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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [Middle School Readers]
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
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"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
2) Cattywampus
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Middle Grade
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Middle Grade
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Magic is strictly forbidden in the McGill house, but Delpha McGill has found the family book of spells, and plans to use it to make things a little easier for herself and her mother; Katybird Hearn comes from a rival family of witches, but her magic has been slow to emerge, and she thinks a spell book is just what she needs to help things along--and when a quarrel between the two unleashes a graveyard full of angry zombies the two girls must work...
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Whatever after volume 10
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English
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In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
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A fresh and fun graphic novel series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!
Karen Brewer lives next door to Mrs. Porter, who wears long robes and has wild gray hair. Mrs. Porter has a black cat named Midnight and always seems to be working in her garden. Karen isn't supposed to spy on her neighbor, but she's determined to prove that Mrs. Porter is a witch named Morbidda Destiny!
Mrs. Porter is
...6) The witchery
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Witchery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Logan came to Mesmortes Coven Academy in Haelsford, Florida, to learn to control her powers, but she soon learns she has a role to play in the ancient curse of the hellmouth--whatever the cost to herself and her new friends.
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Emblem Island volume 1
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English
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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.
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When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, the bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned.
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Wizards of once volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Once there were Wizards, who were Magic, and Warriors, who were not. But Xar, son of the King of Wizards, can't cast a single spell. And Wish, daughter of the Warrior Queen, has a banned magical object of her own. When they collide in the wildwood, on the trail of a deadly witch, it's the start of a grand adventure that just might change the fabric of their worlds. -- from Amazon.
12) Witchlings
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Witchlings series volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches. And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can't wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn't placed in one of the five covens. She's a Spare! Spare covens have fewer witches, are less powerful,...
13) Cemetery boys
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2020.
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English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Oct 2023 - Hispanic Authors and Stories
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
TAB 2021 : High School
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
TAB 2021 : High School
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Teens
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Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
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...
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Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
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2011.
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English
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In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.
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Tales of the Frog Princess volume 3
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English
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Esmeralda, who is both a princess and a powerful witch, must travel back in time to end a family curse or risk losing her true love, Prince Eadric, forever.
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Heidi Heckelbeck volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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Going to her first sleepover, Heidi tries to hide her fear of the dark, with a little help from her Book of Spells.
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Little Witch books (Lieve Baeten) volume 4
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NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Heidi Heckelbeck volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To undo a disastrous spell, second-grader Heidi Heckelbeck must grant three wishes without magic.
20) Hoodwinked
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young witch searches for a creepy pet.
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