The Magic Thief

We have been reading this book by Sarah Prineas!  It is sooo good and Kate is loving it.  We can hardly stop reading when it is time to go to bed.  Kate and Daddy made this wizard's book together while I was sleeping in.  This is the passage from the book that inspired Kate:

   "The book had a worn leather cover and raggedy-edged pages and bulged with paper markers, dried leaves, diagrams in faded ink, fragments of maps-all bound together by a thick leather strap with a lock in it.
    Well, well, Nevery muttered to himself.  "I thought they would have burned this."  He pulled out his locus magicalicus, whispered a spell word, and, with a little pop, the lock opened." 

Kate's locus magicalicus(magic stone) opening the lock