JFIC Stand Alone Books


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"When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours"--
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"A young adventurer races to break the family curse by repatriating the artifacts her famed ancestor "saved.""--
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While organizing a Human Con at Monster High, Cleo De Nile becomes cursed by the crown for the costume contest and must break the spell with the help of her friends.
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"Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
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"The Great Winter Academy for the Extraordinarily Talented is made up of students with paranormal and fantastical abilities. This year, YOU are one of three students who receive the impossible curse-- retrieve a long lost heirloom stolen by the rival school, or die trying. Nobody has successfully broken the curse before, and many have met grisly ends. Will you try to find a way out of your curse? Or will you infiltrate the ranks of your rivals?"--...
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When twelve-year-old Charlie discovers her new home in Florida is haunted by three ghosts cursed for stealing a diamond, she hatches a plan to find and sell the diamond to return to New York City, but must first confront her past and face a school bully.
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"A young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that's haunted their family for generations, or be trapped in an amulet forever."--
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On Halloween night, seventh-grader Mason travels into an alternate world to save his sister from an evil witch and break a curse that has plagued his town for years.
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Candelabra's sister is trapped in a painting, and nothing in the kingdom Nefaria has helped--but the most powerful magic object in the world is in disaster-prone Joviala, and that is where Candelabra and the other exchange students are headed.
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"Twelve-year-old Anna Grimsbane journeys into monster-filled woods to save her brother, who has been cursed by a witch known as The Watcher"--
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"A quartet of thirteen-year-old boys' friendship is tested by ghosts, haunted houses, secret crushes, and a hundred-year-old curse"--
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"In Galveston Bay, Texas, twelve-year-old twin sisters team up, despite drastically different personalities, to save their family from a bitter witch's curse"--
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"Lola Reyes doesn't want to leave Guatemala, a place full of warmth and sun, laughter and music--where her abuela and prima and to̕s and ta̕s surround her with love. Back in Sunnyside, it's cold. There's schoolwork and chores. And her mama transforms into Lola's super-serious school principal, Dr. Reyes. Back at home... Lola can see, crystal clear, the empty place where Pop used to be. So Lola decides to bring a little bit of Guatemala--and Pop--back...
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5 stars
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You trained in Japan to become a powerful ninja, and now your skills are needed in San Francisco. You are far from the magical dojo you once called home. But has the dojo's strange curse followed you into your new life? You recognize ruthless gangsters you've crossed paths with before. Did they follow you here? You hear rumors that priceless antiques are making their way along the same route you just traveled--will the thefts be blamed on you?
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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4.3 stars
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Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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2 stars
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Cursed Princess Harbor Rose lives on a remote island as she waits for a hero to sweep her away, but when a foe rooted in dark magic threatens her beloved island, Harbor Rose must find a way to call the hero before time runs out.
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Eleven-year-old podcaster-turned-sleuth, Roya, teams up with the new kid in the building, Stefanie, to find their missing neighbor.

19. Ratty

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A twelve-year-old boy who transformed into a rat at birth seeks to undo his family's curse at their abandoned estate where he forms an unlikely friendship with a girl who loathes rodents.
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When Hannah and her friends play a Ouija-style game in their school attic, they unleash an evil spirit that curses Hannah and communicates with her through her diary.