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Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"--
5) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the final book of the Books of beginning trilogy, Kate and Michael must help the magical world prepare for the final war against the Dire Magnus, while Emma must travel to find the final book--the Book of the Dead"--
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Andrea, a reluctant, tomboyish princess from the Kingdom of Zeltia--a world resembling medieval Spain--is transported from a forbidden cave into modern California, and when she accidentally returns to her home with the wrong person, it sets off a chain reaction that threatens her family and their kingdom.
Author
Series
Simon Bloom volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books/Walden Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Simon becomes the official Keeper of the Order of Physics, he and his friends Owen and Alysha face extreme danger as they try to protect the Universe from destruction by evil forces.
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Minor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On Midsummer's Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night's Dream three times over--right under Pook's Hill. That is how they meet Puck, "the oldest Old Thing in England," and the last of the People of the Hills. Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England's history and to characters that can illuminate their own historical predicaments.
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life and the world as we know it.
11) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
12) Still life
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
13) The shadow world
Author
Series
Eidolon chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben Arnold returns to the magical world of Eidolon to rescue his sister Ellie and help their mother battle the vile Dodman, whose power continues to grow.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful adaptation of the classic novel. Renowned graphic novel artist, Edith, has created an enchanting version of the classic Tom's Midnight Garden. This is a new and special way to read and share one of the best-loved and most enduring children's stories of all time. A story with a special place in the hearts of grandparents, parents, and children everywhere, this wonderful graphic novel adaptation is faithful, accessible, and stunningly illustrated....
15) The haunted key
Author
Series
Frightville volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sofia buys a skeleton key from spooky store Frightville that promises to open any lock. There's a mystery trunk in the attic of the big, old house her dad is turning into a bed-and-breakfast. Sofia is dying to see what's inside. To her delight, the key works on the trunk! But her joy quickly turns to terror when it seems like something may have been released from the trunk. She hears odd noises in the middle of the night and sees strange things around...
16) The Time museum
Author
Series
Time Museum volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Science-loving Delia Bean is expecting to have a pretty boring summer vacation looking after her little brother. But when her Uncle Lyndon offers her an internship in his Earth Time Museum, everything begins to look a lot better!
17) Finders creepers
Author
Series
Half past peculiar volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Twins Atticus and Esmeralda Fetch are the best pet finders in Thorns Hollow -- a town where people have a lot of pets, and those pets often get lost. But when a lost dog leads them to an old, Victorian house on the edge of town, the twins find their world turned upside down. This creepy house contains a portal that leads to a whole other world -- a world where mythical creatures like trolls, fairies, and dragons are real. The secrets this mythical...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.
Winnie Schulde can see splits: the moment when two possible outcomes diverge, one in her universe and one in another. She keeps it a secret; she knows the uses to which it might be put in the midst of a raging WWII. Her physicist father, made cruel by his grief after the loss of Winnie's mother, believes...
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