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Stevermer, Caroline.
MAGIC BELOW STAIRS
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2010
IL 3-6, RL 5.7
ISBN 0803734670
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 Frederick Lincoln is a good boy who works hard and does what he’s told. He’s living in an orphanage when he is selected to be a footboy for the local wizard. He will be living with the other servants below stairs. Unknown to Frederick is the fact that he is accompanied by a brownie whose name is Billy Bly. The wizard has forbidden any magical creatures in his home but that won’t stop Billy Bly. He doesn’t want to leave Frederick. More magic might be what they need as it is soon discovered that the manor is under a hidden curse-- a curse so deep and ugly that it may take all of them to break it. But , first, they have to find it.  (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award nominee, 2011-2012)
SUBJECTS:     Magic -- Fiction.
                        Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Wizards -- Fiction.
                        Household employees -- Fiction.
                        Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837 -- Fiction.
                        Fantasy.
 
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