Magic Or Madness Trilogy
Larbalestier, Justine – (Magic or Madness #1) – Magic or Madness

Young Adult
Narrated by Alison Larkin
Unabridged; 32 mp3 parts; 64 kbps
Duration: 7 hrs and 33 min
(The first book in the Magic Or Madness Trilogy series)
Magic or Madness is about fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino. Reasons lived all her life in the outback with her mother,
Sarafina, on the run from her evil grandmother, Esmeralda. Esmeralda believes in magic and practices horrifying dark rituals.
But when Sarafina suffers a mental breakdown, Reason is sent to the one place she fears mostEsmeraldas house in Sydney.
Nothing about the house or Esmeralda is what Reason expected. For the first time she finds herself questioning her mothers
teachings. Then when she walks through Esmeraldas back door in Sydney and finds herself on a New York City street, Reason
is forced to face the truth. Magic is real. And Reason is magic.
Magic or Madness won the 2007 Andre Norton Award. It was shorlisted for the Ethel Turner Award, one of the New South
Wales Premiers Literary Awards for 2006, as well as an Aurealis Award for best Australian YA book and a Ditmar Award for
best Science Fiction or Fantasy novel. It was also nominated for The Teen Services Division of the Michigan Library
Associations Thumbs Up Award. Magic or Madness was a best book of the year selection for School Library Journal, Tayshas
(the Young Adult Round Table of the Texas Libary Association), the Australian childrens literature magazine, Magpies, as well
as making the ALA (American Library Association) 2006 Best Books for Young Adults list, the Locus Recommended Reading List
and the Bank Street best teen books of the year list.
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Larbalestier, Justine – (Magic or Madness #2) – Magic Lessons

Young Adult, Fantasy; Magic
Narrated by Alison Larkin
Unabridged; 31 mp3’s; 64 kbps
(The second book in the Magic Or Madness Trilogy series)
Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful truth that she – like her mother, grandmother, and new friends Tom
and Jay-Tee – must face a choice between using the magic that lives in her blood and dying young, or refusing to use the magic
and losing 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 a stunning follow-up to Larbalestier’s debut novel, Magic or Madness, which earned multiple starred reviews
and a spot on the Locus 2005 Recommended Reading List, along with being named a Best Book of the Year by School Library
Journal and the Young Adult Round Table of the TLA
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Larbalestier, Justine – (Magic or Madness #3) – Magic’s Child

YA; Fantasy; Magic
Conclusion to Magic or Madness Trilogy
Narrated by Alison Larkin
mp3; 37 parts; unabridged
Magic’s Child
(The third book in the Magic Or Madness Trilogy series)
(2007)
A novel by Justine Larbalestier
In the third and final installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, only Reason can find answers within her family’s magic to
save everyone that matters most to her.
Magic’s Child is the fantastically gripping conclusion to a trilogy that launched to multiple starred reviews, earning spots on
the 2006 BBYA final list, and the Locus 2005 and 2006 Recommended Reading Lists.
Review:
” strong conclusion to a compelling trilogy, and the epilogue offers a suitable twist and perhaps a chance to rejoin Reason in
the future.” School Library Journal
Review:
crackling blend of fantastic adventure and soap-opera angst . . . Adolescent readers will be left pondering their own hard
choices.
Kirkus Reviews
Review:
A thrilling, heartrending, and thoroughly satisfying conclusion to the best fantasy trilogy I’ve read in years.
John Green, author of Looking for Alaska
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