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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
This rollicking, rhyming tale from master storyteller Julia Donaldson is the perfect Halloween read-aloud for the youngest listeners. A friendly witch, hungry dragon, and muddy monster learn about friendship, and readers will delight in the surprising (and not too scary) ending.
2) The witches
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Strega Nona tries to teach Big Anthony about gardening and the importance of order, but when Anthony does not follow her directions and uses her growing spell, his small vegetable patch turns into an uncontrollable jungle.
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
Author
Series
Worst witch volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition in this format.
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. She's always getting her spells wrong. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in rhyming text, a gang of neighborhood children make a determined effort to seize some of the pomegranate fruits from the magnificent tree by the scary, run-down farmhouse--but the tree is guarded by a scary "witch", except on Halloween, when her "sister" welcomes trick-or-treaters.
Author
Series
Disney villains volume 3
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First hardcover edition, July 2016.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
How did the sea witch, Ursula, become so twisted and filled with anger and hatred Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal with Ursula. Will the cost of losing her enchanting voice and nearly her soul prove too high for Ariel, or will the power of good prevail Losing then finding ones voice is at the heart of the classic story of The Little Mermaid.
10) Heartless hunter
Author
Series
Crimson moth volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In a world where witches face persecution, Rune leads a double life, masquerading as a socialite during the day and transforming into the vigilante known as the Crimson Moth by night, and forms a complicated alliance with the witch hunter Gideon Sharpe, blurring the lines between love and danger.
11) The demon tide
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Outed as the Black Witch and with her fastmate missing -- either killed or captured by the High Mage Vogel -- Elloren runs for her life, hoping to find allies, but they will have to not kill her on sight. Tierney and Trystan have joined the Wyvenguard to help defend against Vogel, who has one more extraordinary revelation before he declares all-out war.
Author
Series
Eva Evergreen volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Eva must travel to a seaside town to complete her training and earn the rank of Novice Witch before her thirteenth birthday, or be banned from using magic forever.
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13) The shadow wand
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Elloren Gardner is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and destined to triumph, or be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Separated from everyone she loves, isolated and hunted, Elloren must turn to Commander Lukas Grey. With the Mage forces of Gardneria poised to conquer all of Erthia, Elloren has no choice but to ally with Lukas and combine their power to keep herself out of the hands of Gardnerian leader Marcus Vogel, the holder of the all-consuming...
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Language
English
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Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
17) The Wee Free Men
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 2
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Carnegie medalist
Tiffany Aching volume 1
Tiffany aching volume Book 1
Language
English
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Description
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
18) First broom
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
19) The Clackity
Author
Series
Blight Harbor volume 1
Language
English
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Description
To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
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