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Book cover for "The witches are coming".
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you. From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've...
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Publisher:
iUniverse
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Witch World has been destroyed, blasted for three days by a starship that would not communicate with the peopleof the planet below. Queen Celine and her four princesses managed to save themselves through magic on their dying planet, but only long enough to hear a voice in the darkness reveling in their destruction. Then they were blasted into blackness. Years pass, and the five warrior women find themselves drawn back to life, granted peace and honor...
Book cover for "Come and dance, wicked witch".
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Lemniscaat
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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When the forest animals' party ruins her potion, the wicked witch goes to the party to ruin it, but things do not work out the way she planned.
Book cover for "Hallmark Romance".
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ITV Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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For the love of Grace: Despite the loss of her mother, Cyd is marrying her high school sweetheart, Zach. When she looks to sell her dance studio, she finds out her long-lost father is a co-owner, and re-establishes a connection with him. Finding each other helps Cyd and her father uncover what's really important in life, and together they have a reason to celebrate the joyful wedding. Bridal fever: Gwen, a book publisher's assistant, has all but...
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban".
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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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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.
Book cover for "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
Book cover for "The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe".
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Book cover for "Macbeth".
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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'The Scottish Play' is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, but its characters are some of the most memorable in his oeuvre: the misguided Macbeth, the ruthless Lady Macbeth and the otherworldly Weird Sisters are recognisable as classic Shakespearean roles. Saturated with blood and despair, the tragedy of Macbeth is a concentrated study of guilt and ambition inflamed by the supernatural."
Book cover for "The wonderful Wizard of Oz".
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Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, are swept away from their home in Kansas by a powerful tornado and dropped into an enchanting new land called Oz. To get home, the Witch of the North tells Dorothy she must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and ask the mysterious Wizard of Oz for help. Along the way, she meets the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, and together they embark on a strange and magical adventure"--
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Lexile measure:
740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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The BFG--Big Friendly Giant--kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants.
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English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows...
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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Follow the yellow brick road! Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully mysterious Wizard of Oz. Together with her companions the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion whom she meets on the way, Dorothy embarks on a strange and enchanting...

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Batcat volume 1
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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First in a full-color graphic novel series for emerging readers about accepting yourself and others from up-and-coming author-illustrator Meggie Ramm, creator of the comic strip The Littlest Dungeon Guard and cohost of the Pop! Whiz! Bang! comics podcast.

Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time playing video games and watching TV. But when Batcat suddenly...
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HL: High-Low 620L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
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English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted... Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her...
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Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
Book cover for "The witch boy".
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Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 490L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
From the illustrator of the web comic Strong Female Protagonist comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage -- and magic. In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.When a...
Book cover for "Hansel and Gretel".
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English
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A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch. With illustrations showing characters with modern dress and possessions.
Book cover for "The chronicles of Narnia".
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Magician's nephew: When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe: Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the...