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Diary of a Fairy Godmother

Esme Raji Codell, Rachael Lillis · back to the book

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Adventures from the Land of Stories: The Mother Goose Diaries

Chris Colfer · 128 pages

Get a front row seat to the adventures of the mischievous Mother Goose, a fan favorite character in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series, The Land of Stories. Mother Goose has had centuries of thrilling adventures and finally she's allowing her favorite readers to take a peek at all her secrets. Who else gossiped with Queen Elizabeth I, taught geography to Napoleon, marched for equal rights

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyFunny
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Black Maria

Diana Wynne Jones · 223 pages

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Calling on Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 244 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA fantasy. Cimorene, now Queen of the Enchanted Forest, her friend Morwen the witch, and various others search for the missing sword of the King. This is the third book in the Enchanted Forest series.

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFairy Tale Retelling
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The Salamander Spell

E.D. Baker · 249 pages

In this prequel to the "Tales of the Frog Princess", Grassina is a young princess-in-training. But as the younger sister to Princess Chartreuse, Grassina is not expected to do much beyond behave herself. When a terrible spell stops her mother from being the good Green Witch, and the Kingdom of Greater Greensward seems to teeter on the brink of terror, Grassina sets off on an errand in the swamp an

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFunny
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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

Heather Fawcett · 345 pages

"When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this second installment of the Emily Wilde series"-- Provided by publisher

Diary FormatCharmingFantasyFunny
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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyWitches & Witchcraft
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Awesome Friendly Kid

Jeff Kinney

Rowley Jefferson chronicles his life story and adventures. (Ages 9 to 12)

Diary FormatMiddle GradeCharmingFunny
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Sixsational

Meg Cabot · 238 pages

The novel that inspired the hit movie!Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultur

Diary FormatCharmingMiddle GradeFunny
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Anastasia Krupnik

Lois Lowry · 128 pages

Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeCharmingFunny
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How Mirka Met a Meteorite

Barry Deutsch · 123 pages

Mirka is back, and this time she takes on a misguided meteor who's been set in motion by the troll and turned into Mirka's twin by the witch. Doppelganger Mirka is out to best the real girl. Our heroine will have to beat her own other self in a three-park challenge ... or be banished from Hereville!

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyWitches & Witchcraft
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Earwig and the witch

Diana Wynne Jones, Paul O. Zelinsky, Miho Satake · 144 pages

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFunny
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A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch

Jill Murphy · 127 pages

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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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The Ordinary Princess

M.M. Kaye · 112 pages

Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she's so ordinary, easily beco

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFunny
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Kat, Incorrigible

Stephanie Burgis · 304 pages

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The Magic Thief

Sarah Prineas · 419 pages

A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeCharmingFantasy
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Diary of a Mad Brownie

Bruce Coville · 241 pages

In a story presented through diary entries and creative documents, Angus the magical brownie inherits a particularly messy human to look after and resolves to break the curse that binds them together. By the best-selling author of My Teacher Is an Alien.

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The Unfairest of Them All

Shannon Hale · 336 pages

It's the aftermath of Legacy Day, the day when the students at Ever After High are supposed to pledge to follow in their fairytale parents' footsteps, and everyone is in a huff and a puff! Raven Queen, daughter of the Evil Queen, has refused to sign the Storybook of Legends, rejecting her story--and putting everyone else's in jeopardy. The Royal Apple White doesn't want to think Raven is being

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFunny
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The Awesomely Awful Melodies of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang

Amy Ignatow · 203 pages

Lydia and Julie decide to start a rock band with their friends, unfortunately, none of them are very good musicians and suddenly the whole school knows about their band and wants to hear them play.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

Middle GradeCharmingFantasyFunny
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