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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.
5) The witches
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A follow-up to the best-selling Serpent & Dove finds fugitives Lou, Reid, Coco and Ansel splitting up to recruit allies against the Dames Blanches, an effort that is complicated by Morgane's lethal game of cat and mouse.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
Lou has spent her whole life running. Now, after a crushing blow from Morgane, the time has come to go home--and claim what is rightfully hers. But this is no longer the Lou her friends knew. No longer the Lou who captured a chasseur's heart. A darkness has settled over her, and this time it will take more than love to drive it out.
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Bone witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
10) Wicked appetite
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down, and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic...
11) Pale demon
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Series
Hollows (Kim Harrison) volume 9
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English
Description
"I wouldn't miss a Kim Harrison book for anything."—Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels
New York Times bestselling urban fantasy superstar Kim Harrison is back with Pale Demon—her ninth electrifying adventure featuring contemporary witch Rachel Morgan. This time Rachel's leaving the Hollows, on a cross-country road trip with a pixy, an elf, and a vampire, as she races to clear her blackened name at a California
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Dangerous damsels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"Two rival spies must brave pirates, witches, and fake matrimony to save the Queen. Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is beyond Alice's capabilities. She has a steely composure and a plan always up her sleeve (alongside a dagger...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin ... desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost - even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden.
14) Stain
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Lyra--a princess incapable of speech or sound--is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt. A witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest-- disguised as a boy known only as Stain. In Lyra's rival kingdom, the prince of thorns and night is dying, and the only way for him to break his curse is to wed the princess of daylight. As Lyra rediscovers her identity, an impostor princess prepares to steal her...
15) Cemetery boys
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. But the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is determined to find out what happened-- and tie up some loose ends before...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom. Includes "Extras" at the end of the book.
18) Dragon's breath
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Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having recovered their human shape, Emeralda and Eadric try to help Aunt Grassina find the special objects needed to break the spell that turned Grassina's true love, Haywood, into an otter.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
20) Serpent & dove
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two years ago Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Then a wicked stunt forces the two into holy matrimony. Lou is unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is. A choice must be made ... and love makes fools of us all. -- Adapted from jacket
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