"My mother named me Reason." Reason Cansino has lived fifteen years in the Australian outback with her mother, Sarafina. They're on the run from Reason's grandmother Esmeralda, who believes in magic and practices horrifying dark rituals. But when Sarafina suffers a mental breakdown, Reason is sent to the one place she fears most - Esmeralda's home in Sydney. Nothing about the house or Esmeralda is what Reason expected. Then, when she walks through Esmeralda's back door in Sydney and finds herself on a New York City street, Reason is forced to face the shocking truth. Magic is real. And Reason is magic.

Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has learned the painful truth that she - like her mother, grandmother, and new friends Tom and Jay-Tee - must face a choice between using the magic that lives in her blood and dying young, or refusing to use the magic and losing her mind. Now a new threat leaves Reason stranded alone in New York City, struggling to control a power she barely understands. But could the danger she faces also hold the key to saving her life? "Magic Lessons" is a stunning follow-up to Larbalestier's debut novel, "Magic or Madness, " which earned multiple starred reviews and a spot on the Locus 2005 Recommended Reading List, along with being named a Best Book of the Year by "School Library Journal" and the Young Adult Round Table of the TLA.

When her mother goes missing from the mental hospital in Sydney and her best friend is exhausted to the point of death from using all her magic, Reason Cansino turns to her own family's magic to save those she loves, in the third installment of a fantastical trilogy for young adults.

Reason Cansino isn't like other 15 year olds. For one thing, she's spent most of her life in the Australian Outback on the run from grandmother Esmeralda - a real life witch. For another, Reason got her ame because her mother, Sarafina, like it better than Logic or Rationality or Intellect - all good words representing the calm, ordered certainty that opposed Esmeralda's world. Suddenly Magic is real... and Reason is Magic! 566 Pages.