Benton-Walker, Terry J.
Summary: Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniversary of these brutal events, Clement and Cristina Trudeau--the sixteen-year-old twin heirs to the powerful, magical, dethroned family--are mourning their father and caring for their sick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENAster, Alex
Summary: Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ASTFaizal, Hafsah
Summary: Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither wants to be. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAIMcLemore, Anna-Marie
Summary: Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who's doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy. Cade doesn't know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn't know that every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCLLloyd-Jones, Emily
Summary: "Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid 'Mer' is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince's orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC LLOGriffin, Rachel
Summary: "When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequences, she must team up with witch-hating Pike Alder to make sure her magic is not unleashed on the world"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRIParamore, Austin
Summary: "What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PARCalonita, Jen
Summary: "What if Anna and Elsa never knew each other? As the future Queen of Arendelle, Princess Elsa's life is full of expectation and responsibility--not to mention, questions. What type of ruler will she be? When will she have to pick a suitor? And why has she always harbored the feeling that some critical piece of herself is missing? Following the unexpected death of her parents, Elsa is forced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2019
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1 available in YA Series, Call number: YA FIC CALMiller, Darcy
Summary: When a glowing lost and found box appears and stranger-than-normal things begin to happen at Strangeville School, it is up to Harvey and his friends to solve the mystery of a fifty-year-old curse before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: Three unlikely heroes--Patch Brightwater, a boy in disgrace, Wren, a girl cursed to live as a rat, and Barver, a fire-breathing dracogriff--discover a deadly truth: the evil Piper of Hamelyn is on the loose! Can they stop him before he sparks the biggest battle of them all?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATHarper, Benjamin
Summary: When the young witch, Princess Swampelina, loses her wand in the bog, a beautiful (ugh!) butterfly offers to retrieve it if she will be his friend, but after avoiding him the princess soon finds the butterfly helpful and even rather fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: A cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world, but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks: and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC TOWPohl, Laura
Summary: Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. After the mysterious death of their best friend Ariane, the police ruled it a suicide. When Nani Eszes arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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Summary: "Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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Summary: In Raddith, you must beware of cursers. Only those consumed by hatred are able to curse: set someone on fire, steal their shadow, or even turn them into another form. Only one person has the power to unravel curses: Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but helps those transformed maliciously. He helped Nettle recover from entrapment in bird form, and she is now his constant companion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HARWood, Maryrose
Summary: Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOPatrick, Seth
Summary: 13-year old piper Patch Brightwater is a boy in disgrace. Thrown in jail for playing a forbidden spell, he is no one's idea of a hero. But then he discovers a deadly truth--the evil Piper of Hamelyn is on the loose. With the help of Wren, a girl cursed to live as a rat, and Barver, a fire-breathing dracogriff, Patch must stop the Piper from sparking the biggest battle of them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PATVernon, Ursula
Summary: Never a conventional princess, Harriet becomes an adventurer after learning she is cursed to fall into a deep sleep on her twelfth birthday, but after two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more with her riding quail, Mumfrey, things go awry at home and she must seek a prince to set things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VERCraig, Erin A.
Summary: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last -- the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge -- and there are whispers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CRAFoody, Amanda
Summary: "As the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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Summary: Shamrock is excited to study garden science, but when his Golden Rose seed does not grow, he becomes convinced that he has the Gardener's Curse and only a secret visit to Doctor Mush in the Gnome Village will help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: "WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL. Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them, and save themselves and their realms, one ruler will die. To survive, Isla Crown must LIE. CHEAT....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC ASTCaramagna, Joe
Summary: Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022