Paint by Magic [Paperback]

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 looksexactlylike 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?

Eleven-year-old Connor has to discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom in this time-travel mystery from award-winning author Kathryn Reiss.

Reiss' eerie time travel mystery will snag readers on the first page and hold them until the last. --Booklist

A palette with daubs of time travel, artists, magic, evil, and possession paints an intriguing mystery. --Kirkus Reviews

KATHRYN REISSis the author of many acclaimed time-travel mystery novels for teens. She lives in northern California.

What's Wrong with This Picture?

There was no mistaking it. Something was wrong. It was like when you look at one of those what's-wrong-with-this-picture puzzles. You know something is weird-but what? Then you look a little longer and you start to see stuff you hadn't noticed before, like a dagger hiding in a tree. Or a face in the shadows on a mountain.

Weirder still if you find your own mom staring out of the picture.

That's what happened to me. More or less. I was coming home from school one day last fall, a whole two hours earlier than usual because my after-school computer class had been cancelled at the last second when the teacher got sick. It felt strange to be taking the early bus, knowing there'd be time just to hang out on my own. I was making plans, like how I'd bring a whole bag of chips and a huge bowl of salsa up to my room alóä