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Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An inexperienced prince sets out to recover a stolen artifact from an evil wizard in this comic fantasy adventure by the author of The Unhandsome Prince.
When a seemingly crazy, poorly dressed soothsayer tells you not to let a magical talisman fall into the wrong hands, take him or her seriously. DO NOT laugh it off and leave said talisman simply lying around on a side table, you might as well just end the world yourself.
-The Handbook of Practical...
2) 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.
3) Passion Blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award-winning co-author Phoef Sutton. Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier "Peg Leg" Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate's treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice--the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A rare silver coin and a mysterious red-haired boy seem entangled in eleven-year-old Jacob "Deb" Corey's fate when he is laid up with a badly broken leg on his family's farm in the mid-1800s, just after performing a hex to cure his wanderlust.
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life and the world as we know it.
Author
Series
Cloudmages volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jenna led a peaceful life until the night she picks up a strangely alluring stone. She holds the Lámh Shábhála, the master stone of legend which could reawaken all the other stones of power and bring magic back to the world.
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Bette finds an angel coin she puts it in her pocket and forgets it but soon the mysterious and kind Gabby moves into her building and helps her face her major losses, and then the coin connects her with three classmates who all find new ways to believe in themselves.
10) Silver master
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Set in the world of Harmony, which was colonized by humans two hundred years ago, security specialist Davis Oakes uses his unique psychic abilities to locate a relic that Celinda had bought as a toy for her pet dust bunny, but he must also keep his desire for Celinda in check.
11) Midnight train
Author
Series
Enchanter's child volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In the first book of the Enchanter’s Child duology, Alex discovered the truth: Not only does she possess magical powers but her father is Hagos RavenStarr, who was once the king’s Enchanter. Alex is pursued by the fiendish Twilight Hauntings, monstrous Enchantments created because a prophecy foretold the king’s death at the hands of an Enchanter’s Child. The Twilight Hauntings are designed to rid the land of all Enchanters and their children,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a repairman at Corman Towers finds a talisman and takes it home, the portal opens and an army of skeletons emerges--so it is up to Furry and Flo to retrieve the gem that controls them and send it and the skeletons back to the other world.
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For the seventh time Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the Kingdom of Fantasy--this time Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needs him to find the seven enchanted charms before the evil Wizard of the Black Pearl can get to them.
14) Blood flag
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defending a client accused of mercy-killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy involving the victim's former unit from World War II and a feared Nazi relic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland-Below, who's stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.
16) Copper magic
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1906, and twelve-year-old Violet Blake unearths an ancient talisman--a copper hand--beside the stream where her mother used to harvest medicine. Violet's touch warms the copper hand and it begins to reveal glimpses of another time. Violet iscertain that the copper hand is magic--and if anyone is in need of its powers, it's Violet. Her mother and adored baby brother are gone, perhaps never to return. Her heartbroken father can't seem to...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Kingdom of Fantasy volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For the seventh time Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the Kingdom of Fantasy--this time Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needs him to find the seven enchanted charms before the evil Wizard of the Black Pearl can get to them.
18) The starlit room
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the Keepers and the Wardens have been guarding the mysterious Mothergates, a source of incredible power. But now the Mothergates are dying, and Horace and his fellow Keepers know that the weakened gates may unleash a dangerous force that will consume the world--and destroy everyone in it. While their enemies are willing to take this careless risk, Horace and his friends are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the preservation of the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Following his international bestsellers Roma and Empire, Steven Saylor continues his saga of the greatest, most storied empire in history from the eternal city at the very center of it all. A.D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Universal peace-the Pax Roma-reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome. The ancient Pinarius...
20) Wicked business
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Dazzling her patrons with cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Lizzy Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins.