Easily accessible for beginners and with much to learn for advanced magicians, this instructional guide walks readers through fun party tricks using everyday objects: no complicated props required. Diamond Jim even teaches you some mind reading effects!

You won't believe your eyes! This book teaches aspiring magicians to perform amazing optical illusion tricks. Simple text, step-by-step instructions, and supporting photos will engage and excite young readers.

Presents step-by-step instructions for performing hundreds of tricks, provides tips on establishing a stage presence, and offers methods and styles of master magicians

Plastic milk? Carbon dragons? Readers will explore these and other whacky experiments in this awesome book on the science of materials! Accessible language breaks down complex concepts, and hands-on activities allow readers to experience science firsthand. Using supplies from around the house, they’ll stack liquids, slice ice, and build a tower on a base of eggshells! Readers will love learning about the real-life applications of scientific principles. They’ll launch vinegar rockets using the same science behind car engines! Step-by-step instructions with accompanying photographs and helpful tips make activities safe and easy to follow.

An entertaining book/disk duo filled with information on funny, interesting, and valuable programs. Turn your screen upside down; animate your desktop; turn your cursor into any symbol you'd like; and much more. (Operating Systems)

Part-time bookstore clerk, part-time author, necromancer in training, and full-time caretaker of a ghoul are titles that Ava Harper never dreamed of applying to herself. Even with all the crazy going on around her, she’s determined to make this Christmas as normal as possible—without raising the dead or some other fiasco. When her best friend’s wife comes up with the idea to throw a community-wide holiday party, Ava is all in. After all, the holidays have been a dark time for her ever since her husband died. This year will be different. She has a new start in life with family and friends, new and old. Then someone has the bright idea to conjure the real Saint Nick to surprise the kids. But the surprise is on Ava when the spell goes wrong and she summons the devil himself. Christmas in Shipton Harbor will never be the same again.

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.