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21) City of Glass
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear
Author
Series
Blood and Ash volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers. The entire kingdom's future rests...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
High Warlock Magnus Bane and his new lover, the mortal Alec Lightwood, are celebrating their survival and victory in the Mortal War by touring the world. But the world won't leave them alone-- Magnus learns that a demon-worshipping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe. When he takes possession of a powerful spell book of dark magic known as The Book of the White, there are many who want to claim it for themselves. -- adapted from...
Author
Series
Last Finestra volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When eighteen-year-old Alessa's power to slay demons mysteriously disappears, she hires Dante, a cynical outcast marked as a killer, to become her bodyguard, and soon discovers he is either the one person who can help her master her gift or the one who destroys her
Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa's gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner's magic, not kill every suitor she touches. Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Angels walk among us, but so do other unearthly beings in this brand-new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he's a cop who...
26) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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2023 Lincoln Award Nominees
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Description
"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on...
28) Lady midnight
Author
Series
Dark artifices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn race to stop a demonic plot that threatens Los Angeles"--
29) Tread of angels
Author
Language
English
Description
"Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in a new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse. The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the...
30) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction
32) The second siege
Author
Series
The tapestry volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max and his allies risk much as they seek to acquire the Book of Origins, an artifact of unimaginable power, in hopes of halting the ancient evil that is bringing the world to its knees
Author
Series
Kingdom on fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When her unusual powers mark her as the one destined to lead the war against the seven Ancients, Henrietta trains to become the first female sorcerer in centuries--though the true nature of her ability threatens to be revealed"--
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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If You Like ... Percy Jackson
Middle Grade Spotlight on eBooks & Audiobooks
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Youth: Fantasy for grades 4-8
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Youth: Fantasy for grades 4-8
Description
Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day...but now he's a prisoner, accused of an unknown crime by one of the world's most powerful men. Along with his faithful sidekick, Arent Hayes, they're sailing back to Amsterdam from the East Indies, where he'll stand trial. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. Still shackled in his cell, Pipps sends Hayes to solve a mystery that connects every passenger on board....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of ten short stories, some of which were previously available online, that follow Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world, searching for a relic from his past
The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. Over many years Brother Zachariah-- once called Jem Carstairs-- travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world, searching for a relic from his past....
Author
Series
Hell's library novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second installment of this richly imagined fantasy adventure series, a new threat from within the Library itself could destroy those within it. The Library of the Unwritten in Hell was saved from total devastation, but hundreds of potential books were destroyed, and the dreams that were held within them will never be realized. When the remnants of those books begin to leak a strange ink, and damsels keep disappearing and reappearing in the...
Author
Series
Will Wilder volume 3
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Will Wilder yearns to join the Perilous Falls Middle School football team. But he was never big enough or strong enough to make the cut, until he comes in contact with a talisman containing the fabled locks of Samson. But using the Amulet of Power attracts dark forces to Perilous Falls like moths to a flame. Suddenly, hunched creatures are shadowing people around town, graves are being disturbed, the music of a mysterious DJ lulls half of Perilous...
Author
Series
The tapestry volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a personal tragedy but determined to stop the demon Astaroth, twelve-year-old Max McDaniel sets out from Rowan, where magic and nature flourish so long as the people do not oppose the demon, and travels through the preindustrial nightmare Astaroth has created using the Book of Origins
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