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Sister Magic #6
Mabel On The Move
Little Sister. Big Trouble. Anne Mazer, author of the bestselling Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, reaches out to younger readers with this magical take on sibling rivalry.
It's a long ride to the beach town where her cousins live, but eight-year-old Mabel always loves a car trip. She's a champion packer, prepared for any emergency. But nothing could prepare her for what happens when her family meets up with Zoe and Mya. Mabel's cousins are the first people to see five-year-old Violet for what she really is. And, for the first time, Mabel's biggest worry isn't keeping Violet's secret under wraps. It's what her cousins see in her!
It is sibling rivalry with a magical twist!
It's a long ride to the beach town where her cousins live, but eight-year-old Mabel always loves a car trip. She's a champion packer, prepared for any emergency. But nothing could prepare her for what happens when her family meets up with Zoe and Mya. Mabel's cousins are the first people to see five-year-old Violet for what she really is. And, for the first time, Mabel's biggest worry isn't keeping Violet's secret under wraps. It's what her cousins see in her!
It is sibling rivalry with a magical twist!
128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 1, 2009
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About the author
Anne Mazer
73 books102 followersQuite a lot of Anne Mazer’s writing education took place while she was unconscious. Her parents wanted desperately to become writers and made themselves get up at 4:00 a.m. Every morning in order to have writing time before their three young children awoke. The first thing Anne heard every day was two big, noisy electric typewriters. The furious sound of typing was her childhood wake-up music. During the day, her parents endlessly discussed ideas, plot, and character, and before she was seven years old, Anne knew about revisions, first and second drafts, and rejection slips. It was like growing up in a twenty four hour, seven day a week writer’s boot camp.
In order to escape from her parents’ obsession with writing, Anne turned to books. She was an avid reader from an early age and credits her love of reading for her writing career. Her favorite works were fantasy, fairy tales, historical fiction, humor, realistic fiction, and adventure. Her other interests were language, art, history, and science. At the age of twelve, she wanted to be an actress, a ballerina and a nuclear physicist. These careers were rapidly eliminated as she realized that a) she couldn’t dance, b) she couldn’t act; and c) she hated math.
Although at the time Anne thought writing was nothing but a nuisance, she now considers herself very lucky to have grown up with two aspiring writers. She learned a lot about discipline, perseverance and dedication to a craft from witnessing her parents’ struggle. They eventually became successful and award-winning young adult novelists.
It took Anne a long time to figure out that she, too, wanted to be a writer. During early adulthood, she worked as an au pair, a bank teller, a pill bottle labeler, a receptionist, an English tutor, and an administrative assistant, as well as other jobs that she was ill-suited for. She attended three universities, spent several years in Paris, traveled throughout Europe, and worked in Boston and New York City.
Anne’s “eureka” moment about writing came while she prepared a research report for one of her bosses. As she lovingly polished each sentence, and meticulously organized the paragraphs, she realized that no one really cared how beautifully she wrote about the latest models of air-conditioners. Except her, of course.
Using her parents’ model of daily writing and discipline, she began to write. It took her seven years to publish her first book, a picture book inspired by her then two year old son, Max.
Anne is the mother of an adult son and daughter. Over the last twenty years, she has written over forty-five books for young readers. She has enough ideas to last for another quarter century and hopes that she will be writing for a very long time.
Fun Facts About Anne Mazer
Her favorite foods are popcorn, rice pudding and blueberries.
When she was a kid, she would sometimes read up to ten books a day.
If she had magic powers, she'd choose invisibility.
She painted the rooms in her house yellow, orange, and violet.
One of her favorite childhood books was The Twilight of Magic, by Hugh Lofting.
When Anne was a teenager, her room was so messy that she needed a map to get from the door to the bed. (sort of)
In school Anne often flunked her favorite creative subjects, like writing and art.
In order to escape from her parents’ obsession with writing, Anne turned to books. She was an avid reader from an early age and credits her love of reading for her writing career. Her favorite works were fantasy, fairy tales, historical fiction, humor, realistic fiction, and adventure. Her other interests were language, art, history, and science. At the age of twelve, she wanted to be an actress, a ballerina and a nuclear physicist. These careers were rapidly eliminated as she realized that a) she couldn’t dance, b) she couldn’t act; and c) she hated math.
Although at the time Anne thought writing was nothing but a nuisance, she now considers herself very lucky to have grown up with two aspiring writers. She learned a lot about discipline, perseverance and dedication to a craft from witnessing her parents’ struggle. They eventually became successful and award-winning young adult novelists.
It took Anne a long time to figure out that she, too, wanted to be a writer. During early adulthood, she worked as an au pair, a bank teller, a pill bottle labeler, a receptionist, an English tutor, and an administrative assistant, as well as other jobs that she was ill-suited for. She attended three universities, spent several years in Paris, traveled throughout Europe, and worked in Boston and New York City.
Anne’s “eureka” moment about writing came while she prepared a research report for one of her bosses. As she lovingly polished each sentence, and meticulously organized the paragraphs, she realized that no one really cared how beautifully she wrote about the latest models of air-conditioners. Except her, of course.
Using her parents’ model of daily writing and discipline, she began to write. It took her seven years to publish her first book, a picture book inspired by her then two year old son, Max.
Anne is the mother of an adult son and daughter. Over the last twenty years, she has written over forty-five books for young readers. She has enough ideas to last for another quarter century and hopes that she will be writing for a very long time.
Fun Facts About Anne Mazer
Her favorite foods are popcorn, rice pudding and blueberries.
When she was a kid, she would sometimes read up to ten books a day.
If she had magic powers, she'd choose invisibility.
She painted the rooms in her house yellow, orange, and violet.
One of her favorite childhood books was The Twilight of Magic, by Hugh Lofting.
When Anne was a teenager, her room was so messy that she needed a map to get from the door to the bed. (sort of)
In school Anne often flunked her favorite creative subjects, like writing and art.
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December 10, 2011
This book MABLE ON THE MOVE is a wonderful,interesting book.I Give the book five stars because it is so supising when Zoe hears mable is telling viloet to stop doing magic.nobody knew Vileot had magic exsept her sister Mable.A couple days after they went to a botanical gardens the four parents wanted to go to a special part so the four girls went to bugs.They went to all the bugs and finely they came to the last bug the dragonfly.vioet said she wanted to ride it.Mable said no.Then Mya said I want a icecraem sandwitch so Zoe said yes.Then all of a suden. Mable said whats that fling in the air.It was Viloet fling the air on the dragonfly!!!!!!!!!!
January 16, 2010
I like Violet does magic in front of their cousins, but it's supposed to be a secret because her mom has a brother that had magic and he caused a lot of trouble with it. So Violet's mom doesn't want to talk, hear or say anything about magic.
October 19, 2013
I found this book REALLY interesting. I liked the fact the while family went on vacation with Mabel/Zoe and Violet/Mya. I found it really interesting how Mabel finds out she has magic too(continued from her piano recital). Even Zoe notes her inner magical potential!
June 22, 2018
Out of all of the Sister Magic books, this was definitely one of my favorites. I especially the twist about how Mabel finds out she has magic like Violet. The only thing I really disliked about it was the abrupt ending.
December 12, 2011
this is another very old book that i had bought so i thought id get it over with and read it was cute and fun and i liked the ending.
May 28, 2012
i need to read sister magic
March 23, 2021
What happened in this book was that this little girl named Violet was annoying to her big sister Mable in their trip to the beach since Violet said that she could do magic. Throughout their trip to the beach a lot of things happened because the two sisters could not get along. The main character of the book was Violet, she is very curious, naughty and intelligent. This book did change my life because it taught me to let my sister get her own space. I think I would recommend this book to Pookie since I think it also represents a little bit of her life.
October 2, 2013
This is the sixth book in the Sister Magic series of books by Anne Mazer.
We've enjoyed reading the books in this series and I think our girls can relate to the relationship between Mabel and her mischievous little sister. Our youngest daughter is the same age as Mabel, but some of Mabel's schemes and worries make her quite precocious for an eight-year-old. Still, the way that she's becoming a bit more accepting of her sister's magical abilities is an interesting twist.
We liked that Mabel is learning about her own powers, even if they aren't exactly what she would've wanted.
Overall, it's a fun story and we enjoyed reading it together. This appears to be the last book in the series, and we are a bit disappointed, since we would've liked to have read more about these unusual sisters.
We've enjoyed reading the books in this series and I think our girls can relate to the relationship between Mabel and her mischievous little sister. Our youngest daughter is the same age as Mabel, but some of Mabel's schemes and worries make her quite precocious for an eight-year-old. Still, the way that she's becoming a bit more accepting of her sister's magical abilities is an interesting twist.
We liked that Mabel is learning about her own powers, even if they aren't exactly what she would've wanted.
Overall, it's a fun story and we enjoyed reading it together. This appears to be the last book in the series, and we are a bit disappointed, since we would've liked to have read more about these unusual sisters.
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