Mattie:  An ordinary, everyday, maybe even humdrum type of eleven-year old fifth-grader in 1968 at Fairmount Grammar School in Hackensack, New Jersey. Read more...

Spyglass:  An entity from ancient times trapped in a heavy six-inch long, brass miniature telescope, the Spyglass through the eons of time tempts those with the lure of power.  Read more...

Eddie:  Eddie talks like he’s in the Army and sneaks around “camouflaging” himself on his “reconnaissance missions.”  Read more...

Geeta:  Geeta has an accent having moved to Hackensack from Bombay, India. She is very serious and looks just what you’d think an owl would look like if it turned into a girl.  Read more...

Herman Biddle:  Herman Biddle looks like a harmless old man working in the  Furniture Department of Sears. Biddle is in fact a wizard in hiding who holds the White Book of Magic.  Read more...

Uri Gneezy:  Born at the cusp of the centuries in Siberia in the time of the rule of the Russian Czars, the old and cadaverous Uri Gneezy — with a head like a cobra and glittering eyes, one blue and one green — is a servant of the Master of Darkness and holds the Black Book of Magic.  Read more...