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82) The clover curse
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sophie finds a four-leaf clover that isn't exactly lucky in the seventh book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse! Sophie Mouse is painting in Clio's Clover patch on a beautiful spring day when she spots something unusual. It's a clover ... but it has four leaves! Four-leaf clovers are supposed to bring good luck, right? Sophie waits and waits for this good luck, but it seems like just the opposite is happening. She spills paint all over herself, she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud by targeting Jaya Rao's little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she will be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and she knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. His Lordship Grey Emerson is doomed once he turns eighteen--thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch. When Jaya Rao...
Author
Series
Hamster princess volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Hamsterbone sets out to reverse the curse on twelve mice princesses who are forced to dance all night, every night"--
85) The cursed sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Wil must return home to discover the origins of her curse, she is forced to untangle the secrets within her own family and fight against the evil Pahn and her own dangerous brother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
484 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined. She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned...
88) Tumble & Blue
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In order for Tumble Wilson and Blue Montgomery to fix their ancestors' mistakes and banish the bad luck that has followed them around for all of their lives, they must face Munch, the mysterious golden alligator who cast the curse centuries ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the fiercely independent and mysterious Paulina 'Poppy' Fontana invites her great-nieces and fellow second-born daughters, Emilia and Lucy, to visit her birthplace of Italy, she makes a wild declaration. On her eightieth birthday, Poppy claims she'll meet the love of her life on the steps of the Ravello Cathedral and put an end to the Fontana Family Second-Daughter Curse once and for all. The Fontana Second-Daughter Curse is probably nothing...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed...
Author
Series
Library volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's a place beyond this world where spirits tell their tales--stories that ended too soon, or don't end at all. It's a place for unexplainable things: mysteries without solutions. Ghosts. Boogeymen. They all have a story. Enter the Library. Marcus and his friends have found the key to unlock it. And they need to use it because, clearly, something is up. Some strange guy in a bathrobe haunts them; fires rage and flare out in an instant.... At...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's chilling exploration of what happens when the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient subterranean city, stirring international conflict and exposing the archaeological team to curses, whispers, and the terror of a legendary plague. In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora's Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings...
93) Thornwood
Author
Series
Sisters ever after volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For years, Briony has lived in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Rosalin, and the curse that has haunted her from birth--that on the day of her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spindle and cause everyone in the castle to fall into a 100-year sleep. When the day the curse is set to fall over the kingdom finally arrives, nothing--not even Briony--can stop its evil magic. You know the story. But here's something you don't know....
Author
Series
Max Helsing Monster Hunter volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Max van Helsing and a group of friends try to save the world after he discovers he has been cursed by an evil warlock who intends to reclaim the earth for monsters"--
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
96) This wicked fate
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
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 her place in their ancient lineage. But Briseis is not the only one who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal ladies are in dispute...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 answer those questions sooner than she'd hoped, becoming the sole ruler of her kingdom and growing...
Author
Series
Sisters of shadow and light volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"The night my sister was born, the stars died and were reborn in her eyes.... Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world--including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father's Paladin power; her eyes glow blue...
100) The bone houses
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--
Since the death of their parents, Aderyn ("Ryn") and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, near a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem...