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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
Author
Series
Court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Lark goes on a quest to find the infamous ring from Arthurian legend to break her brother's curse"--
Author
Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither...
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Isaac joins the notoriously terrible Middleton High baseball team, he gets frustrated by the lack of effort from his teammates. But then he learns the team is cursed and becomes determined to end it"--
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right.
9) Radioactive
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Trouble hits paradise when accidents start befalling tourists on a Pacific island. Local legend has it that the locale is cursed after nuclear testing in the 1950s. It sounds like fiction, but is it?"--
10) The darkest king
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 15
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cursed by a vengeful witch, William of the Dark will die if he ever falls in love, murdered by the woman who steals his heart. His lone shot at redemption is a book filled with indecipherable code. Break the code, break the curse. Now, centuries later, he's condemned to a string of one-night stands until he finds the only woman in the worlds able to set him free. One of the last living unicorn shifters, Sunday "Sunny" Lane works from the shadows as...
11) The night parade
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto unintentionally invokes a death curse, she must enter the dangerous spirit world at the Night Parade and attempt to perform deeds that can break the curse.
12) Thornhedge
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering...
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
15) Thinner
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
When an obese small-town lawyer hits and kills a gypsy's daughter, the man curses him with one word: Thinner.
16) Tumble and Blue
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order for Tumble Wilson and Blue Montgomery to fix their ancestors' mistakes and banish the bad luck that has followed them around for all of their lives, they must face Munch, the mysterious golden alligator who cast the curse centuries ago.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
It's been four years since five friends put a sacrifice into a strange box they found in the forest. They made a vow that they'd never open the box after midnight, visit the box alone, or take back what they put inside. But when strange and terrifying things begin to happen, they realize that one of them has broken the vow. And now all of them face the wrath of a curse that could easily kill them.
18) Maleficent
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom, and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness...
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The prequel to Alice Hoffman's PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep"--For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her...