Laird, Jenny

Summary: Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who find a magic treehouse which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC MAG

Farrow, Dylan

Summary: "A stunning and timely debut from activist Dylan Farrow, Hush is a powerful feminist fantasy full of surprising insights, that casts a ray of light into the shadows of a society based on silencing and lies. How do you speak up in a world where propaganda is a twisted form of magic? In the land of Montane, language is literal magic to the select few who possess the gift of Telling. This power is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Farrow 2020

Leopard, Bones

Summary: Aoe, Thel, and Gen, better known as The Lovely Trio, first burst onto the scene five years ago when they saved Earth from a surprise space monster attack. As a result, everyone idolizes them as super-heroic pop icon magical girls, including Gigi, whose brother died as a bystander in one of their battles. But when Gigi witnesses the Lovely Trio battling a monster firsthand, she sees something...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LEO

St. Crowe, Nikki

Summary: "The stories were all wrong - Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they're gone for only a day, some a week or a month. but they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST.

Manning, Matthew K.

Summary: Just when fifth-grader Xander Stone decides to give up his long search for magical creatures, he encounters three Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, who were banished from the magical world of Pegasia after an encounter with a mysterious object leaking green gas turned them into smelly, zombie-like, rainbow-upchucking creatures--and Xander will need to keep his wits about him if he is to hide the true...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MAN

Barker, Emily Croy

Summary: Nora knows she needs to move on. And forget about magic. Most of all, she really should forget the magician Aruendiel, who shared the secrets of magic with her but fiercely guarded his heart. But a chance encounter brings him back to her life and gives Nora the opportunity to slip between worlds again, beginning the next phase of her magical education.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAR

Barker, Emily Croy.

Summary: Only magic will set Nora Fischer free in an alternate fairy tale world that offers anything but 'happily ever after.' Illiterate women roam this world gone wrong, and men's spells hold the world in submission. When a mysterious magician teaches Nora the magic she needs to survive, a sudden doorway back to her world suddenly looks like one she may not want to go through.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BAR

Manning, Matthew K.

Summary: Xander Stone has been hiding his three friends the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns in plain sight as part of a magic show, but now a regular unicorn has found her way through a portal; problem is the virus that turned them into zombie-like creatures has apparently given his three friends a craving for unicorn flesh--so when they all use to the portal to return to Pegasia Xander follows to try and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MAN

Osborne, Mary Pope

Summary: "The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSB

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 37

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SA TOL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Tol

Dow, Alechia

Summary: "Zaira Citlali is supposed to die. After all, she's the god Indigo reborn. Indigo, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction. Although Zaira has never been able to harness Indigo's powers, the Ilori Emperor wants to sacrifice her in Ozvios's honor. Unless she escapes and finds Wesley, the boy prophesized to help her defeat Ozvios...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOW

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOW

Davies, Stephen

Summary: "Meet Hilda -- explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper, and friend to every creature in the valley! Well ... almost every creature ... Newly initiated into the Sparrow Scouts, Hilda and her friends are ready to explore and document the wilderness. Yet as luck would have it, there is a dark, menacing creature afoot near Trolberg, and Hilda is whisked back home to safety. Even so, intrigue...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAV

Osborne, Mary Pope

Summary: The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out "The Gray Ghost" and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSB

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 36