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21) 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.
23) 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
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarpersCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hanged in an annual sacrificial ritual to Poseidon, seventeen-year-old oracle Leto awakens on an island inhibited by Melantho, a strange immoral girl with oceanic powers, who tells Leto the only way to break Poseidon's curse is to return to Ithaca and kill the prince.
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dami, a nonbinary former demonio, must cancel every deal they have ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and remain human, but first they must help a boy named Silas find Captain Kidd's treasure and break a family curse.
28) The bone spindle
Author
Series
Bone spindle novels volume 1
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
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
30) 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
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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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.
40) Nightbird
Author
Language
English
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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