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21) The fascinators
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"San doesn't know where he'd be without James and Delia. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, he needs their friendship--and their time together in their school's magic club--to see him through to graduation. But as soon as senior year stars, little cracks in their group begin to show. Sam may or may not be in love with James, who may or may not have a crush on a girl from his church. Delia wants to get into a hyper-competitive magic...
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Description
Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eddie Paulsen, sixth-grade football fanatic, is having the worst time of his life -- his father moves out, his football team is not coming together, he likes his best friend's sister, and his friends think he's a jerk. Eddie and his father learn together what life's real priorities are.
24) XOXO
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny and her mother arrive in South Korea to take care of her...
25) The nutcracker
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Series
Formats
Description
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When Evie Perez is cut off from everything she loves and forced to move to Iceland for the summer, she takes her canvas and paintbrushes into the picturesque cherry orchard behind her guesthouse. She stains her lips with stolen cherries in the midnight sun and paints a boy she's never met. Oskar is startled to discover Evie in his family's orchard, and even more surprised to see himself on her canvas. Too ashamed to reveal his stutter, he remains...
27) Serpentine
Author
Series
Serpentine volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Inspired by the rich history of Chinese mythology, this fantasy is set in the ancient Kingdom of Xia and tells the coming-of-age story of Skybright, a young girl who worries about her growing otherness. As she turns 16, Skybright notices troubling changes. By day, she's a companion and handmaid to the youngest daughter of a very wealthy family. But nighttime brings with it a darkness that not even daybreak can quell. When her plight can no longer...
28) Hearts unbroken
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Jo O'Connor, accustomed to moving from place to place with her father, has learned not to get too close to people, but that changes in her senior year when she makes a best friend and falls in love--which only complicates matters when she is forced to move again.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"It's 1871, and Emmeline Carter is poised to take Chicago's high society by storm. Between her father's sudden rise to wealth and her recent engagement to Chicago's most eligible bachelor, Emmeline has it all. But she can't stop thinking about the life she left behind, including her childhood sweetheart, Anders Magnuson. Fiona Byrne, Emmeline's childhood best friend, is delighted by her friend's sudden rise to prominence, especially since it means...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start... until she starts seeing the "wrong things." They're just momentary glimpses at first - her front door is red instead of green, there's a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours and Nat knows something isn't right. Then there are the visits from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her,...
33) Only love
Author
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
When she finds herself the object of a young man's love, a spirited, physically handicapped 16-year-old is both touched and frightened for she knows she may now have to share her painful secret.
34) La casita azul
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Cintia, una muchacha de 12 aänos, va a menudo a una casa azul para alejarse de su padre, un hombre violento. Esa casa es mâagica. Una vez al aäno, la casa se vuelve azul hasta el dâia siguiente, cuando vuelve a ser blanca.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
High-school senior Alexa Brooks is trying to forget about her former potential boyfriend, Carson Knight, who is now a heartthrob actor renamed Cayden McKnight, so when a school assignment brings them together, Alexa must enter the world of bright lights to try to make amends.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The first time Elliott Youngblood spots Catherine Calhoun, he's just a boy with a camera, and he's never seen a sadder and more beautiful sight. Both Elliott and Catherine feel like outcasts, yet they find an easy friendship with each other. But when Catherine needs him most, Elliott is forced to leave town. Elliott finally returns, but he and Catherine are now different people. He's a star high school athlete, and she spends all her free time working...