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22) Reading Beauty
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Once upon a planetoid, surrounded by book lovers, a princess, Lex, read morning, noon and night (beneath her covers). But when a curse -- a death-like sleep via paper cut -- threaten to turn her kingdom into a place barren of books, the space princess sets out to break the fairy's curse and bring books back to her planet.
Author
Series
Incredibly dead pets of Rex Dexter volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.
24) Ghost and bone
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Oscar Grimstone is cursed with killing things at a touch, and can also transform into a ghost, but a journey to the city of ghosts may lead him to discover his true identity.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after their mothers mysteriously went missing, Delilah, Bo, and twin sisters Jude and Whitney begin to unearth secrets that cause the girls to question everything they thought they knew about their small Kansas town.
27) The bone spindle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn't believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who's been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi--until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle...
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"--
29) The witchery
Author
Series
Witchery volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Logan came to Mesmortes Coven Academy in Haelsford, Florida, to learn to control her powers, but she soon learns she has a role to play in the ancient curse of the hellmouth--whatever the cost to herself and her new friends.
Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Theodosia has the ability to detect black magic and ancient curses that are attached to objects in the Museum of Legends and Antiquities, which her father is the curator of, and discovers that a new artifact from Egypt is cursed and she must return it to the tomb it was excavated from before it destroys the British Empire.
Author
Series
Nevermoor volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--
Author
Series
Cursebreaker series volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Grandpa finds a mysterious compass washed up on the seashore, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo review museum artifacts and brave a raging storm to discover whom it belonged to and what it means for their town, Murky Creek.
Author
Series
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old, silent music box has strangely begun to play its tune, and when Anya Ivanovich asks for the Phantom Finders' help, Abby and Theo follow the trail of clues to Murky Creek's once-ornate theater, the Kirby Center.
38) Lightlark
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears. Its purpose: to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The Centennial offers...
Author
Series
Buried and the bound volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown.
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