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The Lost Years of Merlin

T. A. Barron

When Merlin, suffering from a case of severe amnesia, discovers his strange powers, he becomes determined to discover his identity and flees to Fincayra where he fulfills his destiny, saving Fincayra from certain destruction and claiming his birthright and true name. Show...
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The Iron Trial

Holly Black - Scholastic Pr
Format: Book

From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father...
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Bad Magic

Pseudonymous Bosch - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A magical new series from Pseudonymous Bosh the bestselling author of the Secret Series Magic sucks Don t look so shocked You may not think magic is bad but the protagonist of our story Clay certainly does And really who can blame him After all it is a magic journal that getshim expelled...
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The Boggart

Susan Cooper - M.K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

In a tumbledown castle in the Western Highlands of Scotland lives the Boggart. He is invisible -- an ancient mischievous spirit, solitary and sly, born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves. He has lived in Castle Keep for centuries, playing tricks on the owners. But the last Scottish...
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The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper - Simon Pulse
Format: Mass Market Paperback

On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift - that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated throughout the ages to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. He is plunged at once into a quest for the six magical...
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The Witches

Roald Dahl - Puffin; Unabridged edition
Format: Paperback

This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches.Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. Theres nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson...
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The Brixen Witch

Stacy DeKeyser - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

An enchanted coin. A witch's curse. And rats, rats everywhere! What's a boy to do?When Rudi Bauer accidentally takes a witch's coin, he unleashes her curse. Accident or not, he knows he's got to fix things, so he tries to return the coin, only to lose it on the witch's...
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Half Magic (Tales of Magic)

Edward Eager

Since Half Magic first hit bookshelves in 1954, Edward Eagers tales of magic have become beloved classics. Now four cherished stories by Edward Eager about vacationing cousins who stumble into magical doings and whimsical adventures are available in updated hardcover and paperback formats....
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The Time Garden

Edward Eager - Harcourt Brace
Format: Print book

Four cousins spending a summer in a house by the sea discover a magic thyme garden from which they embark on a number of adventures in time.
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The Vengekeep Prophecies

Brian Farrey - Harper
Format: Print book

Forget what you know about prophecies - this epic middle-grade fantasy about a clumsy boy born into a family of thieves is fresh, fun, and anything but predictable! The first in an unforgettable trilogy, this Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year takes everything you thought you knew...
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Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact

A. J. Hartley - Razorbill; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society--now in paperback! Eleven-year-old Darwen Arkwright has spent his whole life in a tiny town in England. So when he is forced to move to Atlanta, Georgia, to live with his aunt, he knows things will be different--but what he finds there...
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Dark Lord of Derkholm

Diana Wynne Jones

Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones s
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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea,but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a recklessyouth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tamperedwith long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadowupon the world. This is the tale of his testing,how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed...
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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most...
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Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old. At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift - the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop...
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C S Lewis - HarperTrophy
Format: Paperback

A full-color paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-color cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.Four adventurous siblings - Peter, Susan,...
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Magician's Apprentice

Tom McGowen
Format: Book

A young pickpocket becomes apprenticed to a magician who opens a whole new world for the boy, not only of magic and healing, but of kindness and adventure. Together they seek knowledge lost since the Age of Magic thousands of years before.
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The Unwanteds

Lisa McMann - Aladdin; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind...
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Gods of Manhattan

Scott Mebus - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

Thirteen-year-old New Yorker Rory Hennessy can see things no one else can. When a magician's trick opens his eyes to Mannahatta, Rory finds an amazing spirit city coexisting alongside modern-day Manhattan. A place where Indian sachems, warrior cockroaches, and papier-mƒch‚...
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Pip and the Wood Witch Curse: A Spindlewood Tale

Chris Mould - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Dark, scary, and magnificently illustrated, this is a new series not to be missed! The great walled city of Hangman's Hollow is at war with the forest outside. Into this war, one dreadful night, fate delivers a skinny, helpless boy. But maybe Pip isn't as helpless as he seems. Maybe...
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The Aviary

Kathleen O'Dell - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where her mother is a servant to the kind and elderly matron of the house. Clara has never known another home. In fact, shes confined to the grand estate due to a mysterious heart condition. But its a comfortable...
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Liesl & Po

Lauren Oliver - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous novel that glows with rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the darkest of places. An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, its perfect for fans of the authors other middle grade novels: The Spindlers...
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The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman - Laurel Leaf
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Lyra Belaqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch...
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The Storm Makers

Jennifer E. Smith - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Enter the world of The Storm Makers, where theres magic behind every forecast. What starts as an ordinary summer turns exciting and perilous for twins Ruby and Simon when strange occurrences begin happening on their farm -- sudden gusts of wind, rainstorms, and even tornado warnings -- that...
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Magic Zero

Thomas E. Sniegoski - Aladdin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Timothy has great potential for power—no magic necessary—in this start to an action-packed fantasy series from two New York Times bestselling authors.In Timothy’s world, everyone has magical powers. Except him. He has spent his entire life as an outcast hidden on a remote...
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The Emerald Atlas

John Stephens - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

"A strong . . . new trilogy, invoking just a little Harry Potter and Series of Unfortunate Events along the way." - Realms of FantasySiblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage....
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Dragon's Green

Scarlett Thomas - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Neverending Story meets Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy in this first magical adventure in a new series from acclaimed novelist Scarlett Thomas.Effie Truelove believes in magic, as does her grandfather Griffin (although he refuses to do any magic, let alone teach Effie how to use it) . After...
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The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback

A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive...
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100 Cupboards: Book 1 of the 100 Cupboards

N. D. Wilson - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear...
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The Castle in the Attic

Elizabeth Winthrop
Format: Paperback

One of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!William has just received the best present of his lifean old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. Its the mysterious castle his housekeeper has told...
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Calling on Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

Patricia C. Wrede
Format: Book

After evil wizards steal King Mendanbar's magic sword, Queen Cimorene, Morwin the witch and her cats, Kazul the dragon-king, and Telemain the magician must retrieve it before the wizards drain all the magic from the Enchanted Forest. Show more Show less #outer_postBodyPS { display:...
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