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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
22) Gideon
Author
Series
Gideon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Making a shocking discovery after her father's death, Lauren, determined to find out who he really was, ends up in Gideon where nothing in this small Illinois town is what it seems, including time itself, and where she is threatened by almost every townsperson she encounters.
Author
Series
All of us villains volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Left with a rare condition caused by an industrial accident, Zinnia Gray celebrates her 21st, and possibly last, birthday and pricks her finger on a spinning wheel at a party, in a modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
25) Curse of Salem
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Teaming up with less-than-reassuring partner Destiny Kincaid for his first assignment, former Chicago street cop-turned-FBI Special Crimes Unit rookie finds the limits of his paranormal abilities tested by unexpected occult dangers.
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend, and must summon everything she’s inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn’s husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn’s life as well.
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the violent and unnatural death of Sir Charles Baskerville is attributed by the villagers to the curse of the Hound, an ancient ghost, Watson and Holmes arrive on the scene just in time to prevent another terrible tragedy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Petunia, youngest of the dancing princesses, is ambushed by bandits in wolf masks on her way to visit an elderly neighbor, the line between enemies and friends becomes blurred as she and her sisters get a chance to end their family's curse once and for all.
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right.
32) Salt magic
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
Author
Language
English
Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR
For fans of Amy Tan, KJ Dell'Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut celebrates a family of estranged Vietnamese women who experiences mishaps and unexpected joy after a psychic makes a startling prediction about their...
A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR
For fans of Amy Tan, KJ Dell'Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut celebrates a family of estranged Vietnamese women who experiences mishaps and unexpected joy after a psychic makes a startling prediction about their...
Author
Series
Kingmaker chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The queen has been cursed, and Jocasta-herbalist and member of the royal family-is the only one who can brave Circe's Garden to save her. But with treachery brewing on Mount Olympus, only one thing is clear: Thalyria and its new royals are still pawns in an epic game of power one that might end in a War of Gods"--
35) A Million Junes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
June O'Donnell and Saul Angert, the daughter and son of two long-feuding families, fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about a curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.
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