Diana Wynne Jones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and is life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2001, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
8) Witch Week
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are nervous-especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all. Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, and...
9) Charmed Life
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
A bewitching comic fantasy by a master of the supernatural
Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Aileen's family of magic makers includes Aunt Beck, the most powerful magician on Skarr, but her own magic does not show itself until a mission for the King and a magical cat help her find strength and confidence.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.
12) Fire and Hemlock
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.
15) Hexwood
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Ann discovers that the wood near her village is under the control of a Bannas, a machine that manipulates reality, placed there many years ago by powerful extraterrestrial beings called Reigners.
16) Dogsbody
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sirius the dog star, is reborn on earth as a puppy with a mission to search the lost Zoi, the murder weapon of the stars.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2005
Description
When a witch's curse turns young Sophie into an old woman, she leaves home and finds work as a cleaning woman in the moving castle of the mysterious wizard Howl. She makes a deal with Calcifer, a fire demon, to free him from his magical contract with Howl in return for which he will remove Sophie's curse.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise...
Publisher
GKids, Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers a world of spells and potions, and a mysterious song that may be the key to finding the family she has always wanted.