delightfulness more than I would have when I was younger. I think this comes from the fact that the children are so real. I mean, they think like kids think and act as kids act. I was sorry to come to the end of the story and find that Jane, Mark, Katherine, and Martha do not have another book about them later in the series, but I know that they make a cameo appearance in "The Time Garden". Sorry to go on and on about this (I warned you I rave!). Do not deny yourself the pleasure of reading this series! P.S. - These make great read-aloud books!
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Posted March 2, 2008
I actually picked this book for my book report and I got an A+ It was one of the most intersting books I have ever read
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Posted September 5, 2005
Magic by the Lake, the sequel to my favorite book Half Magic, is about the new magical adventures of Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha going on a summer vacation along a lake with their mother and stepfather. When Jane accidentally wishes for a whole lakeful of magic, they bump into thousands of problems and journeys (for example, they go to the South Pole and go aboard a pirate ship by magic) until they realize that their stepfather is the one that needs magic most. I liked this book because it's so cool how Edward Eager mixes in other classic stories with this fantastic book.
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Posted March 17, 2001
I think that this is an extrordinary book. Very interesting, very funny, and very magical. I wish that something like what happened to them would happen to me someday.
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Posted January 9, 2001
I loved this book sooooo much it was exciting, cute, and funny. You have to read it
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Posted July 2, 2000
The book is awesome! I think everyone should read it. It is VERY exciting. It is one of those books you can't put down!! The book also inspires you to read more ( it especially inspires you to read more Edward Eager books!)It is on A LOT of lists of things that are good to read! I didn't like to read ( I even told that to my teacher) but after reading Magic By The Lake I read ALL the time!It is a COOL book...READ IT
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Overview
Further adventures of Mark, Katherine, Jane, and Martha, who find their source of magic in a lake near which they are spending the summer.
On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers.