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The Night Parade

Kathryn Tanquary · 332 pages

Saki's boring summer might be her last when a Japanese curse casts her into the Night Parade. Will Pippa's tall tales get her into trouble? Read her super-secret diary to find out!

CursesQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine · 248 pages

A kingdom beset by monsters, a disease that weakens and destroys, an epic poem and a hero of long ago, a story of danger and desperation. The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each o

CursesQuest NarrativeMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · 384 pages

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemie

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Rise of the Evening Star

Brandon Mull · 452 pages

At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother Seth find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists -- a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper -- to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infilt

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Spelled

Betsy Schow · 344 pages

As the crown princess of Emerald, Dorthea lives a charmed life full of Hans Christian Louboutin glass slippers and Glenda Original ball gowns. But when she unknowingly wishes upon a cursed star, all spell breaks loose and the rules of fairy tale disappear--taking Dorthea's parents with them.

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The Isle of the Lost

Melissa de la Cruz

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye, the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.

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The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer · 448 pages

Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),

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The Sleeper and the Spindle

Neil Gaiman · 70 pages

On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C.S. Lewis · 223 pages

Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin travel back to Narnia through a painting where they board a ship named "The Dawn Treader." They find King Caspian and a mouse on the ship and they find mystical creatures and go on a mission that will decide Narnia's fate!

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Destined for Doon

Carey Corp, Lorie Langdon · 344 pages

Kenna realizes she made a mistake in leaving Doon behind forever and now she has received her Calling--proof she and Duncan are meant to be--then Duncan informs Kenna Doon needs her, but even if she can save the enchanted kingdom, her happy ending is far from assured.

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InuYasha: Turning Back Time

Rumiko Takahashi · 186 pages

Kagome, a young school girl from modern-day Japan, gets pulled into a time portal and transported back to feudal Japan where she discovers that her destiny is linked to that of Inu-Yasha, a doglike half-demon, and together, they search for the Shikon Jewel which can fulfull the dreams of any man or monster.

CursesQuest NarrativeFantasyFemale Lead
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Raven Flight

Juliet Marillier · 406 pages

"To rescue her homeland from tyranny, Neryn must seek out the powerful Guardians to complete her training as a Caller"--

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Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Maggie Stiefvater · 400 pages

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.

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Rapture

Lauren Kate

O céu está escuro com asas. . . . Como areia numa ampulheta, o tempo está se esgotando para Luce e Daniel. Para parar Lúcifer de apagar o passado eles devem encontrar o lugar onde os anjos caíram na terra. Forças das trevas estão atrás deles, e Daniel não sabe se ele pode fazer isso, viver só para perder Luce novamente e novamente. No entanto, juntos eles vão enfrentar uma batalha épica que vai

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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

Jessica Day George · 344 pages

"Blessed" or "cursed" with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) has always been an oddball. And when an isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent sta

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Talking to Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 255 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA science fiction. Young Daystar, raised by his mother Cimorene at the edge of the Enchanted Forest, is sent out on an adventure with a magical sword, meeting a young fire witch and an immature dragon on the way. This is the fourth book of the Enchanted Forest series, and takes place a generation after the first.

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Tiger's Destiny

Colleen Houck · 455 pages

Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.

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The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge · 272 pages

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13 Curses

Michelle Harrison

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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

CursesQuest NarrativeFantasyFemale Lead
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The Unlikely Ones

Mary Brown · 429 pages

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Journey's End

Rachel Hawkins · 286 pages

Faced with a mysterious, deadly fog bank in a seaside Scottish village, new friends Nolie and Bel look for ways to stop it--coming across an ancient spell that requires magic, a quest, and a sacrifice.

ScotlandMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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East

Edith Pattou · 509 pages

Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever. So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away wit

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