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Vios
Since: Feb, 2012
19th May, 2017 04:33:04 PM
Could it be The Man who was Magic, by Paul Gallico?
Randallw201238
Since: Sep, 2012
26th May, 2017 06:58:50 AM
Sorry to be late. I forgot to check back. That sounds very much like what I was looking for. Thank you.
This was a novel around the early '80s, I heard it during story time in primary school. There's this city full of magicians and this new arrival does magic tricks. The other magicians can't figure out how he does the tricks, and he doesn't understand what there is to figure out since unlike the others he is doing real magic. I think it was a Christian novel because I was at a Christian private school and I think the point of the story was to believe in miracles, not deceitful trickery.