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Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an atmosphere of uncertainty, as the magical world begins to face the fact that the evil wizard Voldemort is alive and active once again.
Author
Series
[The Harry Potter series] volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1958
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
xteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
67 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After buying a strange old wardrobe, Adam Caine and his mom are confronted by an old woman who claims that it belongs to her. The store owner explains that "The Witch" has been shouting curses at people for years but is harmless. However, when the movers are delivering the wardrobe, the door suddenly swings open and out falls the old woman--dead! How did she end up inside the wardrobe? More importantly, what happened to her?"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
I escaped volume 6
Publisher
Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
114 pages illustrations 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brave young orphan is caught up in the Salem Witch Trials, the largest and most lethal witch-hunt in American history. Can she escape disaster?
Author
Series
Mayfair witches volume 1
Language
English
Description
On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking . . . and The Witching Hour begins.
It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery--aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches--finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
204 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
"The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has...
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 5
Language
English
Description
Fifth-year student Harry Potter has disturbing dreams awakening him in terror and must rely on his friends for help when the authorities at Hogwarts are unable to cope with the unreliability of the government of the magical world.
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 294 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a 1597 manual for witch hunters by King James to court papers from the Salem witch trials, primary source documents provide historical accounts of accused witches from medieval Europe to early-nineteenth century America.
18) Texas Gothic
Author
Series
Goodnight Family volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost.