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Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance-hall girl to help pay off her mother's mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin plunges into a dark adventure: a mirror world of secrets and superstitions. Eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy Ren also has a secret, a promise he must fulfill to his dead master; to find his master's severed finger...
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Sharing a hardy and resourceful life on a mid-20th-century island off the coast of Ireland, sisters Rose and Emer meet American newcomer Brigid, who has recently inherited a family estate on the island and would find a secret holy well rumored to grant miracles. By the award-winning author of The Mermaids Singing.
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"Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old widow who lives in the mountain. Many call her a witch; others whisper she's insane. Everyone agrees the vengeance Alvaretta swore at her husband's death hovers over them all. That vengeance awakens when teenagers stumble upon Alvaretta's cabin, incurring her curse. Now a sickness moves through the Hollow. Rumors swirl that Stu Graves has risen for revenge. And the people of Crow Hollow are...
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Amanda Brown mysteries volume 3
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"A decades-old murder, a strange superstition, an enormous snake, and one giant secret are about to rock the beautiful Belle Vue to its core. It is a time of great upheaval for the Belgian Congo and Belle Vue is not safe from the changes. But there are more pressing problems as an unsolved disappearance brings up issues for some of the denizens of the village. Add to that a sudden influx of strangers and a horrible storm that literally divides the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
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1030L
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While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
10) Waking evil
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2009.
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"Buffalo Springs, Tennessee, is a neighborly kind of place where folks leave their doors unlocked and crime is unheard-of. But once every generation, a strange red mist settles over the town, and with it come omens of death... When the body of a young woman is found, forensic investigator Ramsey Clark is called in. She knows about the legend of the mist and about the curse that has the entire town afraid of the dark. But Ramsey believes in evidence,...
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2020.
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"Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited...
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Of Monsters and Men volume 02
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"England, 1890. Vampires are alive and well in North Yorkshire, leastwise in the minds of the uneducated. Librarian Rosa Edwards intends to drive a stake through the heart of such superstitions. But gossip flies when the mysterious Sir James Morgan returns from Transylvania to take up residence in his shadowy manor. The townsfolk say he's cursed. James hates everything about England. The weather. The rumors. The scorn. Yet he must stay. His mother...
13) Unholy awakening
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Hanno Stiffeniis mysteries volume 4
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English
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"A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of a well. The death wounds are startling: two small, round punctures to the jugular vein. Vampire fever is spreading throughout the countryside, and suspicions soon fall on the recently arrived Emma Rimmele. Investigator Hanno Stiffeniis must do everything he can to find the true culprit before the mob’s hysteria reaches its breaking point and turns violent. Set in a nineteenth-century world where...
14) Melmoth
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It's been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts -- or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades...
15) Fortune Falls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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850L
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In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
17) The India fan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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"Druscilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, is enthralled with the wealthy Framling family next door, especially the handsome Fabian. But she knows better than to trust his intentions. As a long-time companion to Fabian's sister, Lavinia, Druscilla agrees to accompany the Framlings to a British outpost in India as a governess—and to avoid a marriage of convenience back home. Shortly after arriving, Druscilla finds herself trapped in New Delhi in the...
18) Lucky enough
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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570L
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Thirteen-year-old Trey, sure his lucky charm got him onto the Ravens thirteen-year-old travel baseball team, becomes increasingly superstitious and, when he loses the charm, he loses confidence, as well.
19) Fatal roots
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County Cork mysteries volume 8
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2020.
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English
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Some secrets are too big to stay buried...A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned--and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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In one week Sabrina will be eleven years old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die. Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working on a story about the Philippines' war on drugs, and she...
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