title: Magical Kids: The Invisible Boy and The Strongest Girl in the World
author:  Sally Gardner 
description: Sally Gardner grew up and still lives in London. Being dyslexic, she did not learn to read or write until she was fourteen and had been thrown out of several schools, labeled unteachable, and sent to a school for maladjusted children. Despite this, she gained a degree with highest honors at a leading London art college, followed by a scholarship to a theater school, and then went on to become a very successful costume designer, working on some notable productions. After the births of twin daughters and a son, she started first to illustrate and then to write picture books and chapter books, usually with fairytale- or otherwise magical subject matter. She has been called an idiosyncratic genius by Londons <i>Sunday Times.</i> <i>I, Coriander</i> is her first book for older readers, and she is currently working on a second.
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  Morgan is trapped and powerless.
  
  The seventh child of the seventh child has always been a girl. Until Morgan
  Vallentyn was born. Because he’s male he can’t access the magical powers that
  should have been his . In order to attain his destiny, he first has to escape
  his home and find the source of his power – in the most unexpected of places.
  
    
  
  Adriana would give up everything for her freedom.
  
  Born to paint the natural world with unprecedented passion and vision, Adriana
  Hayden is bound by the laws of 19th century English society to her scheming
  guardian. But after meeting the handsome and mysterious Morgan, her world
  begins to open to enchanted possibilities she could never have imagined.
  
    
  
  The only way to fulfill their destinies is for each to unlock the powers of
  the other – through the magic in the storm.
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
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  By
  
  Meredith Bond
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright, January, 2012, Merry Banerji. All rights rese