The Golden Telescope

Author Tracy Partridge-Johnson makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a magical world of time-travel mystery and danger. Perfect for fans of J.K. Rowling Rick Riordan and Philip Pullman.. Looking down at his hands he could see the telescope grasped in both of them but to his surprise those weren't his hands he was gazing at. They were much larger than his own and older with hair on the knuckles and a gold ring with a big black stone displayed prominently on the ring finger of the right hand.. Jack Mac Paidin has never even thought about magic when he touches a golden telescope that reveals his newly awakened powers. Raised by his conspiring aunt and uncle who have been waiting for this moment his entire life Jack is shocked to learn he comes from a long line of magic workers who want to use his abilities for their own evil purposes. Then a mysterious butler named Arthur Loyal shows up using a magic traveling hat. He shares clues about Jack's incredible birthright. From an excentric hat-making grandfather to his duped older brother and a grandmother lost in time. Jack finds himself thrust into a mystical adventure filled with danger and surprises at every turn!