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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Magical Adventures for Middle Grade Kids
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Magical Adventures for Middle Grade Kids
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor African American girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like...
23) Everneath
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Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.
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La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. Gray spends her summers in the tiny town, the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World. And the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. How can someone vanish into thin air in a town full of psychics? As she digs into the night that Elora went missing, Grey begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something. When a...
25) Dark waters
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Friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian discover their nemesis, the Smiling Man, is back when the group goes sailing on Lake Champlain with their parents and Brian's former best friend Phil, and their boat becomes shipwrecked on a mist-covered island. Hunted by snakelike creatures, the group will have to find a way around the Smiling Man's tricks to escape the island alive.
26) Rebel belle
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"Seventeen-year-old Harper Price's charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who's an Oracle"-- Provided by publisher.
27) Shallow graves
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After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
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"Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before--the city where her parents lived,...
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"Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas -- the hearing child of a Deaf adult -- jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from...
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Seventeen-year-old Lucas has grown up splitting his time on the mainland and on Puerto Rico, hearing stories about Isabel, the cursed girl, with poisonous green skin and grass for hair. Some stories say she grants wishes, but many say she can kill with a touch. After Lucas' girlfriend disappears, letters ostensibly from Isabel arrive for him, and soon Lucas is drawn into a strange, enchanted, and deadly adventure.
31) Jackaby
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When she arrives in new England in 1892, Abigail Rook lands a job with R.F. Jackaby, an investigator who insists the supernatural is real. Their first case is tracking down a serial killer the police refuse to say is an inhuman creature, except for handsome detective Charlie Cane, who joins them in the investigation.
32) Dead ever after
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When Sookie learns the reason why Eric's vampires are keeping their distance from her, she is devastated. Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime in this final Sookie Stackhouse novel.
33) Coraline
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
34) The hollow boy
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"Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"-- Provided by publisher.
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Toby Daye, half fae and half human, is the only changeling who has ever earned knighthood in the Faerie world. Her current mission: to visit the County of Tamed Lightning (Fremont, California) and check on Countess January O'Leary, who has been out of contact. This simple assignment becomes deadly when people close to January start turning up dead, and it's up to Toby to find and stop the killer.
37) The Institute
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
39) Strange candy
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story-now in paperback.
From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework, readers will revel in the many twists and turns of fortune in these fantastical...
From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework, readers will revel in the many twists and turns of fortune in these fantastical...