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Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
2) Middlegame
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the authors show, the writings of medieval alchemists may seem like the ravings of brain-addled fools, but there is more to the story than that. Recent scholarship has shown that some seemingly nonsensical mysticism is, in fact, decipherable code, and Western European alchemists functioned from a firmer theoretical foundation than previously thought. They had a guiding principle, based on experience: separate and purify materials by fire and reconstitute...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sharpshooter Margaret Welty and alchemical apprentice Weston Winters form an unlikely team competing for glory in a magical fox hunt--while she wants to lure her mother home, Wes needs the prize money to support his family and his political aspirations.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
My own Yara, if you are reading this, the something terrible has happened, and you are on your own. To return to the city of Zehaira, you must read out the words on the back of this letter... good luck, my brave girl.
When twelve-year-old Yara's mother passes away, she leaves behind a letter and a strange set of instructions. Yara must travel from the home she has always known to a place that is not on any map--Zehaira, a world of sorcerers, alchemists,...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1792, after leaving her violently mad mother behind in revolutionary France, seventeen-year-old Thea Hope travels to England, where she risks losing her own sanity when she creates the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to continue their search for the Codex.
10) The magician
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Series
The Time-Tripping Faradays volume 1
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
158 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their parents, two temporal researchers who travel through time to document history, are transferred to 17th-century Prague, Dawk and Hype hardly expect to find themselves in the middle of an alchemical mystery. In fact, the new, boring job is meant to be a punishment for Dawk and Hype's bad behavior at their last temporal post. The teenagers are from the 25th century--how could medieval Prague compare? But when they meet a man who claims he...
13) The necromancer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Back in London, twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.