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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780441011773 ISBN: 0441011772 Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: May 25, 2004 Publisher: Ace Release Date: May 25, 2004 Studio: Ace Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: The LaZelle family of southern California has a secret: they can do magic. Real magic. As a teenager, a LaZelle undergoes "the Transition"--a severe illness that will either kill him or leave him with magical powers. If he's lucky, he gains a talent like shape-changing or wish-granting. If he's unlucky, he never experiences Transition. If he's especially unlucky, he undergoes Transition late, which increases his chances of dying. And if he survives, he will bear the burden of a dark, dangerous magic: the ability to cast only curses. And curse he must, for when a LaZelle doesn't use his magic, it kills him. In Nina Kiriki Hoffman's A Fistful of Sky, Gypsum LaZelle is unique among her brothers and sisters: she has not undergone Transition. She resigns herself to a mundane, magic-bereft existence as a college student. Then one weekend, when her family leaves her home alone, she becomes gravely ill... --Cynthia Ward Product Description: Gypsum LaZelle is the middle child in a gifted family of witches and warlocks. But unlike her siblings, she has no gift to call her own. Until she wakes from a fever--and discovers that she possesses a strange and frightening power. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Very imaginativeGypsum LaZelle is a misfit in her family. All of her siblings have come into their magical powers, inherited from their beautiful mother, and she has resigned herself to the fact that like her dad she'll have to live her life without the assistance of magic. More than a fantasy, this book delves into the dynamics of this family which is why I find it so interesting (though the magical aspect is very imaginative as well). Gypsum's mother is beautiful, perfect and very controlling. She does some unforgivable ... Read More Rating:  - Really GreatI loved this book, my mom found it at value village and it took me a while to actually pick it up but once i did i coundlt put it back down, so amazingly imagitive and beautiful. I was finished within two days , such a easy read. Just alot of fun , now i want to raed her other books Rating: - interestingi flew through this book, it took me literally an evening to read through it. i thought it was very fun and engaging and was sucessful at bringing magic into a modern setting (something that can be more difficult than is seems apparently). overall it was very enjoyable. a great, light read. Rating: - Great, Wonderful, FantasticYou really don't want to put the book down to eat. The author makes magic real and the story and characters are delightful. I borrowed it from the library and read it three times before I was willing to return it. It's what I call a Keeper. One I return to in a month or a year and read again for years on end. There are only a few authors that have some books I consider that good, Mercedes Lackey, David Eddings, Roger Zelazny. It's nice to find another author that is ... Read More Rating: - Staying In The FamilyGypsum LaZelle's whole family has magical talents, manifesting around puberty. She's patient when her older siblings turn, but then her younger siblings turn as well, and she gives up hope. She's just getting comfortable with her life and her place in her family when changes start happening to her. Great set up--her whole family is fascinating, and they are all such different characters. The family interactions were really interesting: loving and good natured oftentimes, but with undertones of menace ... Read More 
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