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The bronze key
by Holly Black
A latest entry in the series that includes The Iron Trial and The Copper Gauntlet continues the good-versus-evil adventures of Callum Hunt, his Chaos-wolf, Havoc, and their companions in the magical world of the Magisterium.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
by Kelly Barnhill
Fantasy. The Proctectorate claims that babies have to be sacrificed every year to satisfy the evil forest witch. The villagers obey, never realizing that the witch, Xan, is actually a kind soul who rescues the abandoned infants. After Xan accidentally "enmagicks" one of the babies by feeding her moonlight, she decides raise the child (now named Luna) herself, with some help from a sage swamp monster and a tiny, talkative dragon. As Luna's 13th birthday approaches and her magic grows, you'll begin to see that her story is just one of many threads in this imaginative and carefully crafted page-turner.
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The Wolf Keepers
by Elise Broach
Having an unconventional upbringing in a caretaker's home at the zoo, where she observes animal behaviors and has difficulty making friends, 12-year-old Lizzie bonds with a runaway who is seeking shelter at the zoo before stumbling into a covert investigation involving the zoo's dying wolves and the legend of John Muir.
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Pax
by Sara Pennypacker
When his father enlists in the military and makes him return his beloved pet fox to the wild, Peter, who has been sent to live with his grandfather hundreds of miles away, embarks on a journey filled with astonishing discoveries in order to be reunited with his fox. By the award-winning author of the Clementine series.
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Focus on: Magical Realism
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A snicker of magic
by Natalie Lloyd
Arriving in a town where magic has been driven away by a curse, 12-year-old Felicity, a girl who possesses a supernatural ability to see words around the people and places she visits, befriends mysterious do-gooder Jonah, who introduces shimmering new words while helping her break the curse.
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The seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
by Betty G. Birney
Living in his boring town, Eben McAllister begrudgingly accepts his father's challenge to locate the Seven Wonders in Sassafras in order to win the prize of a family trip to Colorado and, in the process, discovers the magic that lies within his community that he had never taken notice of before.
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| The Lightning Queen by Laura ResauMagical Realism. For Teo and Esma, destiny strikes during their childhood in the 1950s, when Esma and her Romani family visit Teo's Mixteco community in the dusty Mexican mountains. Teo is grieving the loss of his twin sister, but spirited Esma (who calls herself the "Queen of Lightning") puts "the spark of life" back in him. Though Esma's fortune-teller grandmother predicts that their friendship will be lifelong, even lasting into the lives of their grandchildren, readers are fast-forwarded to the present day, where Teo and Esma have lost touch over the years. Can their grandchildren figure out how to reunite them so they can fulfill their destiny? Find out in this magical and deeply moving read. |
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My haunted house
by Angie Sage
Araminta Spookie enlists the help of several ghosts and a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace in an attempt to stop her Aunt Tabby from selling Spook House.
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