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  SARAH PRINEAS lives in the midst of the corn in rural Iowa and can usually be found writing fantasy novels on a stealthy silver MacBook Air called Dash. Prineas’s Magic Thief series introduced readers to the irascible wizard Nevery and his gutterboy apprentice, Connwaer. Sarah holds a PhD in English literature and recently taught honors seminars on fantasy and science fiction literature at the University of Iowa. She has an amazing dragon action-figure collection and occasionally bakes biscuits (although she says hers never seem to turn out as tasty as Benet’s do in The Magic Thief). She is also the author of Winterling, Summerkin, and Moonkind.

  Sarah is married to John Prineas, a physics professor, which comes in handy when she’s writing about magic. They are the parents of Maud and Theo. You can visit Sarah online at www.sarah-prineas.com.

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  Cover art © 2014 by Antonio Javier Caparo

  COPYRIGHT

  The Magic Thief: Home

  Text copyright © 2014 by Sarah Prineas

  Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Antonio Javier Caparo

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Prineas, Sarah.

  Home / by Sarah Prineas ; illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo. — First edition.

  pages cm. — (Magic thief ; book 4)

  Summary: “Young wizard’s apprentice Connwaer disguises himself as a chimney swift in order to identify who has been stealing the locus stones in Wellmet”— Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-220954-2 (hardback)

  [1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Wizards—Fiction. 3. Apprentices—Fiction. 4. Fantasy.] I. Caparo, Antonio Javier, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.P93646Hom 2014

  2014010023

  [Fic]—dc23

  CIP

  AC

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  EPUB Edition JULY 2014 ISBN 9780062209573

  14 15 16 17 18 LP/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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