Magic is a very, very strange thing. Archie Green is quite sure of that. It's hard not to feel like a madman, burying an old book in compost to repair it. Or dodging a book that flew by - no, no one threw it, it flies, because she wants to. So when the books started talking to Archie, he wasn't too surprised. But alarmed. Books complained to him that someone was stealing their magic. But why doesn't any adult know about it? Can only Archie hear the voices of books? So it is Archie who has to deal with this case?