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The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids."...
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The Emerald Atlas

John Stephens - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Called A new Narnia for the tween set by theNew York Timesand perfect for fans of theHis Dark Materialsseries,The Emerald Atlasbrims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emmas extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.These three siblings have been...
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Magyk

Angie Sage - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

The Magyk Begins HereSeptimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow - a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take her into...
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Ferals

Jacob Grey - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Ferals is the first book in a dark, action-packed trilogy that's part The Graveyard Book, part Batman, and all high-octane adventure.Blackstone was once a thriving metropolis. But that was before the Dark Summer - a wave of violence and crime that swept through the city eight years ago,...
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Inkheart

Cornelia Funke
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the sensational New York Times best-seller THE THIEF LORD comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure...
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Thresholds

Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Maya?s family has just moved from Idaho to Spores Ferry, Oregon. She?s nervous about starting middle school and making new friends, but soon that?s the last thing on her mind. First, a fairy flies into her room. Then it turns out that the kids in the apartment building next door do magic,...
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The Magic Thief

Sarah Prineas - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Hardcover

In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not....
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Loki's Wolves

K. L. Armstrong - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Book

The runes have spoken. We have our champion...Matthew Thorsen.Matt hears the words, but he cant believe them. Hes Thors representative? Destined to fight trolls, monstrous wolves and giant serpents...or the world ends? Hes only thirteen.While Matt knew he was a modern-day descendent of Thor,...
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Print book

Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed...
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The Gauntlet

Karuna Riazi - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that's a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.Nothing can prepare...
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The Ruins of Gorlan

John A. Flanagan - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the past - the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old...
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So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series

Diane Duane - Harcourt
Format: Paperback

Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked andfound that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But...
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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Paperback

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous....
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A World Without Heroes

Brandon Mull - Aladdin
Format: Paperback

Jason tumbles into a quest to save a magical in this #1 New York Times bestselling start to Brandon Mull's Beyonders fantasy series.Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable - until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo...
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Troubletwisters

Garth Nix - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Are you a troubletwister? Jaide and Jack Shields lives are changing in a very, very strange way. The weather is turning against them. Magical disasters occur when theyre around. And a mysterious explosion has just destroyed their house...from the inside. Without knowing why, the twins are stolen...
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The Castle Behind Thorns

Merrie Haskell - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

This magical adventure in an enchanted castle surrounded by thorns tells a tale of the power of memory and story, forgiveness and strength, and the true gifts of craft and imagination. By the acclaimed author of The Princess Curse and Handbook for Dragon Slayers, this original fantasy is perfect...
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Geek Fantasy Novel

E. Archer - Scholastic Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

What happens when a science geek and magic collide?Be careful what you wish for. Really. Because wishes are bad. Very bad. They can get you trapped in fantasy worlds full of killer bunny rabbits, evil aunts, and bothersome bacteria, for example. Or at least thats Ralphs experience. Hes been...
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C S Lewis - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

When Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are sent to stay with a kind Professor who lives in the country, they can hardly imagine the extraordinary adventure that awaits them.It all begins one rainy summer day when the children explore the Professor's rambling old house. When they come across...
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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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The School for Good and Evil

Soman Chainani - HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling The School for Good and Evil, the first book in the series, is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one. This paperback edition features an Extras section, giving readers a chance to see which...
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Keeper of the Lost Cities

Shannon Messenger - Aladdin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

In this riveting debut, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world—before the wrong person finds the answer first.Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older...
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The Unwanteds

Lisa McMann - Aladdin
Format: Paperback

A riveting middle-grade dystopian novel from New York Times bestselling Wake author Lisa McMann that Kirkus Reviews calls "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter."When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-year-olds...
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The Keepers: The Box and the Dragonfly

Ted Sanders - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Artifacts. Miseries. Mysteries . . .From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus--a sign with his own name on it--everything changes. The sighting leads him underground to the House of Answers, a hidden warehouse brimming with peculiar devices. But there he finds only questions....
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Story Thieves

James Riley - Aladdin; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

This "clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is the first in a new series from the bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring...
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller!"Poignant....A Harry Potter-esque adventure." --Time Magazine A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world--but is then tested...
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My Diary from the Edge of the World

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Aladdin
Format: Print book

Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless...
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The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy

Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant...
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The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids."...
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Eragon

Christopher Paolini

In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
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Fablehaven

Brandon Mull - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually,...
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The Apothecary

Maile Meloy - Puffin Books
Format: eBook

It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin's father is kidnapped,...
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The Magic Misfits

Neil Patrick Harris - Little
Format: Print book

"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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The Familiars

Adam Jay Epstein - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

THE FAMILIARS are the magical animal companions to a wizard or witch. When three young wizards-in-training get kidnapped by the evil queen of the land, it is up to their familiars to go a dangerous journey to rescue them. You'll meet Aldwyn, an orphan alley cat pretending to have telekinesis;...
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Fireball

John Christopher - Aladdin; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Two cousins are thrust into a parallel reality when they travel through time and fire in the first book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Simon and his cousin Brad hadn't wanted to spend the summer together. And the quiet...
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The Wingsnatchers: Carmer and Grit, Book One

Sarah Jean Horwitz - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut about a magician's apprentice and a one-winged princess who must vanquish the mechanical monsters that stalk the streets and threaten the faerie kingdom. Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III would rather be tinkering with his latest experiments...
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