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2) The curses
Author
Series
Graces volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The youngest of the Grace siblings, Summer, calls on the coven to help with a secret she has uncovered, while Wolf's behavior becomes unpredictable and, perhaps, threatening.
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home and her reactions to them are somewhat unexpected.
Author
Series
How to hang a witch volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
10) Witch Week
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
11) Gallows Hill
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.
14) Gallows Hill
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Told in alternating voices, in 1692 Salem, Puritan Patience and Quaker Thomas are engrossed in a community panic over witchcraft, and as the list of accusers and accused grows, they question their faiths and fight to protect their families.
15) Conrad's fate
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
16) Circe: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her...
Author
Series
Blue is for nightmares volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives.