The Book of Masks (Vol. 1)

Table of Contents (Vol. 1)

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1. "The Fake Book" 
--2. "Making a Mask" 
----3. "The Solo Magician" 
------4. "Myself the Guinea Pig" 
--------5. "The High Cost of a Deeper Education"  [continues]
--------5. "Making People the New-Fashioned Way" 
----------6. "The Mash-Up" 
----------7. "The Offspring of Two Cousins" 
----------8. "The Whole New You" 
----------9. "Clothing Makes the Man" 
----------10. "Chang and Change" 
----------11. "The Inside, Looking Out" 
----------12. "More Pieces for a Homemade Puzzle" 
----------13. "Personalities on Parade" 
----------14. "Mindjack" 
----------15. "Coffee Nerves" 
----------16. "A Warm Hand in the Cool Darkness" 
----------17. "A Date With Himself" 
------4. "My Brother the Guinea Pig" 
------4. "My Friend the Guinea Pig" 
--------5. "Concussing Caleb" 
----------6. "The High Cost of Scientific Advance" 
----------7. "Thefts, Identity and Otherwise" 
----------8. "I'm My Own Best Friend!" 
----------9. "The Phony Party Crasher" 
----------10. "Hangover for an Absent Party Crasher" 
------------11. "The Graveyard Thief"  [continues]
------------11. "The Female of the Species" 
--------5. "Concussing Keith" 
--------5. "Stonerhenge" 
----------6. "Butterfingers" 
------------7. "The Start of an Unlikely Partnership" 
------------8. "Sealing the Deal" 
------------9. "The Boy with Two Faces" 
------------10. "The Mother of All Suggestions" 
------------11. "Dark Talk on a Dark Night" 
------------12. "Sons and Lovers" 
------------13. "The Hangover" 
------------14. "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of" 
------------15. "Operation: Fake Mom" 
------------16. "Do As I Do" 
------------17. "You, Himself, and Her" 
------------18. "A Slapfight Among Friends" 
------------19. "When Friendships Collide" 
------------20. "People Who Do What They're Told -- Or Don't" 
------------21. "Of Experiments and Test Subjects" 
----------6. "Five Final Chances" 
------------7. "Jamming with Javits" 
------------8. "The Kind of People Who Have Special Plans " 
------------9. "The Counterfeit Asshole" 
------------10. "The Girls at the Dairy Queen" 
--------5. "The Leftovers" 
----------6. "The Stage, Your World?" 
------------7. "Masks and Rough Play" 
------------8. "Help! There's a Girl in My Bed!" 
------------9. "Poor Boys" 
--------------10. "Mind Over Money" 
----------------11. "A Return to the Scene of the Crime" 
----------------12. "The Cheerleader from Outer Space" 
----------------13. "Maria Meets Magic" 
----------------14. "Show and Tell at the Old School" 
----------------15. "How to Get to Know Someone" 
----------------16. "The Girl Who Wants to Be You" 
----------------17. "At Home as Maria Vasquez" 
----------------18. "Maria's Crush" 
--------------10. "The Unusual Suspects" 
----------------11. "The Video Stars"  [continues]
----------6. "And Then There Were Two" 
------------7. "Panic in F Wing" 
------------8. "So It Turns Out You Can Be Too Careful" 
------------9. "When Charity Begins at Home" 
------------10. "Boxed and Outfoxed" 
------------11. "The Winding Trail" 
------------12. "Follow the Bouncing Box" 
------------13. "Explaining Yourself" 
------------14. "The Junior Partners" 
------------15. "Fail Safes" 
------------16. "Fears Unmasked" 
----------6. "Tackling a Teacher"  [continues]
----------6. "Cheerleaders and Charity" 
------------7. "Assertiveness" 
--------------8. "Of Paralysis and Procrastination" 
--------------9. "Ballsy and Ballsier" 
--------------10. "Masking Mia" 
--------------11. "The Girl in the Palm of Your Hand" 
------------7. "A Charity Drive to Drive You Mad" 
--------------8. "Death Drive " 
--------------9. "Slaughterhouse Drive" 
--------------10. "A Book Study with Roberta" 
--------------11. "The News from Roberta" 
----------------12. "Exit, Stage Left" 
------------------13. "The Final Shot of the Story" 
----------------12. "The Unnameable Dread of Unutterable Things" 
------------------13. "Heist School Drama" 
------------------14. "The Closet Case" 
----3. "A Conspiracy of Two" 
------4. "You, Yourself, and Him" 
--------5. "The Two of You" 
----------6. "Where There's a Will" 
------------7. "Back Alley Meetings" 
------------7. "A Life of Entrances and Exits"  [continues]
----------6. "Making a Break for It" 
------------7. "A Night in the Basement" 
------------8. "An Ill-Thought Break-Out" 
------------9. "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Awkward Fire" 
------------10. "Not the Girl He Thinks You Are" 
------------11. "Retrieval Mission" 
------------12. "The Boy With Your Brain" 
------------13. "Location, Location, Location" 
------------14. "Intruders at the Old State Theater" 
------------15. "Payday!" 
------------16. "Flirting with Success" 
------------17. "A Day in the Life" 
------------18. "Spoofing the Interrogation" 
------------19. "The New Girl with the Familiar Face" 
------------20. "It's a Date!" 
------------21. "A Distracted Diversion" 
------------22. "Work and Play" 
------------23. "Hurly-Burly" 
------4. "Assault on a Romantic Rival" 
------4. "A Friendship Is Renewed, Sort Of"  [continues]
------4. "Conspirators Three" 
--------5. "At the Mercy of a Dumbass" 
----------6. "Like a Key in a Lock" 
----------7. "Your New Face" 
----------8. "Faces All Around" 
------------9. "Keith Does It Again" 
--------------10. "Three Perfect Scores" 
--------------11. "Guys Into Dolls" 
--------------12. "Who Will? Chelsea Will!" 
--------------13. "Keith Finally Does It" 
--------------14. "A Girl with Two Faces" 
--------------15. "Some Awkward Explanations" 
--------------16. "New Partner, New Spell" 
--------------17. "Sunday at the Park with Teresa" 
--------------18. "Two in One" 
--------------19. "Personality on Parade" 
--------------20. "Mad About the Girl" 
--------------21. "Three Little Maids Are We" 
--------------22. "Making a Fourth Maskateer" 
------------9. "Unmasked Desires" 
--------------10. "A Face to Meet the Faces That You Meet" 
--------5. "Side-swiped by a Dumbass" 
----3. "The Search for Support"  [continues]
--2. "The Desperate Collector" 
----3. "Prisoners Below" 
----3. "A Slippery Sale" 
------4. "The Magician's House" 
--------5. "The Bully Boy" 
--------6. "Fear Strikes Out" 
--------7. "The Metaphysics of Magic" 
--------8. "The Ones Who Would Be Magicians" 
--------9. "The Ambition of Will Prescott" 
--------10. "The Making of the First Mask" 
--------11. "The Big Double-You" 
----------12. "Change of Address"  [continues]
----------12. "School Days" 
------------13. "Final Touches on a First Scheme" 
------------14. "A Yumi Choice" 
------------15. "A Yumi Life" 
--------------16. "Of Curses and Even Worse Things" 
----------------17. "Mom's the Word" 
----------------18. "The Mother of My Enemy Is Me!" 
----------------19. "Hanging with Mrs. Cooper" 
------------------20. "Sunday Fixings" 
--------------------21. "Instructing the Tutor" 
--------------------22. "Dirty Deeds in Plain Sight" 
--------------------23. "The Unhappy Warlock" 
--------------------24. "The Mother of Invention" 
--------------------25. "Being Betty Vredenburg, Part 1" 
--------------------26. "Being Betty Vredenburg, Part 2" 
--------------------27. "Old Plan, New Target" 
--------------------28. "The Persecution of Cindy Vredenburg" 
--------------------29. "A Wife Has Her Ways" 
------------------20. "In Which "Freaky Friday" Gets Another Remake" 
--------------------21. "Prepping for a College Caper" 
--------------------22. "The Changed Cheerleader" 
--------------------23. "The Cooper D'etat" 
--------------------24. "Teasing the Cats" 
--------------------25. "Flirting with Disaster" 
--------------------26. "A Sunday Lunch with Scrambled Seating" 
--------------16. "The Defenestration of Cindy Vredenburg" 
----------------17. "A Prisoner in the Attic" 
------------------18. "The Path Through the Protective Maze"  [continues]
------------------18. "The Space Behind the Face" 
--------------------19. "Losing Lucy" 
--------------------21. "New Information" 
--------------------22. "Old Scandals and New Discoveries" 
--------------------23. "An Accident and Its Aftermath" 
--------------------24. "The Sweet Life of a New Magician" 
--------------------25. "The Essence of Will Prescott" 
--------------------26. "Piercing the Veil" 
--------------------27. "More Tricks of the Trade" 
------4. "The House on the Edge of Oblivion"  [continues]
------4. "The End of a Very Short Adventure" 
----3. "Third Thoughts"  [continues]
--2. "In Which You Try to Wash Your Hands of It All" 
----3. "Odd Man Out"  [continues]
----3. "The Man in the Wheelchair" 
------4. "The Double-Dog Dare" 
------5. "Friday Night Follies" 
------6. "Not Your Normal Cookbook" 
------7. "Ready Player One" 
----3. "School Haze" 
------4. "A Company of Three" 
--------5. "Bully Sessions" 
----------6. "Whose Bully Stinks the Most?" 
------------7. "Hired Help" 
--------------8. "Empty Hands and Empty Heads" 
--------------9. "The Girl Most Likely to Kick Your Ass" 
--------------10. "Six Little Dairy Maids, All in a Row" 
--------------11. "The Cheese Channel" 
--------------12. "When the Bullies Come Out to Play" 
--------------13. "Two Consultations Without an Answer" 
--------------14. "Awkward Invitations" 
--------------15. "Messages Into the Dark" 
--------------16. "Appointments Broken and Accepted" 
--------------17. "Knuckleheads" 
--------------18. "An Unexpected Date" 
--------------19. "The Least Interesting Guy in Town" 
--------------20. "Braydon Builds a Time Machine (Of Sorts)" 
--------------21. "Unexpected Social Scenes" 
--------------22. "One Party, Two Girls, Some Assembly Required" 
----------------23. "Keen on Ms. Keane" 
----------------23. "A Flight and a Capture" 
------------------24. "Four Offers" 
--------------------25. "Special Effects" 
----------------------26. "Doubles for Pleasure" 
----------------------27. "Carlos Explains It All" 
----------------------28. "How to Hide Someone in Plain Sight" 
----------------------29. "Konspiracy with Keith" 
----------------------30. "Keith's Confliction" 
----------------------31. "Cindy for the Win" 
----------------------32. "The Spiders' Doorman" 
----------------------33. "Girls Gone Weird" 
----------------------34. "Imposters at the Improv" 
----------------------35. "Pretender to the Phone" 
----------------------36. "Your Two Faces" 
----------------------37. "Crushing It as Cindy" 
----------------------38. "A Yumi Trap" 
----------------------39. "F Is for Fake, and for Flinch" 
----------------------40. "The Run for Home" 
----------------------41. "Making Someone's Dream Come True" 
----------------------42. "Two More Rides" 
----------------------43. "Tortures Planned, Torments Suffered" 
----------------------44. "Two Faces and More" 
----------------------45. "Flirtations with Disaster" 
--------------------25. "The Magic Word Is "Money"" 
--------------------25. "Putting the Magic Back in the Tricks" 
--------------------25. "The Turkey Shoot(s His Mouth Off)" 
----------------------26. "The Search for Something Instead of Nothing" 
------------------------27. "A Friendly Face in an Unexpected Place" 
--------------------------28. "A Friend's Favor" 
--------------------------29. "Faking It for a Friend" 
--------------------------30. "School for Counterfeits" 
--------------------------31. "Life Among the Fakes" 
------------------------27. "Too Many Girls" 
--------------------------28. "The Wrong Kind of Party Crasher"  [continues]
--------------------------28. "Friendly Warnings" 
----------------------------29. "Dates Made and Dates Contemplated" 
----------------------------30. "Your Makeover" 
----------------------------31. "A Fashionable Foot Forward" 
----------------------------32. "The Same Question, Over and Over" 
----------------------------33. "The Dance Floor" 
----------------------------34. "The Afterglow" 
------------------------------35. "When a Body Meets a Body" 
--------------------------------36. "A Prisoner in the Dark" 
--------------------------------36. "Donuts of the Damned" 
----------------------------------37. "The Magical Transvestites, Part 1" 
----------------------------------38. "The Magical Transvestites, Part 2" 
------------------------------------39. "In Which Some Masks Come Off" 
------------------------------------39. "Keeping the Company of Facades"  [continues]
--------------------------------36. "Welcome Freshman" 
------------------------------35. "The Famous Will Prescott"  [continues]
------------7. "Things Best Left Buried"  [continues]
----------6. "A Distant Conclusion" 
------4. "A Drive with Dane" 
------4. "Crap to the Future"  [continues]
--2. "Opinions Sought, and Opinions Unwelcome" 
----3. "The Hot Potato" 
------4. "The Prank Pals" 
--------5. "Cindy's Story" 
--------6. "The Sequel to Cindy's Story" 
--------7. "The Fumble" 
--------8. "The Price of Progress" 
--------9. "Another Story From Cindy" 
--------10. "The New Girl in Your Life" 
--------11. "Girl Troubles" 
--------12. "Unlikely Partnerships" 
--------13. "Flirting with the Enemy" 
--------14. "Someone's Fake Girlfriend" 
--------15. "Weird Science" 
--------16. "Public Parts and Private Parties" 
------4. "Bids for Attention" 
--------5. "A Clash of Values"  [continues]
--------5. "Other People's Projects"  [continues]
----3. "The Project Master" 
------4. "Father Knows Best" 
--------5. "Metaphysical Counseling" 
--------6. "Keeping (It) Up with the Prescotts" 
--------7. "The Mature Choice" 
--------8. "To Con a Marc" 
--------9. "Little Stone Villa of Horrors" 
--------10. "The End of a Very Short Project" 
------4. "The Devils One Has to Deal With" 
--------5. "The Court of the Basketball Kings" 
----------6. "Show and Tell for Two" 
------------7. "Scream for Ice Cream" 
------------8. "One Giant Leap for Will Prescott" 
------------9. "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down!" 
------------10. "Backyard Magic" 
------------11. "Let Mikey Try It" 
------------12. "Face Time" 
------------13. "A Girl Who Never Was" 
------------14. "More Equals Merrier?" 
------------15. "Masks in the Night" 
----------6. "The Hobbyist" 
----------6. "The Benchwarmer" 
------------7. "It's Alive!" 
------------8. "When Three Is Two Too Many" 
------------9. "Mugged by Magic" 
--2. "A Day That Starts Like Any Other" 
----3. "Things That Frighten You" 
----4. "Mini-Golf and Many Girls"  [continues]
----5. "Taking a Chance on a Game of Skill" 
----6. "Liquored Up With Somewhere to Go" 

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