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Lucy Lancaster Has a Secret
(Lucy Lancaster #1)
Author
Illustrator
Priscilla Burris
Publication Date
January 07, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction / 2nd − 3rd
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Description
Lucy Lancaster, Heidi Heckelbeck's best friend, discovers her own magic in this first book in a chapter book series full of magical mishaps and everyday childhood adventures.
Lucy Lancaster is good at being a lot of things. She's a best friend, a stellar student, and a budding Super Flag Tag athlete. But there is one thing she hadn't planned on being: magic!
One day, mayhem breaks out after Lucy develops a mysterious case of the hiccups that have the magical power to make her dreams and nightmares come true. Luckily, a fellow witch lends a hand, and Lucy learns how to cast her very first spell and get things back under control!
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Lucy Lancaster chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
Publication date
January 07, 2025
Classification
Fiction
Page Count
128
ISBN-13
9781665963978
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Little Simon
Series
Lucy Lancaster
BISAC categories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV045000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV045000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Chapter Books
Library of Congress categories
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ALA/Booklist
Books are magic, and Lucy’s hiccups surely won’t spell trouble for long!
Kirkus
This series spinoff still brings the magic.
School Library Journal
Gr 1-4-Lucy Lancaster looks and acts like an average second grader. She is smart, a good friend, and an expert at Super Flag Tag. Lucy also has a very special secret that she discovers accidentally. When she learns that students will be teaming up to watch a caterpillar transform into a butterfly, Lucy wants to be paired with best friend Heidi. Instead, she is partnered with Bryce Beltran, and the two girls are not happy. When Bryce says Tony is a boring name for a caterpillar, Lucy gets upset and starts to hiccup. Suddenly, Bryce thinks it's a great name for a handsome caterpillar. Strange events continue to happen throughout the day, each one after a case of the hiccups. Could something magical be happening to Lucy? Like the "Heidi Hecklebeck" books, this series opener is perfect for early and reluctant readers. The format is a great intro to chapter books: vocabulary is simple but includes some challenging words, the fun stories are interesting, and the chapters are an ideal length to hold attention. The illustrations are full of animation and expression. This is a good read-aloud, even for youngsters to read to their adults. VERDICT Early readers will be looking forward to reading Lucy's next adventure.
Copyright 2024 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Willow Coven
Willow Coven cast her first spell at six years old, when she tried to transform her bowl of cereal into a towering stack of pancakes. The spell didn't work, but it did awaken her lifelong love for all things magical and mystical. Willow lives in New York City, where she lives next door to a café that serves chocolate chip pancakes with raspberry jam. Priscilla Burris is the illustrator and author-illustrator of many books for children. She attributes her love of children's books and library visits to the East Los Angeles Library. Priscilla loves her role of creating characters and stories for readers everywhere. She lives in sunny Arizona, where she finds the sunrises and sunsets awe-inspiring.
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