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61) 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
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
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.
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...
65) 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
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
583 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
70) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent's face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna--the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn't see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi,...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
NC 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Jack, often called Prince Handsome, grows up under a curse, and when he is pricked by a sword he and the whole castle fall sound asleep-- and as the years pass a city of skyscrapers grow up around the castle making it hard to find, but luckily Princess Anya has an antique map she found on the Internet and her very own tunnel-boring machine.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarpersCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hanged in an annual sacrificial ritual to Poseidon, seventeen-year-old oracle Leto awakens on an island inhibited by Melantho, a strange immoral girl with oceanic powers, who tells Leto the only way to break Poseidon's curse is to return to Ithaca and kill the prince.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Milla, sixteen, who has lived a sheltered life on a farm near a cursed village, finally makes a friend, she learns of her connection to the curse's originator.
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 860L
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. No one can know that she's lost her magic. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul. To save herself and Visidia, Amora...
Author
Series
Emblem Island volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
77) The darkening
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
78) The bone spindle
Author
Series
Bone spindle volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn't believe in true love. Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who's been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi--until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle...
79) Beastly beauty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere, he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self--a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she is impossible to love.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lady Briar is scorned for her appearance. Princess Rose is adored for her looks. Unbeknownst to them, one or both may bear a curse that only true love can break. But the girls have little time for curses anywayalong with their friend Jack, they are busy plotting the downfall of the evil giant who plagues their kingdom. But how can children succeed when the adults are afraid to even try? And what if the curse manifests? Whose love could be true enough...