Books with title Keystone Kids

What happens when a prophecy goes wrong? The fabled Storm Child, bearer of the white magic and most recent in the line of lost wizard kings, is not quite what everyone was expecting. For one thing she’s a girl. And girls can’t be wizards. Can they?And just what is the Keystone, which is rumoured to hold unimaginable power?Farmer's daughter, Jo Hooper, sets off to the City of Chairnin hoping to find the answers to all these questions and more. She faces peril in the form of the tyrannical Denney, Lord-Protector of Chairnin and his dangerous right hand man, the High Priest of Ishania. They will stop at nothing to gain total control of Chairnin and the immense power of the Keystone. The trouble is...no one knows where it is.Struggling to come to terms with her own special gifts, Jo soon finds herself on a quest to hunt down this magical tool. She has the help of some new friends - a Seer, two young wizards and an exiled High Priestess, to name but a few. What roles they play become more apparent the closer Jo gets to the Keystone - and the closer the realm gets to the battle for Chairnin that will decide the fate of them all.

The Keystone Kid had come all the way from Pennsylvania to be a cowboy, and stepped off the train dressed to the teeth in an atrocious freshly bought Western outfit. It was no surprise to anyone when he almost instantly became the butt of some unpleasant jokes in the local bar. What was surprising was that he made no attempt to fight back against the bully who had decided to make a show of it. He gained two things that day his name, the Keystone Kid, and his reputation as a coward. The Kid made one friend, though, who helped him learn the ropes horses and cattle, the way the ranch was really run and he soon took on the look and ways of a true cowhand. But there was still that sore point of his cowardice. No one could help the Kid with that. When the time finally came to prove himself, he had to stand aloneand his life depended on it.

What happens when a prophecy goes wrong? The fabled Storm Child, bearer of the white magic and most recent in the line of lost wizard kings, is not quite what everyone was expecting. For one thing she’s a girl. And girls can’t be wizards. Can they? And just what is the Keystone, which is rumoured to hold unimaginable power? Farmer's daughter, Jo Hooper, sets off to the City of Chairnin hoping to find the answers to all these questions and more. She faces peril in the form of the tyrannical Denney, Lord-Protector of Chairnin and his dangerous right hand man, the High Priest of Ishania. They will stop at nothing to gain total control of Chairnin and the immense power of the Keystone. The trouble is...no one knows where it is. Struggling to come to terms with her own special gifts, Jo soon finds herself on a quest to hunt down this magical tool. She has the help of some new friends - a Seer, two young wizards and an exiled High Priestess, to name but a few. What roles they play become more apparent the closer Jo gets to the Keystone - and the closer the realm gets to the battle for Chairnin that will decide the fate of them all.

This is one in a series of great sports books that John Tunis wrote for boys. This title "Keystone Kids" is considered to be before its time when first written in 1943, as the story deals frankly and realistically with prejudice and racial intolerance. "When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and must battle dissension and prejudice to unite the team and convince the players to accept the new Jewish catcher.