Patricia C. Wrede
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
This collection of short stories featuring enchantments offers a surprisingly varied selection. Most of the stories are set in a place of high fantasy--long ago and far away--yet several have modern settings. One is based on a fairy tale, another on a ballad, and a third was inspired by the biblical parable of the prodigal son. Even readers who aren't drawn to the literature of sword and sorcery may enjoy "Utensile Strength," a humorous tale in which...
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
Author
Series
Cecelia and Kate novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Eff is an unlucky thirteenth child - her twin brother, Lan, is a powerful seventh son of a seventh son. And yet, Eff is the one who saved the day for the settlements west of the Great Barrier. Her unique ways of doing magic and seeing the world, and her fascination with the magical creatures and land in the Great Plains push Eff to work toward joining an expedition heading west. But things are changing on the frontier. There are new professors of...
Author
Series
Mairelon novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The life of Kim, a street urchin living by her wits in the mean streets of London, changes after she meets Mairelon the traveling magician.
Author
Series
Dark Lord's daughter volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Kayla is just an ordinary girl . . . or so she thinks. When a day at the state fair is interrupted by the news that she’s the daughter of a “Dark Lord,” she and her family are quickly whisked to another world--one that’s chock-full of magic but lacking in technology! As her family encounters fantastical creatures in place of their Earthly gadgets, Kayla must prepare for meeting her father, the Dark Lord himself, for the very first time. All...
12) The far west
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When the unlucky magical twin Eff joins an expedition to map the Far West, she endures a long prairie winter and encounters with previously unknown creatures before realizing the importance of ending a magical flood.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Mairelon the magician. "There's magic in the streets of London, there's sorcery in the village lanes; there's a plot that has all of Society talking in an England that never was, but should have been...".
Magician's ward. The continuing story of a street urchin being groomed as a lady in an alternate Regency England. She is Kim who has fallen in love with her guardian, the magician Richard Merrill, and she is about to impress him with her street...
Author
Series
Enchanted forest chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
With the aid of King Mandanbar, Princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked wizards.
17) Shadow magic
Author
Series
Lyra books volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A princess fights a faceless enemy in a forest filled with magic in this tale of “high-style fantasy and adventure” from the author of Dealing with Dragons (The New York Times).