The Un-Magician Christopher Golden
&
Thomas E. Sniegoski

The Un-Magician

First Published 2004
240 Pages

ISBN: 0689866615

Reading Level: 9-12 years

Synopsis
The world the authors have created in OutCast is one in which everything - fire, light, transportation, cooking, even opening doors - is run via magic. Everyone in the world is connected to magic, with mages more adept, and the most skilled running nations and congregations. Everyone can do magic - that is, except for one boy.

The most dangerous boy in the world?

Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of his birth, he is fascinated by the current of magic that fuels the world, and mesmerized by the buildings and orbs that hang weightlessly in the sky.

But he is also marked for death.

Assassins are watching his every move, and the government wants him destroyed. Timothy can't imagine what threat he could possibly pose; after all, he wields no power in this world.

Or does he?