Mensah, Bernard
Summary: Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Nkonyaa School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his calabash--but when one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic his power is revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR BLUE MENAgyemang, Elizabeth
Summary: After telling too many far-fetched tales, Nana Busumuru is sent to spend the summer with relatives in Ghana, where she must join forces with the trickster spider Ananse to prevent an evil corporation from stealing the magic in the village forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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Summary: Arriving in NYC for a culinary apprenticeship under Chef Leroy at Harlem's most celebrated restaurant, Tiana struggles to juggle the dueling demands of her mentor while experiencing Harlem's exciting cultural scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: A perfect time for pandas: Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSBFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of Moana, "a spirited teenager who loves the ocean, yet ... is forbidden to travel beyond the reef that surrounds her island home of Motunui"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of Moana, "a spirited teenager who loves the ocean, yet ... is forbidden to travel beyond the reef that surrounds her island home of Motunui"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: the story of the movie in comics 2020
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Summary: Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KANHatke, Ben
Summary: "Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone--carried into another realm by an ogre. When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything . . . except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power of their magic plants may not be enough to get them back to earth alive. Alone and injured, Jack and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HATOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBMieville, China.
Summary: Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIELee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEEArnett, Mindee
Summary: Cast out of the nobility after her father's attempt to assassinate the high king, Kate's job as a royal courier brings her to the scene of a drake massacre where she finds Corvin, the king's son and her first love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARNKuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Summary: "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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Summary: After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZHAFeist, Raymond E.
Summary: The conclusion of the Serpentwar Saga, set in the fantasy land of Midkemia. In this fourth volume the brothers Jimmy and Dash Jameson, grandsons of a magician, take on the evil King of the Bitter Sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Eos 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEIDemi.
Summary: A poor young boy in China yearns for wealth and power, until a magician gives him a magic pillow that brings dreams of what would happen if his wishes came true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMThong, Roseanne
Summary: Grandpa Tu is famous for his special noodles, and as the emperor's birthday approaches, he encourages his granddaughter, Mei, to find her own noodle magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOVee, Julia
Summary: "Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VEEKrazeKode
Summary: Having found the truth, Lu Jie is set out on a path against the very heavens. Now exiled from the sect and under the Lord of the Seventh Peak, he must branch out into his own, creating the foundations of a new era starting from Taizhou. To win this time, he will need to understand the power that lurks within the depth of his spirits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024