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Conjuring demons seems like something you should not be able to do by accident, right? Well, normally it isn’t. But Bernadette Crowley is the perfect storm of magical accidents. For the youngest in a long line of witches, demons used to be no big deal. A spell and a quick prick of the finger, and […]

Middle School

Twelve-year-old Garnet regrets that she doesn’t know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan and their dark, dangerous mansion known as Crossroad House. But when Garnet finally gets summoned to the estate, it isn’t quite what she hoped for. […]

Middle School

Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was six years old. As a result, he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He’s been home-schooled by the residents up until the day the county’s truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to […]

5th Grade and Up

The Beatles are the greatest, most influential, and bestselling band in history They knew that the best music is the music you make together.   This book marks the first time Brad Meltzer has written about more than one person. Because of this, the layout is different and sometimes a bit confusing to read. Other […]

Kindergarten and Up

When Tanzy, an African elephant, mysteriously disappears after her herd escapes its private sanctuary and causes chaos at a local football game, her owners suspect foul play. But the local police don’t buy it, so junior detective Teddy Fitzroy is recruited to find her. He soon discovers that Tanzy may be in grave danger. Then […]

4th Grade and Up

Content Warning: This story includes racial slurs, antisemitism, murder, torture, and concentration camps. Reader discretion is advised.   Max is on a mission. Well, two missions. One has been assigned by his British spymasters: Infiltrate the Funkhaus, the center of Nazi radio and propaganda. The other, they have forbidden: Find his parents. Max Bretzfeld was […]

Advanced Middle School and Up

Nothing ever happens in Roswell, New Mexico. Dorothy should know. She’s lived her whole life on a rural ranch nearby, surrounded by the difficult memories from her family’s struggles to make ends meet during the Great Depression years ago. At least her older brother Dwight is home safe from the war. Unfortunately, he’s no better to […]

Middle School

Lavinia “Vin” Lucas is out of control and out of options. Stranded by parents who would rather use their average magical abilities to study dung beetles than raise her, Vin’s been on her own for years. But she’s never been able to corral her own powerful, unpredictable magic. After years of detention, suspension, and expulsion […]

Middle School

Content Warning: This story includes depression, depiction of war, mentions of assault   It’s 1940, and Jody is moving with her military family yet again. This time, to a small naval base in Pearl Harbor. She’s always created a “top ten” list for each new home to help her adjust, and with Hawaii being so […]

Advanced Middle School and Up

Ava Baldwin is ready for her second year at the Accademia del Forte. Now that she knows that her fellow classmates, descendants of the so-called Greek monsters, have been lied to by the Olympians, she’s ready to help them uncover their ancestors’ true stories—if only she can stay out of the way of the new […]

Middle School