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Last apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."
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Series
Last apprentice volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
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Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
3) Coraline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
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Pandava volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandavas's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to find someone who can teach them Water Magic.
10) Bird
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
11) Lucinda's secret
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Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
12) The magician
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Pandava volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"Aru Shah and her sisters--including one who also claims to be the Sleeper's daughter--must find their mentors Hanuman and Urvashi in Lanka, the city of gold, before war breaks out between the devas and asuras"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster. Developing a serum with the intent of separating his good side from his darker impulses, he periodically transforms into Edward Hyde, a brutal creature, free of any conscience. The scientist's strange behaviour is investigated by his friend, the lawyer John Utterson. What follows is a classic thriller, and a terrifying study of the duality of human nature. Also...
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Last apprentice volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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As the Spook's apprentice, Tom Ward must protect the country from the creatures of the dark. But now a dangerous ancient witch, Ordeen is about to rise. If Tom joins the army Tom's mother has mustered to confront Ordeen, the Spook will abandon him as his apprentice. What sacrifices will be made for the battle against the dark?
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Series
Last apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
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Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Pandava volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
20) The alchemyst
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
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While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.