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2) Graceful
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Angelina D'Angelo has left town to see the world. It's now Grace's turn to use her magic to protect the people of Willow Falls, and she is up to the challenge. This is her destiny, after all. But destiny is a funny thing - it doesn't always behave the way you'd expect it to.
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Evie loves healing people, and her medical work takes up so much time she never thinks about marrying anyone--so when Wormy, her friend and often test subject, suddenly proposes to her, Evie turns him down, not being in love with him in that way. Lucinda, though, doesn't approve of her rejection, and curses Evie to be a hideous ogre. If she does not find another suitor within sixty-two days she will be stuck as an ogre forever.
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"Freddie Ruiz is cursed. While other people may have bad days, Freddie and his family have had bad generations: from bird poop splatting on him during picture day to the many tumbles and trips that earned him the nickname Faceplant Freddie. He's learned to lay low and keep himself out of trouble--which means no fun, no friends, and definitely no risks. But when he discovers a family heirloom, a century-old amulet from the Philippines that's supposed...
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When their friend's younger sister enters a catatonic state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo investigate and discover the elderly local woman with an air of magical ability is somehow involved. In order to save their friend's sister, they must dig deep into the past to solve the mysteries of the present.
6) Speculation
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In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
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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 cursed house.
8) Curses!
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Malcolm and Dandy learn there is more to the mummy Tuturtikum than just a wad of rotting rags when they become victims of the curse.
10) Treasure trouble
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When, after finding buried treasure guarded by giant sand crabs, the crew of the Sea Rat comes down with a mysterious illness, the pirate students suspect that the treasure is cursed.
11) Juanita
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A fable about the annual blessing of the animals at Easter.
13) I want my mummy!
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Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country, and - SHAZAAM! - off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom whisks the class away to Egypt, they not only come face to face with a mummy, but have to solve the riddle of...
14) 13 curses
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When fairies steal her brother, thirteen-year-old Rowan Fox promises that in exchange for his return she will find the thirteen charms that the fairies have enchanted and hidden in the human world.
16) The last Martin
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Thirteen-year-old Martin Boyle struggles to break a family curse after discovering that he has only twelve weeks to live.
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"Of all the gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve, only one captures Marie Stahlbaum's heart: a humble nutcracker ... As midnight nears, he comes to life, revealing a fairy-tale world of magic and wonder, wicked princesses, and fierce battles--and an ancient curse that can only be broken with the help of a true friend. With the evil Mouse King looming and her dream world threatened, Marie will have to find the strength to stand up for her nutcracker--no...