Bowles, David (David O.)
Summary: "A brilliant steampunk reimagining of Frankenstein set in colonial Mexico. In the Republic of Santander, non-Christian magic is frowned upon, if not outright prohibited. But when Cristina Franco, an apprentice shaman, is killed by witch owls, her brother Enrique cannot let her go. With forbidden alchemy and engineering, Enrique brings her back to life: part human, part machine. Though her very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CLOMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Strange things are happening at Dunwiddle Magic School--and the Upside-Down Magic class is getting blamed! When things get messy, it's easy to point your finger at the kids with the messiest magic. But the Upside-Down Magic students aren't going to let themselves get in trouble. Instead, they're going to find out what's really going on--and get their school back on track before something really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MLYHarris, Joanne
Summary: I am as brown as brown can be/And my eyes as black as sloe/I am as brisk as brisk can be/And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl.Only love could draw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gollancz 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAROstertag, Molly
Summary: "Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament--as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC OSTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC OSTAndrews, Ilona
Summary: "Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she's faced could have prepared her for this. Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar. Kate's father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACE 2016
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Summary: Before Stone trained Kara Magari or taught the First Vagabond to master the Blood loyalty, he was nothing more than a slave boy named Terric. Terric is a curious loner hellbent on reading his master’s forbidden books. When one heist goes wrong, Terric abandons his old life and runs for freedom—only to fall prey to a ruthless man named Niccoli. Niccoli is an isen—a creature of magic from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.M. Boyce 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Nory, Bax, and their friends are in a special class at Dunwiddle Magic School, a class for children whose magic is unpredictable--and while Nory is finding an outlet for her dritten-self (a combination of a kitten and dragon), in the kittenball team, Baxis worried because all he can do is turn into a rock, and nobody knows why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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Summary: When Samira receives a strange vase with some ancient coins, she and her sister Rima are pulled into Baalbek, a Phoenician underworld where they are caught up in the a struggle between deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--and Eshmun, who wants his obol, his burial coin, back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BISLarson, Sara B.
Summary: Princess Evelayn, eighteen, of Éadrolan must rely on her newly acquired magical powers as war between the Light Kingdom and the Dark Kingdom rages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fanatsy Larson 2017Mlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons--unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not longbefore the trouble starts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MLYSoontornvat, Christina
Summary: While on a field trip to Bokati Island with the mysterious Guardian Master Em, Plum must decide whether or not to reveal her own Guardian powers when an unseen force puts the entire ecosystem at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SOOBoyce, S. M.
Summary: "Kara Magari isn't normal, even by Ourea's standards -- and in a world of shape-shifters and soul stealers, that's saying something. To the royalty, she's a loose cannon. To the masses, she's a failure. But Kara's arrival in Ourea started a war, and she's going to end it. An ancient isen named Stone takes an interest in Kara's training, and it turns out he has more answers than he originally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Caffeinated Books Publishing] 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBecker, Elayne Audrey
Summary: With a magical illness running rampant and the continent arming for battle, the three realms' long-feared destruction seems inevitable, but the two shifters they believed would bring about Alemara's ruin may in fact hold the key to its survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen/Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BECBoyce, S. M.
Summary: The final chapter in the war for Ourea ends with blood. Kara Magari is an icon, a hero, and the people love her. The royalty tolerates her. She has everything-an army, allies, and a close circle of chosen family. They believe she will end the war, and they shouldn't. She's as scared as they are. She just can't show it. The war she accidentally started ends with a final battle that will either...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Caffeinated Books Publishing] 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHolmes, Kathryn
Summary: Madison tries her best to spread joy and be helpful, even when people like her Great-Aunt Joelle seem to think that she can't do or say anything right. Still, she goes into Mrs. Norrell's class with her head held high, ready to brainstorm ideas for her group project on activism. But after her Great-Aunt Joelle shoots down her ideas, she starts to wonder if maybe she isn't really cut out to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC HOLSkye, Jasmine
Summary: Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye's high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest. Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SKYBoyce, S.M.
Summary: Ourean legends of the First Vagabond have survived a thousand years, blossoming in pubs and alleys even as the great Bloods of Ourea tried to squelch his name. But the myths glorify the deeds and forget the man he was—Cedric, a boy from a small Hillsidian farming village. As a young man, Cedric discovers a terrifying defect in his nature. He has no blood loyalty, which means he can defy his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.M. Boyce 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: "Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he's faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side ..."--Publisher's description
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHolmes, Kathryn
Summary: It's Tally Tuttle's first day of second grade, and she's super nervous. She's new in town and worries that she won't fit in, so when everyone starts teasing her about her full name, Tallulah, she wishes she could retreat into a shell. Then, all of a sudden, she does. Tally is shocked to discover that she's turned into a turtle. She'd heard that Mrs. Norrell's class was special, but she hadn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC HOLLittle Badger, Darcie
Summary: "Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LITOstertag, Molly
Summary: When Aster's non-magical friend Charlie finds herself the target of a curse, Aster and his unconventional talent for witchery must find the source of the curse before more people get hurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OSTYu, Mimi
Summary: As the late-Emperor's first-born, Princess Lu knows that the throne rightfully belongs to her. She also can't forget her promise to shapeshifter Nok, the boy she loves, to win justice for his now powerless people. Yet even with an army at her side, Lu must face a major obstacle: the current Empress, her once-beloved younger sister. Empress Min used to live in Lu's shadow. Now she wields an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gollancz 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YUPrineas, Sarah.
Summary: "Fer, the Lady of the Summerlands trusted the Lords and Ladies of her world to fulfill their oaths by removing their glamories, but their pledges have gone forsworn, and now the consequences of their broken promises are ravaging the land and it's up to Fer to restore peace before it's too late"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRIConnolly, Tina
Summary: Dorie Rochart has been hiding her fey side for a long time. Now, finished with University, she plans to study magical creatures and plants in the wild, bringing long-forgotten cures to those in need. But when no one will hire a girl to fight basilisks, she releases her shape-changing fey powers to disguise herself as a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2014