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Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant Caz--a magically sentient spider plant--have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire's most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city's elite. Then a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames. She and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela...
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie's parents run a secret shop where dreams are bought and sold. When Sophie dreams, her dreams become real, so she is forbidden to have any. Sinister events are set in motion when she is accidentally seen by one of her parents' customers, and it's up to Sophie to save her family"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Date
[2026]
Language
English
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Description
After her boyfriend cheats on her and ruins her summer, sixteen-year-old Calisa escapes to rural Vermont to help her great-aunt run the Faraway Inn, only to discover a rundown inn in need of repair, the groundkeeper's handsome son, and mysterious, almost otherworldly secrets lurking among its residents.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Claire has grown up cycling through every worst-case scenario possible: Triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It's just how she's wired - her worst-case scenarios never actually come true. Until she arrives at the off-the-grid summer camp her parents sent her to, only to find a blackened, burned husk where a lodge should be - and no survivors. Claire and the other two late arrivals, Reyva and Mariana, are the...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Renthia, everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river. But the spirits of the land want to rid it of all humans. The queen is the only woman who stands between the spirits and the end of humankind, and no matter how strong or good the queen is, the threat of danger always looms. And so, Daleina is one of the young women chosen and trained as heirs to the throne. She joins forces with Ven,...
7) Spark
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Naturally quiet since birth, Mina and her stormbeast, Pixit, lead others like themselves in defying authority and attempting to spread the truth that Alorria's idyllic weather comes at a steep cost.
8) Catalyst
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zoe's rescue kitten quickly becomes a giant, talking cat that Zoe and her friend Harrison must keep hidden, especially since there are rumors of other strange creatures in their town.
9) Spy ring
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft, especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon's parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna "Nancy" Smith Strong, according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington's famed Culper...
10) The shelterlings
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Holly, a grey squirrel, and her animal friends have accepted that they will never be wizards' familiars. Though they are each magical, their powers are so offbeat--that no professional magic-worker would choose any of them. So instead of going on adventures, they languish at the Shelter for Rejected Familiars, where they are known as 'shelterlings.' When an old friend appears with a plan for curing the shelterlings' defective magic, everyone is on...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When two princesses--twin sisters--travel to pay respects to their kingdom's dragon guardian, unexpected monsters appear, and tremors shake the earth. The Hidden Islands face unprecedented threats, and the old rituals are failing. With only their strength, ingenuity, and flying lion to rely on, can the sisters find a new way to keep their people safe?"-- Provided by publisher.
12) The lost
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It was only meant to be a brief detour. But then Lauren finds herself trapped in a town called Lost on the edge of a desert, filled with things abandoned, broken and thrown away. And when she tries to escape, impassible dust storms and something unexplainable lead her back to Lost again and again. The residents she meets there tell her she's going to have to figure out just what she's missing--and what she's running from--before she can leave. So...
13) Even and Odd
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When sisters Even and Odd are trapped and unable to return home to the mundane world they live in, they, with the help of a unicorn named Jeremy, must stop a power-mad wizard from creating an ecological disaster.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A girl made of stone, forever twelve years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue.
15) Conjured
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury/Walker
Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by disturbing dreams and terrifying visions, a teenaged girl in a paranormal witness protection program must remember her past and why she has strange abilities before a magic-wielding serial killer hunts her down.
16) Vessel
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them.
17) Fire & heist
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As Sky Hawkins, a were-dragon, faces her first heist she discovers secrets about her missing mother, the true reason her boyfriend broke up with her, and the valuable jewel that could restore her family's wealth and rank.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
After sixteen-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Life is precious and precarious on the islands of Belene. Besieged by a capricious ocean full of malicious spirits, the people of the islands seek joy where they can. Mayara, one of the island's fearless oyster divers, has found happiness in love. But on the day of her wedding to the artist Kelo, a spirit-driven storm hits the island with deadly force. To save her loved ones, Mayara reveals a dangerous secret: she has the power to control the spirits....



