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• Whichwood

  Mafi, Tahereh,

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  Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.

• Spirit Hunters

  Oh, Ellen,

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  Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Gardener

  Auxier, Jonathan

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  Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jumbies

  Baptiste, Tracey

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  Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Labyrinth Lost

  Córdova, Zoraida,

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  Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The School for Good and Evil

  Chainani, Soman,

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  Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed.

• Bloom

  Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-

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  The invasion begins–but not as you’d expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout–overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom–and release…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters

  Dilloway, Margaret,

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  Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.

• The Selection

  Cass, Kiera

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  Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illéa, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  Barnhill, Kelly Regan,

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  An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.

• The City of Ember

  DuPrau, Jeanne

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  In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

• Circus Mirandus

  Beasley, Cassie,

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  When he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle sets out to find the mysterious Circus Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life.

• The Glass Sentence

  Grove, S. E.,

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  In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forgotten City

  Ford, Michael, 1980-

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  Growing up in a world where a deadly virus has wiped out or mutated most of humanity, young Kobi embarks on a search for his missing father only to uncover a conspiracy more deadly than the plague itself.

• Revenge of the Witch

  Delaney, Joseph, 1945-

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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."

• This Is Not a Werewolf Story

  Evans, Sandra, 1970-

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  This is the story of boarding school student Raul, who waits for sunset--and the mysterious, marvelous phenomenon that allows him to go home.

• The Outcasts

  Flanagan, John (John Anthony)

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  In this companion series to John Flanagan's "Ranger's Apprentice" series, boys who don't fit in with the Skandians are known as outcasts. Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Found

  Haddix, Margaret Peterson

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  When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legend

  Lu, Marie, 1984-

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  In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.