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1) The Talisman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian/New American Library
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While working at her Aunt Lucy and Uncle Ben's Honeybee Bakery in downtown Savannah, Katie Lightfoot discovers that her aunt is a witch and her recipes are actually spells, which comes in handy when Uncle Ben is accused of murdering a curmudgeonly customer and they need to clear his name.
Author
Series
Cupcake coven romances volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Nearly a century ago, Gwen Engel’s great-great-grandfather cast a spell with catastrophic side-effects. As a result, the Grand Council of Witches forbade his descendants from practicing witchcraft. The Council even planted anonymous snitches called Watchers in the community to report any errant spellcasting . . . Yet magic may still be alive and not so well in Zenobia. Gwen and her cousins, Trudy and Milo, receive a letter from Gwen’s adopted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hamelin, Vermont, isn't the most likely place for bagpipes and tartan, but at Peggy Winn's ScotShop, business is booming... While on a transatlantic hunt for some authentic wares to sell at her shop, Peggy is looking to forget her troubles by digging through the hidden treasures of the Scottish Highlands. With so many enchanting items on sale, Peggy can't resist buying a beautiful old tartan shawl. But once she wraps it around her shoulders, she discovers...
6) Bitterblue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While staying with his weird great-aunt, Evan buys a mixture of monster blood at a funky old toy store. It's fun to play with at first. But then Evan notices something weird about the green slimy stuff -- it seems to be growing. And all that growing has given it a monstrous appetite ..." P. [4] of cover.
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 4
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily and her friends go to Cielis for help, but something is very wrong, and as the number of Stonekeepers gets smaller and smaller, an awful secret is slowly uncovered that means the certain destruction of everything Emily fights for.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One night, Blue prepares to read a poem to an audience of friends from around the neighborhood. But just before he takes the stage, he's frozen with stage fright. The gang decides to travel back in time to borrow a good luck charm from one of Blue's poet ancestors in the hopes that holding it will make Blue brave. But once Blue gets one charm, he realizes he needs one more. And then another one. And then another one…will Blue ever feel bold enough...
11) The ropemaker
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to protect her from heartbreak, and as a result, she's incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justine's irrepressible curiosity--and her wish to lead a normal life--get the better of her, and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment. However, when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that'll threaten everything she holds...
13) The hexologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. But when they are approached...
14) Casting spells
Author
Series
Sugar Maple chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Language
English
Description
Chloe Hobbs, a sorcerer's daughter and owner of Sticks & String, a knitting shop in Sugar Maple, a Vermont town populated by warlocks, vampires, witches, and other paranormal inhabitants, believes that she has finally found Mr. Right, Luke MacKenzie, the all-too-human cop investigating the town's first homicide.
15) Invisibility
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"To break his curse of invisibility, a boy is helped by a girl, who is the only one who can see him"--
16) Sky scare
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Sam's araid of heights, but the experience of the day is hang gliding!.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuké--the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic...
Author
Series
Friday Harbor serie volume 4
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to protect her from heartbreak and as a result she is incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justine's irrepressible curiosity and her wish to lead a normal life get the better of her and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment. However, when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that will threaten everything she holds dear....
20) Crystal cove
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to protect her from heartbreak, and as a result, she is incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justine's irrepressible curiosity--and her wish to lead a normal life--get the better of her, and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment. However, when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that will threaten everything she holds...