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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nNew Feet For Old<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a peddler who wanders the countryside selling feet. He pushes his rickety cart from town to town, calling, “New feet for old! New feet for old!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, this peddler’s feet are special feet. He has kangaroo feet for people who want to jump over things. He has frog feet for folks who want a spring in their step. And he has cheetah feet for those who want to run as fast as the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But one day, the peddler receives an order he cannot fill. Or so he thinks…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Picture Book — Four Winds Press, Macmillan, 1992<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n ISBN 0-02-792371-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Great Zandor’s Hat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jen hates magic, and can you blame her? Her father, a third-rate illusionist, ran off years ago and she\u2019s stuck working at her Gigi\u2019s tiny magic shop in Chicago when she\u2019s not trying to survive high school. There\u2019s nothing magical about her life. Whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then she befriends an old man at a nursing home who just might<\/em> be the world\u2019s greatest magician. The only problem is he\u2019s lost his memory and can\u2019t remember who he is \u2013 or the centuries-old object he must protect. What little he tells her makes Jen realize that real magical items actually exist \u2013 and one well-dressed monster who\u2019s an expert at digging already has one of them. If he finds another, he can rule the earth. Or destroy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With no help in sight, Jen must abandon her ordinary life and jump headlong into a world of magic to save her friends and possibly the world from disaster. All she has going for her is a group of has-been magicians in moth-eaten tuxedos and an uneasy friendship with the most powerful magical item ever known. But it doesn\u2019t trust her, and it definitely doesn\u2019t like being woken up in the middle of the night. Young Adult novel, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Feet For Old There is a peddler who wanders the countryside selling feet. He pushes his rickety cart from town to town, calling, “New feet for old! New feet for old!” Now, this peddler’s feet are special feet. He has kangaroo feet for people who want to jump over things. He has frog feet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrettwaller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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