The Books of Magic #3: The Children's Crusade (MSR)

Chapter One

I wish I could tell Molly all of what's going on. But how can I? I can't exactly say "Sorry, Moll, but I've been kind of busy being attacked by weird and not always human strangers and finding out my dad's not my dad but actually this bird guy, and, oh yes, there was that little bit there where I nearly died but saved all of Faerie."

Still, she's the one I usually tell everything to—everything I can, that is. The other stuff, well, that's between me and you. Oh man! Now I'm talking to a bloody journal!

Anyway.

She was really great when I went to her with that big news—the dad-not-being-my-dad part. Only what I haven't told her about is the magic. And that's the biggest whammy of them all. So while she knows that my mother was pregnant when she married Dad—I mean, Mr. Hunter—she doesn't know that my real father was a guy who could turn into a bird. Or that I've been back and forth between worlds, visiting the land of Faerie, where my real father lives.

Tim looked down at his journal and bit the end of his pencil. He scratched o ... read full excerpt from: The Books of Magic #3: The Children's Crusade ebook