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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Blackspore is the shaman who summoned Marshall to Spectraland in the first place. He disappeared after the civil war and was presumed dead, until ''Legend of the Loudstone'', when [[spoiler:the protagonists find him on the small atoll where he's been stranded ever since he tried to teleport to Six Statess but didn't get far enough]].
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Blackspore is the shaman who summoned Marshall to Spectraland in the first place. He disappeared after the civil war and was presumed dead, until ''Legend of the Loudstone'', when [[spoiler:the protagonists find him on the small atoll where he's been stranded ever since he tried to teleport to Six Statess States but didn't get far enough]].
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Blackspore is the shaman who summoned Marshall to Spectraland in the first place. He disappeared after the civil war and was presumed dead, until ''Legend of the Loudstone'', when [[spoiler:the protagonists find him on the small atoll where he's been stranded ever since he tried to teleport to Six Realms Statess but didn't get far enough]].
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* BoxedCrook: In ''Mystery of the Moonfire'', Joel, Felicity, Thornleaf, and Fireflower go to Darkeye, a potion maker who's been imprisoned for almost two decades, to ask for his help making an all-purpose mind control antidote. Darkeye gives them the recipe and [[FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct vomits up the special ingredient]], and in exchange, the protagonists agree to arrange for his release if the antidote works.
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* WoundLicking: In ''Mystery of the Moonfire'', Felicity is scratched by a daggermole, leaving a long gash in her back. A swordcat licks the wound, causing it to slowly shrink and vanish.
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* PortalCut: In ''Mystery of the Moonfire'', Fireflower is about to take Joel and Felicity through the rift to Spectraland when Joel realizes that he left his tablet on. He reaches to turn it off, resulting in [[{{Fingore}} all the fingers on his right hand being cut off]] as the rest of his body is transported. Fireflower rushes him to the Wavemaker temple, where Auravine's magic is powerful enough to regenerate his fingers.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: No one in Spectraland has ever been able to leave the island. Once someone gets a certain distance from shore, hundred-foot waves will suddenly rise up, usually killing them. After the natives used Joel's explanation of aerodynamics to develop a flight spell, Fireflower tried to fly over the waves, but the farther she got from the island, the weaker the Aura got, until she fell into the ocean and almost drowned.
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* ParentWithNewParamour: In ''Mystery of the Moonfire'', Joel's mom starts dating his boss, Art. Joel likes Art, but still thinks it's pretty weird that they're dating.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', the protagonists become trapped for a few hours in Prism Valley, where the Aura behaves very differently than it does everywhere else. When they escape, they find that several days have passed in Spectraland.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', [[spoiler:Marshall]] sees to his shock that Joel can touch the fully-powered Songshell without getting burnt, which [[spoiler:Marshall]] couldn't. When he sees how powerful Joel is, he goes from trying to defeat him to begging him to join forces with him so they can conquer the world together. When that doesn't work, he suggests that they become bandmates so they can become the biggest rock stars of all time. Joel doesn't listen.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', the protagonists become trapped for a few hours in Prism Valley, where the Aura behaves very differently than it does everywhere else. When they escape, they find that several days have passed in Spectraland.
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* BrokenPedestal: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', [[spoiler:Joel and Felicity are horrified to learn that rather than being the brave hero who defeated the villainous Fourfoot, Marshall was actually summoned to Spectraland to fight in a civil war, and took advantage of the conflict to become high chief of the island's four villages. In order to preserve his position of power, he killed off all the other wavemakers and cast a spell that confused the people of Headsmouth so they wouldn't remember what he'd done.]]
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* UnwittingPawn: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', [[spoiler:Marshall tricks Joel and Felicity into thinking that they need to go on a quest for the Songshell to defeat the evil shaman Fourfoot. In fact, he wants to use the shell for his own evil purposes]].
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* BrokenPedestal: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', [[spoiler:Joel and Felicity are horrified to learn that rather than being the brave hero who defeated the villainous Fourfoot, Marshall was actually summoned to Spectraland to fight in a civil war, and took advantage of the conflict to become high chief of the island's four villages. In order to preserve his position of power, he killed off all the other wavemakers and cast a spell that confused the people of Headsmouth so they wouldn't remember what he'd done.]]
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', Felicity asks [[spoiler:Marshall]], "What about all the people you'll be hurting? Don't you care about that?" He replies that empathy is a foreign concept for him, just like it is for her. Felicity screams "I'm nothing like you!" because although she feels little empathy, she at least has morals.
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* ItAmusedMe: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', this is [[spoiler:Marshall Byle]]'s motive for wanting to steal all of Spectraland's Aura, the magical force that pervades the island, and return to Earth with his incredible powers. [[spoiler:Becoming a rock star]] failed to make him happy, but he's convinced that once he has the ability to turn the sky purple, or take out his bad moods by wiping out entire countries, he'll never be bored again. Felicity points out that after a while he'll get used to his powers and be as dissatisfied as ever, but he doesn't think that will happen for a long time.
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* HungryJungle: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', Joel, Felicity, Fireflower, and Darkeye have to travel through the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jungle of Darkness]], as they don't have the magic to get into the safe tunnel beneath the jungle. The area is infested with ferocious predators, including one creature that resembles a giant walking anglerfish, which breaks their mounts' legs before they manage to defeat it.
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* FiveFiveFive: Joel works at Art's Guitars, which has one of these numbers.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Felicity is highly unpopular both in her mainstream classes and in the special classes, where she's the only girl. Eventually she decided that, as she tells Joel, "If people think I'm a witch, I'm just gonna go with that and actually ''be'' a witch." She acts rude and abrasive towards everyone, and it's several weeks before she and Joel start to become friends.
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* PetGetsTheKeys: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', Joel, Felicity, and Fireflower are all tied up and given a paralyzing potion. Fireflower tells Sammy to get her wavebow, which he does. Thanks to a lifetime of training, Fireflower is able to use her wavebow without touching it as long as it's nearby, and she uses magic to cure the poison, untie their bonds, and fetch Joel and Felicity's wavebows.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: Joel lives with his mom and his ten-year-old sister Taylor in a small apartment. His mom works at a restaurant and struggles to pay rent. After she's laid off in ''Secret of the Songshell'', the family almost loses their apartment, and Joel has to sell his guitar in order to pay that month's rent.
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Joel, a sixteen-year-old aspiring rock star on the autism spectrum, is taken by his favorite musician Marshall Byle to Spectraland, an island in another world. Joel has the right neurology to use music to make magic effects, and Marshall wants to train him, along with Felicity, another autistic teenager from Earth, so that they can become great songwriters and bring joy to the world with their music.
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* DeadGuyJunior: In ''Secret of the Songshell'', a squirrel-like creature called a silvertail starts following the protagonists around. Joel names him Sammy, after a beagle who got hit by a car when he was seven.
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* DisappearedDad: Joel has barely seen his dad since his parents divorced when he was ten and he, his sister, and his mom moved from Hawai'i to Seattle.
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* PlantPerson: The Spectraland natives have green skin with leaf-like protrusions. Marshall describes them as "almost as if someone combined human and plant DNA."
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Marshall has manipulated the Aura in Spectraland so that when the natives speak their language, Joel and Felicity hear them in English, and vice versa. The spell doesn't affect lip movements, making life look like a badly-dubbed movie.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Joel and Felicity can spend weeks in Spectraland, but Marshall assures them they'll be home on time for dinner.
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''Joel Suzuki'' is a series of young adult fantasy novels by Brian Tashima.
Joel, a sixteen-year-old aspiring rock star on the autism spectrum, is taken by his favorite musician Marshall Byle to Spectraland, an island in another world. Joel has the right neurology to use music to make magic effects, and Marshall wants to train him, along with Felicity, another teenager from Earth, so that they can become great songwriters and bring joy to the world with their music.
The books in the series:
## ''Secret of the Songshell'' (2012)
## ''Mystery of the Moonfire'' (2015)
## ''Legend of the Loudstone'' (2017)
## ''Fable of the Fatewave'' (2018)
## ''Ballad of the Bluerock'' (2020)
## ''Dance of the Darkeye'' (2022)
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!!The ''Joel Suzuki'' series contains examples of:
* AlienSky: Spectraland has two moons, which are closer to the horizon than Earth's.
* DramaticSitdown: When Joel comes home at the beginning of the first book, his mom tells him to sit down before she breaks the news that they won't be able to afford their apartment anymore.
* FakingTheDead: Marshall faked his death in a tour bus accident so he could live in Spectraland, away from the stresses of fame.
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Joel, a sixteen-year-old aspiring rock star on the autism spectrum, is taken by his favorite musician Marshall Byle to Spectraland, an island in another world. Joel has the right neurology to use music to make magic effects, and Marshall wants to train him, along with Felicity, another teenager from Earth, so that they can become great songwriters and bring joy to the world with their music.
The books in the series:
## ''Secret of the Songshell'' (2012)
## ''Mystery of the Moonfire'' (2015)
## ''Legend of the Loudstone'' (2017)
## ''Fable of the Fatewave'' (2018)
## ''Ballad of the Bluerock'' (2020)
## ''Dance of the Darkeye'' (2022)
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!!The ''Joel Suzuki'' series contains examples of:
* AlienSky: Spectraland has two moons, which are closer to the horizon than Earth's.
* DramaticSitdown: When Joel comes home at the beginning of the first book, his mom tells him to sit down before she breaks the news that they won't be able to afford their apartment anymore.
* FakingTheDead: Marshall faked his death in a tour bus accident so he could live in Spectraland, away from the stresses of fame.
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