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Amari volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
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Pandava volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has the tendency to stretch the truth to fit in at school. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.
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Blackthorn key volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the powerto tear the world apart.
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Book of Storms volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When his parents disappear after a fierce storm, eleven-year-old Danny, unaccustomed to acts of bravery, comes to their rescue after finding a valuable shard of wood that enables him to talk to plants and animals and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies,including the demonic Sammael.
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Camp Sylvania volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight...if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp--and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
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Five elements volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Finding an old map, Gabe and his friends follow clues to a secret chamber beneath San Francisco, where they perform what they think is a friendship ritual before strange events reveal a sinister cult from a parallel realm.
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Night frights volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are too busy shuffling off to work at the old coffin factory to notice or care, but the kids know all about monsters, ghosts, and strange lights in the sky. Strange things happen in Wolver Hollow. Creepy things. But fifth graders Parker and Lucas are determined to debunk one of Wolver Hollow's legends: Over a hundred years ago, Bockius Beauregard was vaporized in an unfortunate accident and all that...
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City of orphans volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
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Forgotten five volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Five children who are the offspring of supernatural criminals and who have special abilities of their own leave their isolated tropical home and head to the city of Estero, where they hope to find their parents and the treasure they hid years ago.
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Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.
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Omega Morales volume 1.
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"A girl must learn to trust herself--and her ancestral powers--when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza"--
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Paola Santiago volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
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Series:
Ravenfall volume 1.
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When thirteen-year-old Annabella Ballinkay arrives at the magical Ravenfall Inn, she is eager to help fourteen-year-old Colin Pierce in his search for his missing older brother and a supernatural creature who killed their parents. As the two team up in search for answers, they soon discover that Colin has powers beyond his imagination, and must stop the supernatural creature from opening a portal to the Otherworld by Halloween night.
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Series:
Lockwood & Co volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
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4.3 stars
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Serwa Boateng volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially when she has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces.
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.
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Tristan Strong volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky. Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month...
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.