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The science of Harry Potter : how magic really works

Highfield, Roger.


Explores the ways in which the scientific world is like the magical world depicted in the Harry Potter books, and examines the origins of magical thinking as expressed in myth, legend, and witchcraft.
Date Published:2002

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone: Book 1. : Harry Potter Series.

Rowling, J.K.



Date Published:1997

Wings: Book 1 : Wings Series

Pike, Aprilynne.


School Library Journal, July 2009. Publisher's Weekly, May 2009. Booklist, February 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2009. Kirkus Review, April 2009. When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover that she is a faerie and she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from enemy trolls.
Date Published:2009

American gypsy /Oksana Marafioti.

Marafioti, Oksana, 1974-.


Publisher's Weekly, May 2012. Booklist, June 2012. Kirkus Review, June 2012. Follows the journey of fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti as she tries to find her place in the United States after living as a Gypsy in Russia, and has to overcome certain barriers in order to feel like she belongs in her new home.
Date Published:2012

Born at midnight /a shadow falls novel /bk 1.

Hunter, C. C.


School Library Journal, April 2011. Publisher's Weekly, February 2011. Kirkus Review, March 2011. Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother's death and her parents' separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other "freaky freaks," of which she may be one.
Date Published:2011

The Rule of Thoughts: Book 2 : Mortality doctrine series

Dashner, James, 1972-.


Sequel to: The eye of minds. Kirkus Review, August 2014. "Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2014

Prodigy: Book 2 : the Legend series

Lu, Marie, 1984-.


School Library Journal, February 2013. Pub Weekly, November 2012. Booklist, December 2012. Horn Book, March 2013. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2013. Kirkus Review, November 2012. June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
Date Published:2013

Carry on : the rise and fall of Simon Snow

Rowell, Rainbow.


Map on endpapers. "Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here -- it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2015

Map on endpapers. "Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here -- it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2015

Glass sword: Book 2 red Queen Series

Aveyard, Victoria.


School Library Journal, December 2015. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2016. As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkrness that has grown in her soul.
Date Published:2016

PET


There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question--How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
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There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question--How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?

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Burned Book 1

Hopkins, Ellen.


School Library Journal, July 2006. Booklist, June 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Date Published:2006

School Library Journal, July 2006. Booklist, June 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

Date Published:2006