Holly Black
Author
Series
Folk of the Air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and in doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions,...
Author
Series
Folk of the Air volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
After learning that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her, even as his fascination with her remains undiminished. Someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves. Now she must uncover the traitor...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. With High King Cardan and High Queen Jude willing to use any means necessary to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak will have to decide whether to attempt regaining the trust of the girl he's always loved or to remain loyal to Elfhame and hand over the means to end her reign--even if it means...
Author
Series
Stolen heir volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. In the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Cathedral. She has produced a monster of stick and snow who will do her bidding--and exact her revenge. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, fled to the human world and lives in the woods. When she is chased through the streets by the hag Bogdana, Suren is saved by Prince Oak, the heir to Elfhame--and the boy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the exiled Queen of Faerie, Jude must travel back to Elfhame to help her twin sister, Taryn, and uncover how to break a dark curse threatening the whole Faerie world"--
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal....
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 1
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst -- and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past...
8) Doll bones
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Callum Hunt's summer break isn't like other kids'. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course, most kids aren't heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall. It's not easy for Call...and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc. Call escapes to the Magisterium--but things...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king." -- Provided by publisher.
12) The bronze key
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Students at the Magisterium are supposed to be safe. Under the watchful eyes of the mages, they are taught to use magic to bring order to a chaotic world. But now the chaos is fighting back. Call, Tamara, and Aaron should be worrying about things like pop quizzes and magic contests. Instead, after the shocking death of one of their classmates, they must track down a sinister killer...and risk their own lives in the process. As Call, Tamara, and Aaron...
Author
Series
Good neighbors volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While sixteen-year-old Rue Silver travels into the faerie realm to find her mother, faerie creatures are entering the human world and wreaking havoc, forcing Rue to ponder where her loyalty should lie.
15) The golden tower
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Callum begins his final year at the Magisterium, he is estranged from most of his friends and a furtive darkness haunts him.
16) The silver mask
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017, 2018.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed...but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, Cardan was a faerie child with a heart of stone...and a wicked tongue. Born into a family overburdened with heirs, nourished on cat milk and contempt, perhaps it's no surprise he turned out the way he did. This is the story of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan-- and his visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West-- told wholly from Cardan's perspective. -- Adapted from dust...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 5
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, have entered another world -- without leaving this one.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.