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Not Just A Witch
Ibbotson, Eva F I12n
Heckie is a young, kindly witch with a remarkable ability: She can change anything into an animal. After graduating from a good witch school, Heckie and her pal set out to eliminate the world of bad people by changing them into critters. When she meets Lionel Knacksap, a furrier, he asks for her hand in marriage. Unfortunately, Heckie doesn't realize that her fiancé is only out for snow leopard pelts! |
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Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Aronson, Marc 133.4 A769
In a plain meetinghouse, a poor, unpopular woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are the girls acting, or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare in Salem has begun: The witch trials will eventually claim twenty-five lives, shatter the community, and forever shape the American social conscience. |
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Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Shan, Darren F S526v
Darren was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now Darren joins the powerful vampire Mr. Crepsley. As he struggles with his new life as a vampire's assistant, Darren tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him and the one thing that can keep him alive. |
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Sabriel
Nix, Garth F N7357s
Sabriel is an apprentice necromancer who must enter the realm of dead to save her trapped father and defeat the evil spirit who entrapped him. To accomplish this task, Sabriel must leave the modern world of Ancelstierre to journey into the Old Kingdom that is being overtaken by the walking dead. However, these worlds clash when the evil spirit Kerrigor returns to the modern world to claim his mortal body. |
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The Campfire Collection
Martin, Eric F C195 SC
In the good old-fashioned tradition of story-telling, The Campfire Collection offers twenty-five spine-tingling tales, both true and fictional, of the human experience in the great outdoors. From beastly attacks, to brushes with death and supernatural encounters, this anthology captures the cruel, sometimes macabre, side of Mother Nature. And it isn't pretty. |
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The Supernaturalist
Colfer, Eoin F C685s
Abandoned by his parents as an infant, Cosmo Hill grows up in the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, a ghastly orphanage that puts the boys to work testing dangerous products. It's escape or die, and Cosmo's lucky enough to be rescued by the Supernaturalists. These three young people share Cosmo's gift of being able to see the Parasites. The four begin hunting the beings down, but are the Parasites the real menace? |
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Kit's Wilderness
Almond, David F A452k
The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. Left to "die" alone in a dark, abandoned mine shaft, he has an otherworldly experience that piques his curiosity about the mine's history and the past connections between his family and the Askews. |
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Spirited Away
Miyazaki, Hayao DV 791.43 S759
A ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, while passing through a strange abandoned village on her way to her new home, finds her greedy parents transformed into pigs after being tempted by delicious food. In order for them to become human again, Chihiro must work in a surreal bathhouse for monsters, spirits, and other supernatural critters, under the supervision of a witch named Yubaba. |
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The Probable Future
Hoffman, Alice F H6982p
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future - a future that she might not want to see. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. |
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Missing Angel Juan
Block, Francesca Lia F B651m
When Angel Juan leaves L. A. to play his music and find himself in New York, Witch Baby, wild and restless without him, follows. There, she finds a city of glittery buildings, garbage, Chinese food, drug dealers, subways, kids playing hip-hopscotch and the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat. |
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