Lyons Regional Library

When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as gardener, twelve-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be unraveled before disaster happens.

Adam Riley and his friends find out the truth about urban legends of a half-human monster when they participate in a campout from which kids begin disappearing one by one and Adam discovers ominous hoofprints in the woods.

Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kisses her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.

"When Isaac joins the notoriously terrible Middleton High baseball team, he gets frustrated by the lack of effort from his teammates. But then he learns the team is cursed and becomes determined to end it"--

After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.

In order to rid herself of the curse placed upon her by the devious Fate Spinner, Annalise must enter the Labyrinth of Fate and Dreams and face the Fate Spinner, showing the world--and herself--what she is made of.

"Maybe Archie Coomes has been watching too many horror movies. All of a sudden, the most ordinary things have taken on a sinister edge: a penny on a doormat. A man in a brown suit under a streetlamp. The persistent sound of an ax chopping in the middle of the night. He keeps telling himself that this is Seaham, a sleepy seaside town where nothing ever happens. Or at least nothing did, until his dad's construction company opened up the cliff beneath...

"Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now?" -- Back cover.

Seventh grader Tiffany Tudwell tries not to attract attention, but when she gains the ability to steal others' talents, Tiffany suddenly finds herself in the spotlight as she uses her powers to help save her dad's failing planetarium.

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.