Zach King: My Magical Life: A Middle Grade Adventure About Finding Powers and Friends for Kids (Ages 8-12)
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Zach King: My Magical Life: A Middle Grade Adventure About Finding Powers and Friends for Kids (Ages 8-12)

King, Zach

Why we picked it

Social media star Zach King translates his signature illusion magic into a debut novel about a fictional seventh-grader hunting for his powers, bundled with an app that animates the world of the story in vivid three dimensions.

Our review

Award-winning social media star Zach King brings his signature illusion magic to a middle-grade adventure, following fictional middle-schooler Zach as he searches for his magical powers while navigating public school. Complete with a downloadable app that brings the story to animated 3D life, it blends novel, interactive app, and digital content creation into one experience that feels native to a generation raised on screens.

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Award-winning digital media star Zach King brings his unique brand of magic to the first installment of a lively, fun-filled trilogy about Zach, a middle schooler in search of his magical powers while navigating the crazy, confusing world of public school.Big Nate meets DanTDM in a debut middle grade adventure by social media superstar Zach King. The book comes complete with a code for a downloadable app that brings Zachs vibrant world to fully animated, three-dimensional life. Zach King: My Magical Life is also coming to theaters soon, as the project has been picked up by Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment.Everyone in Zach Kings family has a magical power. His father can turn back time, his sister can turn invisible, and his mother can transform any object into something else. And Zachwell, he hasnt found his magical power yet and his family is growing worried that hes been skipped.So his parents decide to stop homeschooling him in magical arts and send him instead to a regular middle school with regular kids. To Zach, its the worst news ever. Who wants to be ordinary when everyone around them is extraordinary?But Zach quickly learns that going to regular school with regular kids isnt all that bad. Who knew having real friends would be so much fun? And just when Zach least expects it, he discovers a pair of magical snapbacks that might just be the magical thing hes been looking for his whole life. The only thing standing in his way is the school bully, Tricia Stands. Shes determined to make sure Zach doesnt get more popular than she is, and so she plans a prank so awful, so evil, it could cause the biggest disaster Horace Greeley Middle School has ever seen.For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure, and DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal and anyone whos ever wondered where they belong, this is the perfect book for you.

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