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3) Lightlark
Author
Series
Lightlark volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatensto undo everything.
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Formats
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate to save the ones you love? Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she'll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. To locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she's never known, learn about their secret powers, and take...
6) Lucky charm
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Derek Corwin is well aware of the family curse - every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune. He decides to outsmart the prophesy that has plagued his family for generations by breaking up with his first love-and marrying someone else. Now, divorced and broke, all he has left is his teenage daughter, a boatload of regret … and wariness when it comes to love.
Until Gabrielle Donovan returns, determined...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
In 1792, after leaving her violently mad mother behind in revolutionary France, seventeen-year-old Thea Hope travels to England, where she risks losing her own sanity when she creates the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
1792. Thea Hope and her mother are close to creating the legendary Philosopher's Stone, whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold. Just when the promise of the Stone's riches is in their grasp, Thea's mother...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"When a girl who's never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within"--
10) Gilded
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to...
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden's bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family's past. When Sugar Lacey returns to Short Junction to find the aunts who raised her, she hopes they will be able to tell her the truth about her parents. What she discovers is not just a terrible story of unrequited love, but...
14) House of ashes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
A young painter's ancestral mansion is threatened by her scheming ex-husband, mounting debt, and a generations-old curse tied to family secrets that some will kill to protect.
15) Luckenbooth
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"There are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close. 1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently-deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside...
Author
Series
St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences.
Soraya has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family. She is a princess-- and her touch is poisonous. As the day of her twin brother's wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she is willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in...
19) A pinch of magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020, 2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and proper Fliss--go on a quest to break the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
20) Tiger's voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
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