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Emily Windsnap volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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When she incurs Neptune's wrath by finding a diamond ring buried under rocks in the ocean, Emily is put under a curse that will force her to choose to be either a mermaid or a human and split up her parents forever.
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Nevermoor volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
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Once upon a broken heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
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Pub. Date
c2004
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"New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stereotypically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people.
Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites....
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Anna Korlov series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
9) Dark witch
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at the local stables, she meets the owner, Boyle McGrath. ...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
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Graceling Realm volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Enter the Graceling Realm and let it work its magic in this unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cashore. When Queen Bitterblue took the throne of Monsea, she was a child, and her advisers ran the kingdom for her. Now she is beginning to question their decisions, especially how they handle the legacy of her father Leck, who who ruled through his Grace--a special talent for mind-altering--and his taste for darkness and...
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Dreadful tale of Prosper Redding volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A modern New England boy must rid himself of the ancient demon inhabiting his body and break his family's curse.
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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's been raining non-stop for six whole days. Someone has cursed the Kingdom of Wrenly. Can Lucas and Clara figure out who's behind the evil spell and stop the villain before it's too late?"--
14) The accursed
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In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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"When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within"--Provided by publisher.
16) Thinner
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Pub. Date
c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family...and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections, and gets off with a slap on the wrist...much...
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Six crimson cranes volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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Shiori, princess of Kiata, has a secret: Forbidden magic runs through her veins. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control, and it forestalls the wedding she never wanted-- but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother. Using a dark magic of her own, Raikama banishes the princess, turns her brothers into cranes, and warns Shiori that for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Penniless,...
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Hamster princess volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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"Harriet Hamsterbone sets out to reverse the curse on twelve mice princesses who are forced to dance all night, every night"--
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Series
Hamster princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
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.