Holly Black
1) Doll bones
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2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Best of Mystery for JR High
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
Staff Picks - October 2023
Best of Mystery for JR High
OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
Staff Picks - October 2023
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Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better; and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past"-- Provided by publisher.
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A girl wagers her soul in a sour-gummy-frog-eating contest with the devil. Love and a homemade coat rescue a boy from his fairyland jailers. A newly bitten teenage vampire uses the Internet to show the world just how uncool the "cold" life is. In this collection of stories, the supernatural intersects with everyday life in surprising and dangerous ways.
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Modern faerie tales volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
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Acclaimed authors Holly Black (Ironside)and Cecil Castellucci (Boy Proof) have united in geekdom to edit short stories from some of the best selling and most promising geeks in young adult literature: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, John Green, Tracy Lynn, Cynthia and Greg Leitich Smith, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Barry Lyga, Wendy Mass, Garth Nix, Scott Westerfield, Lisa Yee, and Sara Zarr.
With illustrated interstitials...
With illustrated interstitials...
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Bordertown: a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, to find themselves. Elves play in rock bands and race down the street on spell-powered motorbikes. Human kids recreate themselves in the squats and clubs and artists' studios of Soho. Terri Windling's original Bordertown series was the forerunner of today's urban fantasy, introducing authors that included...
8) Red glove
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Curse workers volume 2
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"Cassel is trying to reestablish some kind of normalcy. That was never going to be easy for someone from a worker family tied to one of the big crime families and a mother whose cons get more reckless by the day. But Cassel is also coming to terms with what it means to be a transformation worker and figuring out how to have a life. But normal doesn't last very long. Soon Cassel is being courted by both sides of the law and is forced to confront his...
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Good neighbors volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.
11) Kith
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Good neighbors volume 2
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While sixteen-year-old Rue Silver travels into the faerie realm to find her mother, faerie creatures are entering the human world and wreaking havoc, forcing Rue to ponder where her loyalty should lie.
12) Kind
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Good neighbors volume 3
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Rue, a faerie heir, faces a difficult dilemma when the faerie world launches an attack on the city she has always known.
13) White cat
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Curse workers volume 1
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When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
15) Black heart
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Curse workers volume 3
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Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.
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Young fans of Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians will fall in love with this thrilling fantasy series that will transport you to another magical world.
The Field Guide:
The Grace Kids—twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory—aren't all that impressed with the ramshackle old mansion their mother moves them to when their decidedly kooky Great Aunt Lucinda is sent to an asylum....
The Field Guide:
The Grace Kids—twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory—aren't all that impressed with the ramshackle old mansion their mother moves them to when their decidedly kooky Great Aunt Lucinda is sent to an asylum....
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Book 3—Lucinda's Secret
Things at the Spiderwick estate are getting completely out of hand. If being attacked by a band of marauding goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, how Jared is being harassed by Thimbletack, the house boggart, and Simon has a very hungry griffin recuperating in the carriage house. Mallory is convinced that the only way to stop the madness is to chuck the Guide. But that's not an option. With all...
Things at the Spiderwick estate are getting completely out of hand. If being attacked by a band of marauding goblins and almost eaten by a bridge troll wasn't enough, how Jared is being harassed by Thimbletack, the house boggart, and Simon has a very hungry griffin recuperating in the carriage house. Mallory is convinced that the only way to stop the madness is to chuck the Guide. But that's not an option. With all...
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Bruised and battered, Jared, Simon, and Mallory return home to find their home ransacked and learn that Mulgarath has made off with their mother and Spiderwick's Guide. With only the help of Thimbletack, Hogsqueal and Byron, the Grace kids have to defeat Mulgarath and his goblin army. But they have to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from Lorengorn and the elves first.
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Charlie Hall nunca encontró una cerradura que no pudiera forzar, un libro que no pudiera robar o una mala decisión que no tomaría. Ha pasado la mitad de su vida trabajando para gloamists, magos que manipulan las sombras para mirar en habitaciones cerradas, estrangulan a la gente en sus camas o algo peor. Los gloamistas guardan sus secretos con avidez, creando una economía clandestina de grimorios. Y para robar a sus compañeros magos, necesitan...