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Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Summary: "When the Alden siblings visit their grandfather's friend in an apartment building, they begin to wonder about the many mysterious events that keep happening on the thirteenth floor of that building."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Ellis, Kat

Summary: "When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2021

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

Parish, Herman.

Summary: A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE PAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PAR

Novales, Keka

Summary: When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

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

Rumford, James

Summary: A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RUM

Vrettos, Adrienne Maria

Summary: Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VRE

Villanueva, Gail D.

Summary: In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die; Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019

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

Choo, Yangsze

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, a novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia that pulls the reader into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love, and a child and a young woman searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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Aitken, Molly

Summary: "A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIT

Weston, Carrie.

Summary: Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC WESTO

Kent, Hannah

Summary: Nóra, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Micheál, who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nóra just as rumors begin to spread that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Nóra and Mary enlist the help of Nance, an elderly wanderer who understands the magic of the old ways.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Perry, Sarah

Summary: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2018

Perry, Sarah

Summary: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

Chan, Crystal.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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

Bunting, Eve

Summary: When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bunting 2009

Choo, Yangsze

Summary: "Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish:...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Choo 2019

Crane, Caprice.

Summary: Facing her romantic prospects with skepticism after two disappointing relationships, successful DJ Berry Lambert, who believes bad things occur in threes, expects a rapid dissolution to her next love affair and is surprised by her attraction to an outspoken, commitment-minded rival.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRA

Sundstøl, Vidar

Summary: "On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUN

Choo, Yangsze

Summary: Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish: that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Choo 2019

Sullivan, Laura L.

Summary: While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SUL

Weston, Carrie.

Summary: Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2002

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Weston 2002

Brown, Marc

Summary: The Brain does not believe in superstition, but when he tries to prove that superstitions are nonsense he starts finding bad luck everywhere he turns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003

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Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

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