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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this riveting collection, master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents wildly unpredictable tales in which even the most routine lives are visited by extraordinary events."--
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's wine cellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abdullah meets and falls instantly in love with the beautiful and clever Flower-in-the-Night. But a wicked djinn sweeps the princess away right before Abdullah's eyes, leaving the young man no choice but to follow.
7) Mixed magics
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 5
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Four separate incidents test the power of the Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter with nine lives, to control misuses of magic on various worlds.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
10) Enchanted glass
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
11) The game
Author
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her past are revealed.
12) The Pinhoe egg
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2007, ©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.
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