Children's Fiction Fantasy & Magic
Third Times the Charm
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2007
- Category
- Fantasy & Magic
- Recommended Reading age
- 9 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897235201
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $12.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
A spell-binding tale combining a fascination with magic, a bit of sleuthing, and the charm of adolescent antics with a unique slant on historical witch-hunts.
Third Times The Charm brings together three estranged orphans who, under the protection of their great aunt Abadelle, must find their place in one of the most powerful and esteemed witch families; the Dramsmits. But their transformation from lost waifs into upper class gentry, with its benefits of a regal manor and servants, comes with new responsibility. To protect their arcane lineage from the dark forces that murdered their parents and grandmother, Sharron, Wally and Chip must combine their fledgling power and honour their familial bond.
About the author
Robert Howell has taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, since 1980. He has taught property in the first-year program since that time, but in 1985 he focused his research and primarily taught intellectual property law and policy. The impact of technological change led him to expand his specialization into telecommunications law and policy, and to private international law, initially its linkage with technology and intellectual property but, since 2003, across all dimensions of this subject. Professor Howell has also done research on and taught courses in managing intellectual property and he has presented summer term programs in intellectual property law, including the International Intellectual Property Summer Program from 2002 to 2007, alternating in venue between Victoria and Oxford.
Professor Howell has published nationally and internationally in his areas of specialization and has organized and participated in national and international conferences and seminars. In 1999 he co-authored (with Linda Vincent and Michael Manson) a national coursebook — Intellectual Property Law, Cases and Materials; and in 1998 and 2002 he completed Reports on Database Protection and Canadian Laws for Industry Canada and Canadian Heritage. In 2008, Professor Howell was appointed for a five-year term on the Board of the British Columbia Law Institute, the principal law reform entity in British Columbia.
Excerpt: Third Times the Charm (by (author) Robert Howell)
Waking with the dawn, Sharron just knew this was going to be the worst day of her life. Yesterday Mrs Ticktea told her that someone from her family would come to claim her. It was not as if she really liked it at Mrs Ticktea's home for unwanted girls. The work was hard, most of the other girls teased her, the food was barely okay and her bed in the dustiest corner of the attic was always full of spiders. But at least it was a place she had become used to. She had been there for almost a year. That was the most she had ever stayed at one place for as long as she could remember. And she had lived for almost twelve years. But that was about to end. A social worker had come to see Mrs.Ticktea with a story about some aunt from the distant side of her family who had tracked her down and was arranging to have her taken to her new home. When her parents had died in a car crash nine years ago she had been sent from one foster family to another. When she was old enough to understand, she had been told that her parents had come from England and had left no way of contacting anyone from her family. That is why it came as a complete surprise to hear that an aunt had discovered her whereabouts and was going to claim her, as if she were an heirloom that had been inherited. And worse yet she was being moved from her long time home of Chicago to another country. For heavens sake they were moving her all the way to Canada. From what she had been told they were not even civilised there. And they talk funny.