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41) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The stunning conclusion to Gilded, Marissa Meyer's Rumpelstiltskin retelling!
42) This wicked fate
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Author
Series
Anna Korlov series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before
44) Happy medium
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Language
English
Description
"Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she...
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Lark goes on a quest to find the infamous ring from Arthurian legend to break her brother's curse"--
Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herself--and her brother, Cabell--alive....
46) A pinch of magic
Author
Series
Pinch of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and proper Fliss--go on a quest to break the curse that has haunted their family for generations
Author
Series
Violet made of thorns volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased--and not always true--divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so-not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he's crowned at the end of the summer--unless Violet does something about it. But when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will...
Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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2025 Lincoln Award Nominees
Teen: Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Teen: Fairy Tales, Legends, and Mythology
Teen: Fantasy
Teen: Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Teen: Fairy Tales, Legends, and Mythology
Teen: Fantasy
Description
The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic
Shiori, princess of Kiata, has a secret: Forbidden magic runs through her veins. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony she loses control, and it forestalls the wedding she never wanted-- but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother....
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Months after Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell and sacrificed herself for seventeen-year-old ghost hunter Cas Lowood, persistent visions of Anna being tortured cause Cas to decide to save her as she once saved him
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Series
Language
English
Description
"An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall. After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the...
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English
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"Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie--that she's pregnant with another man's child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster ... until she claps eyes on the powerful and wickedly handsome Laird Hunt MacLarin."--Back cover
53) Vanished
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Hamsterbone sets out to reverse the curse on twelve mice princesses who are forced to dance all night, every night"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up"--
"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living in fear of their father, six cursed sisters sneak out to visit Full Moon Fayre, but when Grace, the oldest sister, goes missing, they must battle inner doubts and the legends that have haunted their family to save her
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right
60) The bone spindle
Author
Series
Bone spindle novels volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When she pricks her finger on a bone spindle, treasure hunter Fi is stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose, a prince under a sleeping curse, and must team up with a tough-as-dirt girl warrior to free the prince--and herself
Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn't believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own...
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