Tricks And Treats

The Turtles find out the Purple Dragons have stolen candy from kids.

There is a big Halloween Party at the Gotham City Museum, and Harley Quinn sees the party as an opportunity to steal some of the Museum's treasures--and it is up to Batman and Nightwing to prevent her from unleashing chaos on the innocent party guests.

A Halloween costume party for a group of Magi just wouldn’t be the same without an interruption by the forces of darkness. But Amanda will have her night of tricks and treats, even if it means fighting in costume. After a long absence from Earth, Amanda returns to New York on a more permanent basis. Keen to reconnect with her friends, she comes up with the idea of a costume party on Halloween. The plans are laid, and a house is booked in Salem for some seasonal fun and games with all her old friends. But elsewhere, some local dark Magi have other ideas for All Hallows Eve and plan to take advantage of the newly accessible spirit realm to summon a Denzin of the Aetheric. Amanda and friends must deal with this new threat before it hurts anyone if she’s going to stand any chance of going trick or treating. But she’s never encountered a spirit like this before, and it might be more than a match for her… This is a short tale of Halloween fun, magic and adventure in the Magi Saga universe.

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Xiara Evora’s job as the Guardian of Nox is more complex than she’d ever anticipated. Not that she’d applied for the role. Her backstory is to blame, so she brought this on herself. She’d decided she was a hunter of monsters and bad guys and it had become her entire existence. Nox, otherwise known as the City of Night, is a hodgepodge of human magic users, vampires, shifters, fae beings and various other types of monsters. None of them get along well, which is why the city is divided into five different Districts. Xiara patrols them all in her effort to keep the peace, except for the Demon District that lies in the catacombs beneath Nox. Only someone with a death wish would enter their domain without an invitation. When a new type of being enters Nox, things soon begin to change. Although there are a lot of Night Cursed deities, they aren’t real. They’re just pale imitations and they have little power. Xiara has a feeling that the minor god is going to become far more of a pest than he first appears. The delicate balance between the Districts is already unstable. The last thing the City of Night needs is for a trickster to shake things up. If he breaks too many laws, the Immortal Triumvirate will order her to use her trusty staff to end his existence. Not even a true deity can survive Wrath’s deathly power.

When Harley Quinn crashes a Halloween Party at the Gotham City Museum, Batman and Nightwing must find a way to defeat her . . . Tricks and Treats! Will the heroes save the day? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for young readers.

As Halloween approaches, Mrs. Peters puts the Pee Wees to work earning their treats by writing scary stories, making costumes, and bringing food to the local food bank -- all for the less fortunate kids in town.