Diana Wynne Jones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
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Dalemark quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
11) Power of three
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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The curse on Orban spreads bad luck to the rest of the Otmounders, the Giants, and the Dorig until three Otmounder children are born with Gifts.
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Dalemark quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden. Includes a 75-page "Guide to Dalemark" which identifies some of the people, places, and language of Dalemark for the reader.
13) The Pinhoe egg
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
14) Cart and cwidder
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Dalemark quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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When their father, a traveling minstrel, is killed, three children involved in rebellion and intrigue inherit a lute-like cwidder with more than musical powers.
15) Drowned Ammet
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Dalemark quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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When his protest against the tyrannical government fails, a young boy escapes, with two other children, to the mysterious Holy Islands where they learn the identity and the power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
17) Witch week
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.