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English
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At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The eldest of three sisters, in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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
Author
Series
Dalemark quartet volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tanaqui discovers she has the means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards
10) Witch week
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Publisher
Beech Tree
Pub. Date
1997, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are nervous—especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all. Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians
...11) Dogsbody
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans...
The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage
13) Charmed life
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
Publisher
Beech Tree
Pub. Date
1998, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches
14) Drowned Ammet
Author
Series
Dalemark quartet volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his protest against the tyrannical government fails, a young boy escapes, with two other children, to the mysterious Holy Islands where they learn the identity and the power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.
Author
Series
Dalemark quartet volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
17) Enchanted glass
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives
18) Deep secret
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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