Paint by Magic

By Kathryn Reiss

Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom—she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was evenborn.

Connor gets his chance to break the evil link between the past and the present when he is mysteriously whisked back in time to the 1920s. But can he save his mom—and himself—before it's too late?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Aug 1, 2003
• ISBN: 9780547705255

Kathryn Reiss

Kathryn Reiss lives in a rambling nineteenth-century house in Northern California, where she is always hoping to discover a secret room or time portal to the past. She is the author of many award-winning novels of suspense for children and teens, among them Time Windows, Dreadful Sorry, Paint by Magic, PaperQuake, and Sweet Miss Honeywell’s Revenge. When not working on a new book, she teaches English and creative writing at Mills College and enjoys spending time with her husband, seven children, and many cats and dogs.

Reviews for Paint by Magic

[rac103hel · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book is about a boy named Connor who travels back in time to save his mother. Has some interesting information about a group of artists known as the magi. It was interesting to read about the models and the antagonist was scary.