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Series:
Frontier magic volume 1
Publisher:
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Description:
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Canada
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Working at her parents' roadside gas station and struggling to cope with her alcoholic father and defeated mother, Kate escapes her stressful family life by writing stories. So when Mike, the new boy in town, threatens to rob the snack bar, Kate recognizes his need for attention and decides to befriend him instead of turning him in. But when she hears of a series of robberies in town and then about the murder of the popular girl at school, Kate is...
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Publisher:
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Immortal sidhe Tuulois MacColewyn is living rough. After nearly two centuries of life as one of Faerie Queen Titania's prized wolves and a handful of years as a Roaring Twenties mob boss's favorite enforcer, he's now exiled to New York, making rent doing dirty jobs for other fey outcasts. He used to consult on the occult for Detective James Corhagen at the NYPD, but since their highly combustible friendship burned itself out a year ago, Cole hasn't...
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Publisher:
Severn House
Pub. Date:
c2009
Language:
English
Description:
Unwanted thirteenth child Jemima is brought up in poverty in 1890s East Anglia, whilst her twin Sophie is taken to live with a kind aunt. Sophie grows up spoiled, disliking her clever sister. Jemima dreams of training to be a teacher. Meanwhile, she takes a job at a shop, where she becomes friends with Richard, the reluctant heir to the business. Then Sophie comes to seek Jemima's help and Jemima faces a dilemma. Should she sacrifice her dreams for...
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Series:
Language:
English
Description:
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
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Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
"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...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
With more than a million copies sold, Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a must-read for fans of classic children's literature or timeless fantasy fables.
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. She shares her home with a wise...
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. She shares her home with a wise...
10. The yellow house
Author:
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Description:
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
11. Wishing day
Author:
Series:
Wishing Day volume 1
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
Description:
Following a town tradition, Natasha makes three wishes at the willow tree on Wishing Day, and after one comes true, she holds out hope that her second wish--that her mother, who disappeared eight years earlier, is alive--will as well.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
In an intricate balance of past and present, Susanna Kearsley offers a story of French historical fiction full of breathless suspense, Gothic romance, and priceless
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Series:
Lexile measure:
1170L
Description:
"The hidden force of fate is symbolized by the superhuman grandeur and multitudinous imageries of the cathedral. 'The first part ... is a panorama of medieval life--religious, civic, popular, and criminal--drawn with immense learning and an amazing command of spectacular effect. These elements are then set into motion in a fantastic and grandiose drama, of which the personages are romantic sublimations of human virtues and passions--Quasimodo the...
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Series:
Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
16. The city
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Language:
English
Description:
Describes the social and economic structure of city life during the Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1600, explaining how cities varied in government, commerce, population, and culture, and how they influenced the shaping of European civilization.
Author:
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height
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Series:
Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Description:
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
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Series:
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 700L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last - the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge - and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a...
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Series:
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Description:
He can resurrect the dead, but can he get the girl? The fae Tris can't seem to find his place in the world-either world, mortal or elemental. All his friends are married, but he can't get a date, much less get laid. When he bumps into a sexy girl, she's not interested in sex or dating. She calls herself a cryptozoologist and only wants to follow him around to study him in his "natural habitat"-whether he likes it or not. Maybe he wouldn't mind if...