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Author
Series
Mythics volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Hailey and her four fellow Mythics set out to find her mythical beast familiar and fight a powerful villain along the way, she realizes what it means to be part of a team.
Author
Series
Book of dust volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, are used to overhearing news and the occasional scandal at the inn run by his family. But during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm finds a mysterious object - and finds himself in grave danger. Inside the object is a cryptic message about something called Dust; and it's not long before Malcolm is approached by the spy for whom this message was actually intended. When she asks Malcom to keep his eyes open, he...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
7) The jumbies
Author
Series
Jumbies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
8) Exit point
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 470L
Language
English
Description
After dying in a drunk-driving accident, Logan finds himself roaming around with helpful spirits in the afterlife who give him the strength to change his ways and complete the one important task he promised his sister he would always do.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the dayof the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
10) Far away
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old CJ believes her mom is dead and that she can only communicate with her through her aunt, who is a medium, but when CJ finds out that her mother is actually alive, she goes on a journey to find her.
12) Never that far
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Libby's grandfather dies of a heart attack, it's up to her--and his spirit--to find a way to help her father overcome his grief and for their family to find peace."--
13) Cemetery boys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinne when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
16) Flux
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Deep in another reality, while using her ability to travel to parallel worlds, Nellie uncovers a conspiracy to abduct children for an experimental laboratory.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mama says jumbies exist only in stories. So Naya sets out on a nighttime adventure to find out for herself ... Naya is sure that jumbies are real. Some have big mouths. Or thick fur. Or glowing skin. Or sharp teeth. Kind of like her new friends"--
19) The Twelve
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Usagi can hear a squirrel's heartbeat from a mile away, and soar over treetops in one giant leap. She was born in the year of the wood rabbit, and it's given her extraordinary zodiac gifts. But she can never use them, not while the mysterious, vicious Dragonlord hunts down all those in her land with zodiac powers. Instead, she must keep her abilities--and those of her rambunctious sister Uma--a secret. After Uma is captured by the Dragonguard, Usagi...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Penhallow Fitch, a gargoyle assigned to protect a Boston apartment building, must fight against evil spirits called Netherkin and the Boneless King to keep the residents of the building and the city safe.
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