Holly Black
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
"As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"--
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
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Description
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people...
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Callum Hunt's life has been difficult ever since he was admitted to the Magisterium, since his father suspects him of being evil, and his closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf--but when he discovers that his father may be trying to destroy both him and Havoc, he escapes back to the magical world and he and his friends Aaron and Tamara, become involved in the search for the stolen Alkahest, a copper gauntlet with dangerous powers.
7) White cat
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow.
9) Red glove
Author
Series
Curse workers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
10) The iron trial
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
11) Doll bones
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prince Oak must find a way to stop a war between Elfhame and the north. Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. With High King Cardan and High Queen Jude willing to use any means necessary to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak will have to decide whether to attempt regaining the trust of the girl he's always loved or to remain...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Book 3—Lucinda's Secret
Things at the Spiderwick estate are getting completely out of hand. If being attacked by a band of marauding goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, how Jared is being harassed by Thimbletack, the house boggart, and Simon has a very hungry griffin recuperating in the carriage house. Mallory is convinced that the only way to stop the madness is to chuck the Guide. But that's not an option. With all...
Things at the Spiderwick estate are getting completely out of hand. If being attacked by a band of marauding goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, how Jared is being harassed by Thimbletack, the house boggart, and Simon has a very hungry griffin recuperating in the carriage house. Mallory is convinced that the only way to stop the madness is to chuck the Guide. But that's not an option. With all...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Bruised and battered, Jared, Simon, and Mallory return home to find their home ransacked and learn that Mulgarath has made off with their mother and Spiderwick's Guide. With only the help of Thimbletack, Hogsqueal and Byron, the Grace kids have to defeat Mulgarath and his goblin army. But they have to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from Lorengorn and the elves first.
16) The wicked king
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished....
17) The golden tower
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
As Callum begins his final year at the Magisterium, he is estranged from most of his friends and a furtive darkness haunts him.
18) A giant problem
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
19) The stolen heir
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"The changeling queen, Suren, must venture back into the Court of Teeth with the help of the Prince of Faerie, Oak"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl wagers her soul in a sour-gummy-frog-eating contest with the devil. Love and a homemade coat rescue a boy from his fairyland jailers. A newly bitten teenage vampire uses the Internet to show the world just how uncool the "cold" life is. In this collection of stories, the supernatural intersects with everyday life in surprising and dangerous ways.