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Author
Series
Secret projects volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Tor edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned...
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an atmosphere of uncertainty, as the magical world begins to face the fact that the evil wizard Voldemort is alive and active once again.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.
45) A tale of magic
Author
Series
A Tale of Magic volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
46) The great hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
he Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters,...
47) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
371 pages illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.
49) The book of life
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches-with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
51) Circe: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
Author
Series
Great cities trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
Author
Series
[Thea Stilton special edition volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
306 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Thea Sisters are summoned to the Seven Roses Unit by Will Mystery, but when they get there Will is missing; the sisters follow a trail of clues to the Fantasy Kingdoms, and find out that the Mayhem Mirror has been disturbed, and a terrible curse is about to be unleashed on the Fantasy Kingdoms, and it will be up to them to find the eight Harmonies which can break the curse and save the Kingdoms.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
355, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In three stories, Mia makes treats for a bake sale; Kate and her friends cannot wait to meet Peter Pan, although he may cause trouble; and Gabby goes to her first day of school.
56) Child of light
Author
Series
Viridian Deep volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the brilliant mind behind the Shannara saga comes an electrifying new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she's never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life. Since the age of fifteen, she has been trapped in a sinister prison. Why? She does not know. She has no memories of her past beyond the vaguest of impressions. All she knows is that she is about to age out of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a novel set between the events of "Maleficent" and "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil," a newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader she can while her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better, and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...