The Magickers is a series of children's fantasy novels by author Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz under the pseudonym Emily Drake.
[1] In The Magickers, eleven-year-old Jason's dreams of attending a summer soccer camp are dashed when he is injured during tryouts.
His new talents are tested severely as he and his new friends must save the camp from certain destruction by the Dark Hand, those who would use magic for evil.
After an exciting summer away at Camp Ravenwyng, Jason, Bailey, and the other Magickers return home to start school.
Not only must they learn to live in the "real" world without talking about their Talent, but the Dark Hand is also seeking them, and the elders have still not found a safe haven for them.
As Halloween approaches, the young magickers experience vivid nightmares and are stalked by wolf jackals.
All of them are finally drawn to the old McHenry house, where a decisive confrontation takes place with Brennard, leader of the Dark Hand.
The Dark Hand attempts to force Jason to open the Fire Gate which would have trapped them but using the drop of water sealed inside it, Garvan's focus crystal, Jason instead opens the Water Gate through which they escape to Haven then back home.
As the Magickers try to find the third and most important Gate into Haven, the elder members are being stricken by a strange ailment that drains their power and ages them.
In the third book, he also leaves for a time, working with a pack of wolfjackals who do not follow the Dark Hand Anita Patel- A camp doctor, helps the campers with even the oddest of injuries, including magical poisonings, burns, and bites.
Jason has the rare ability to be a Gatekeeper, meaning he can open and close the gates that lead between different worlds and dimensions.
Her familiar is a little pack rat whose eyes she can see through with a bit of practice, she later adopts a wolfjackal pup who parents are killed in the battle at the end of Gate Of Bones.
The resulting shock wave of magic killed many Magickers, as well as throwing some through time, and putting others, like Gregory, in a coma.