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Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Cursed to die on his sixteenth birthday, Runt Higgins must find answers at the Great Library, as Dr. Critchlore takes desperate measures to save his monster boarding school from being sold.
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Ella enchanted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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English
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"Maybe Archie Coomes has been watching too many horror movies. All of a sudden, the most ordinary things have taken on a sinister edge: a penny on a doormat. A man in a brown suit under a streetlamp. The persistent sound of an ax chopping in the middle of the night. He keeps telling himself that this is Seaham, a sleepy seaside town where nothing ever happens. Or at least nothing did, until his dad's construction company opened up the cliff beneath...
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Emblem Island volume 2
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English
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Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
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Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Tommy has never liked the school rabbit. In fact, he's sure it's cursed. And when it unexpectedly comes to stay and everything goes wrong, he may well be proved right. With sickness, dangerous dogs, and more disasters than one rabbit could possibly cause, Tommy and his family may just be doomed. Or can all this bad luck turn good in the end?
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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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English
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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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English
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Inventive, empathetic, and strange in all the best ways, The Spinner of Dreams draws from the author's own experiences to create a story that feels timeless and universal. As she did in her debut The Land of Yesterday, K. A. Reynolds thoughtfully explores mental health and crafts an adventure that fits right alongside middle grade classics like The Phantom Tollbooth.
Annalise Meriwether-though kind, smart, and curious-is terribly lonely.
Cursed...
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Pepper party volume 3
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English
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Meet the Peppers. Funny runs in the family.
For the Pepper family, Halloween means costumes, candy, and... curses? When Beta Max puts on Great-Grandfather Presto's ancient magic hat for some spooky fortune-telling, he never expects his wild predictions to come true. But soon a poltergeist is haunting the hallways, his parents are zombies, and a full moon has transformed the family dog into a Chihuawolf! Can Beta stop the curse from turning the Pepper...
11) The glass witch
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Twelve-year-old Adelaide Goode, the weakest witch born to the Goode family in centuries, accidentally unleashes a curse that threatens to erase her and magic if she fails to break the spell before midnight on Halloween.
12) A pinch of magic
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A pinch of magic volume 1
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English
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All Betty Widdershins wants is an adventure. But instead of an adventure, Betty and her sisters, Fliss and Charlie, are given of a set of magical objects, each with its own powers: a scruffy carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls, and a gilt-framed mirror. And these magical objects come with their own terrible secret: the sisters family is haunted by a generations-long curse.
13) The last present
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Willow Falls series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.
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English
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Kiki's Delivery Service meets Cressida Cowell in this funny, quirky middle-grade fantasy about a non-magical girl who discovers she does, indeed, have magic-and she must choose between two warring witch covens, or she'll explode!
Willa lives in the Wild, in a city squished between two warring witch covens. The non-magical Wildians spend their days dodging wayward spells-from raining frogs to dancing chickens-all because of the witch war raging around...
15) Polar distress
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Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Runt joins a team from his school in icy Upper Worb, where they battles beasts and compete to find a rare mineral against a team from Dr. Pravus's school that includes Runt's former best friend, Syke.
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Dreadful tale of Prosper Redding volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Prosper's adventures continue when he ventures to Alastor's home, the demon world.
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2014.
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English
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"When orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip arrive to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house, they discover that the house and its inhabitants are not what they seem. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house will change their lives forever"--www.bookmanager.com.
18) Speculation
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In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
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Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 1
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English
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To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
20) Finding Esme
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Esme's life changes when she discovers dinosaur bones on her family's peach farm in Texas.
Fans of Wendy Maas and Lynda Mullaly Hunt will love this perfectly pitched story about friendship, family, and loss from Suzanne Crowley, the acclaimed author of The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous.
After her grandfather died from a heart attack while driving his tractor on Solace Hill, twelve-year-old Esme's been inextricably...