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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Amos Fortune's life was a journey toward one destination--freedom! The journey begins is a slave trader's canoe on Africa's Gold Coast. At-Mun, a young king, is taken with his black tribesmen and thrus
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Previously published as Simply Fortune Telling with Playing Cards. There is a certain romance attached to playing cards: from the riverboat gamblers on the Mississippi to genteel parlor games and the current popular surge in poker tournaments. How many of us while away our bored moments with a game of solitaire? This user-friendly guide will show you how to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a fun and simple tool for telling the future. Learn the...
4) Glorious
Author
Series
Cash McLendon novels volume 1
Language
English
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"New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872. We've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget. Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets...
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Series
Nancy Clancy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy's Magic 8 Ball doesn't work ever since JoJo dropped it. And the paper fortune-tellers that Nancy and Bree love making never give answers you can count on. Then all of a sudden Nancy starts predicting things that do come true! Can she really see the future? All signs seems to point to yes! So Nancy tries her hand at fortune-telling during recess. What she sees, however, isn't the future; she sees that she's gotten herself into a big, BIG problem....
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Manifest with the Magician, pave the way for new beginnings with the Tower, and connect to your subconscious with the High Priestess. Tarot will empower your intuition and help you gain insight into your life and the lives of others. This comprehensive tarot book guide demystifies the ancient art to provide you with the knowledge and techniques you need to approach your tarot practice with confidence. You’ll unlock your destiny by learning tarot...
8) Raven speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Asa is the daughter of a Viking chief whose clan is struggling to survive a never-ending winter. All the able-bodied men head to sea in search of food, leaving behind the children, the elderly, the sick -- and Jorgen the skald, the wise man who will stop at nothing to take over the clan. When Asa learns the skald wants to kill and eat her beloved horse, she runs away -- but soon realizes she has to return and try to save her mother and clan. And...
Author
Publisher
Alpha Books
Language
English
Description
Includes easy to understand instructions for interpreting birth charts, a reference guide to signs, planets, and houses, information on energies, qualities, elements and other astrology essentials. Also, includes ways to incorporate newfound astrological insights into everyday life.
Author
Series
The Zack files volume 13
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack visits a very strange Chinese restaurant called Wun Dum Guy and finds that the fortunes in his fortune cookies start coming true.
Author
Series
The Wizard of Oz series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The magical practices and potions of the Land of Oz is the thread running through The Patchwork Girl. The story begins with a visit by a young Munchkin lad, Ojo the Unlucky, who with his Unc Nunkie visit a reclusive magician, Dr. Pipt. The old sorcerer has just completed the six year task of brewing a spoonful of the Powder of Life, and is preparing to administer it to a life-sized rag doll made by his wife Margolotte. The intent is to create a servant...
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A poor old Chinese farmer finds a magic brass pot that doubles or duplicates whatever is placed inside it, but his efforts to make himself wealthy lead to unexpected complications.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Sutcliff's grave.
Author
Publisher
Berley Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An “intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People).
Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California...
Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California...
15) The club
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a group of friends starts getting together to play an old game that they discovered in a basement called "Black Magic," they begin to discover that the game's promise of granting good fortune at the expense of enemies is coming true, to a horrific extent.
16) Fortune-telling
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents a description and history of some of the most popular methods of predicting the future, including astrology, palm reading, tarot cards, I Ching, and oracles.
17) Fortune
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was there, locked in her memories of blood spilling across a gleaming floor, in the sound of her own screams. And in the terror she'd felt the night her mother disappeared. And now, the evil that has haunted her dreams has found her, and he will do anything to keep her.
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Series
Language
English
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CIA assassin Fortune Reading is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever -- in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head, Fortune never expected to be this far out of her element: posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small bayou town!
19) The Immortalists
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...