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The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series

Rick Yancey - Speak
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace MoretzThe Passage meets Ender's Game in the first book in an epic series by award-winning author Rick Yancey. "Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment...
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Anyas Ghost

Vera Brosgol - First Second
Format: Hardcover

Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isnt kidding about the "Forever" part . . . Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend whos been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough,...
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The Beasties

William Sleator - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Book

The master of suspense delivers a hard-core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator. The nightmare begins when Doug's family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colette,...
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The Crossroads

Chris Grabenstein - Random House
Format: Book

ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash,...
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A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide...
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The Devouring

Simon Holt - Little
Format: Paperback

When Reggie finds an old journal and reads about the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, she assumes they are just the musings of some lunatic author. But soon, they become a terrifying reality when she begins to suspect that her timid...
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Fablehaven

Brandon Mull - Aladdin Paperbacks/Simon & Schuster Children's
Format: Paperback

Fablehaven, a sanctuary for mystical creatures, survives as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Kendra and her brother Seth do not know their grandfather is the current caretaker, but they soon face the challenge of their lives when powerful forces of evil are unleashed.
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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well...
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Malice: Book 1

Chris Wooding - Scholastic
Format: Book

Everyone's heard of it...but nobody's read it. Luke, Seth, and Kady have heard all the stories about Malice - a secret comic about a strange, awful world full of tricks and traps, and overseen by a sinister master of ceremonies, Tall Jake. But if the rumours are to be believed, the children...
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Revenge of the Witch

Joseph Delaney - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

Capturing witchesBinding boggartsDriving away ghostsFor years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried-some floundered, some fled, some failed...
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A Taste for Red

Lewis Harris - Clarion Books
Format: Print book

A sixth-grade Goth girl who thinks she's a vampire encounters her greatest nemesis when she enrolls at Sunny Hill Middle School in this hilarious and entirely original take on the vampire genre for middle graders.Svetlana Grimm has recently discovered she's a vampire. The clues are all there:...
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Thief's Covenant

Ari Marmell - Pyr
Format: Print book

Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city's aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy tale. Until one horrid night, when a conspiracy of forces--human and other--stole it all away...
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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Kenneth Oppel - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark Library, and secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are discovered....
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