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1) The jumbies
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Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 2
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"When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness-a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched"--...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen. Reviewers called Katherine Arden's novels The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower"lyrical,""emotionally stirring," and"utterly bewitching." The Winternight Trilogy introduced...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Amy Bruni, co-star of Kindred Spirits and one of the world's leading paranormal investigators, has learned a lot about ghosts over her years of research and first-hand experience. Now, in Life with the Afterlife, she shares the insight she has gleaned and how it has shaped her unique approach to interacting with the spirits of the dead and those who encounter them."--Dust jacket.
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Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
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"In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
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"In exchange for help entertaining her guests on 'spooky' vacations, Alison Kerby told her resident gumshoe ghost that she'd help him on the occasional case. But she didn't think she'd have to go through with it--after all, who goes to a dead private eye? The answer: other ghosts. The deceased Scott McFarlane got roped into a prank that may have killed a prominent local resident. With some snooping, it turns out the woman is alive--that is, of course,...
11) The tempest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern'sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the...
13) A nearer moon
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village. Now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
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"Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh's Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles--from Satanic indie movies of the '60s, to the unqiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro...pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the...
15) Ninth Ward
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
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In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
16) In 27 days
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Hadley Jamison is shocked when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, has committed suicide. She didn't know the quiet, reserved guy that well, but that doesn't stop her from feeling there was something she could have done to help him. Hoping to find some sense of closure, Hadley attends Archer's funeral. There, Hadley is approached by a man who calls himself Death and offers her a deal. If Hadley accepts, she will be sent back twenty-seven...
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The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
19) The restorer
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Series
Graveyard Queen series volume 1
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Discovering a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard, Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts, places her own life in danger as she tries to help a police detective assigned to the case.
20) Tree girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived, nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree she can just barely see from her home at the edge of the sea-especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.