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1) The witches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
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!
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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Description
Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
Author
Series
Pure dead magic volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle.
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her training as a wicked witch doesn't go so well and she is expelled from charm school, Hunky Dory decides to follow her real passion of becoming a fairy godmother where she will use her magic to help others fulfill their romantic dreams.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grassina has always lived in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Chartreuse. But when a terrible spell leaves the Kingdom of Greater Greensward in great danger, it is Grassina who finds the magic to set things right.
Author
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.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
Author
Series
Pure dead magic volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Time travel, a computer virus that's deadly to humans, and other strange things begin to happen when some would-be witches come to stay with the eccentric Strega-Borgia family.
14) Pure dead wicked
Author
Series
Pure dead magic volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
The Strega-Borgia children accidentally create 500 clones of themselves at the same time that the roof on their Scottish castle falls in, attracting evil contractors who want their home.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 55
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys' investigation of a museum robbery in England arouses the anger of a coven of black witches.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Fifth-grader Abbie, descended from a long line of witches, tries to keep her family's magic powers secret from everyone she knows until her father brings home a kitten with some very unusual characteristics.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma and Eadric travel to Upper Montevista to ask his parents to bless their upcoming marriage and discover that Eadric's younger brother has been kidnapped by trolls.
18) Witch catcher
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
19) Backwards moon
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the magical veil that protects their valley from humans is broached and the Wellspring Water needed to repair it is polluted, it is up to two young witches, Bracken and Nettle, to save the coven.
20) Kid vs. squid
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer after sixth grade at his great-uncle's oceanside museum, Thatcher and local girl Trudy team up to help Shoal, one of the people of Atlantis cursed by a witch whose head still survives, and who has an army of monstrous creatures helping her.
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