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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
2) Nightbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
Author
Series
The thickety volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of the worst of all crimes: witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic ... except, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island. It has many names, this place. Sometimes it is called the Dark Wood, or Sordyr's Realm. But mostly it's called the Thickety. The...
6) The Ravens
Author
Series
Ravens (Kass Morgan) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kappa Rho Nu may seem like your average sorority. They're the most powerful girls on Westerly College's Savannah, Georgia, campus. But the sisters of Kappa Rho Nu share a secret: they're a coven of witches. Scarlett Winters, daughter of a legacy Raven, is determined to live up to her mother's impossible expectations of becoming Kappa Rho Nu's next president. Vivi Deveraux vows to do whatever it takes to be part of the magical sisterhood. But someone...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rupert cannot resist applying to an advertisement to be a witch's apprentice, but quickly finds himself over his head with the young witch-in-training who desperately needs his help.
Author
Series
How to hang a witch volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
10) Conrad's fate
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.
11) The Brixen Witch
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rudi stumbles upon a witch's lair while out hunting, takes a gold coin he finds there but loses it again, then must deal with the witch's servant who promises to end the town's rat infestation only if he receives that gold coin, in a story reminiscent of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Fortuna Dalliance is asked by the weird Baldwin sisters to convince Martin, a distinctly bird-like boy, to return to his true form as a swallow but Fortuna is not sure she is willing to lose her new friend.
Author
Series
Babysitters coven volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. It's kinda lame, but Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it. And she needs the money-- it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Why is Cassandra Heaven willing to do...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Every fifty years, a cult claims twelve men to murder in a small Texas town. Can one girl end the cycle of violence - and save the boy who broke her heart? San Solano, Texas, is a quaint town known for its charm, hospitality, and history of murder. Twice now, twelve men have been brutally killed, and no one knows who did it. A shadowy witch? A copycat killer? Or a man-hating murderess? Eighteen-year-old Natalie Colter is sure that the rumors about...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. The dangerous romance and atmospheric setting makes it a perfect read for fans of dark academia. The history of Dalloway School lives in the bones it was built on. Five violent deaths in the first ten years of its existence. Sometimes you can still smell the blood on the air. It wasn't...
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