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1) The witches
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
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Worst witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mildred Hubble's first term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches starts badly when, unlike her classmates, she can't control her broom, her kitten, or her spells.
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Tales of the Frog Princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.
4) Which witch?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."
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Series
Last apprentice volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
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Last apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
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Tales of the Frog Princess volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Esmeralda, who is both a princess and a powerful witch, must travel back in time to end a family curse or risk losing her true love, Prince Eadric, forever.
11) I am Alice
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Last apprentice volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch--possibly the most powerful one the county has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark"--
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Last apprentice volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
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Disney villains volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Examines the life of Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's adoptive mother, to find out her motivations behind abducting the princess and locking her in a tower to shield her from a cruel world.
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Last apprentice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
15) Well witched
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Three friends fall prey to the demands of the Well Witch when they trespass in her wishing well and steal some coins.
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Series
Last apprentice volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to destroy Tom.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Witches of Orkney volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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As Abigail enters her second year at Tarkana Witch Academy, she and her friend Hugo are swept into a puzzling mystery involving an Orkadian warship and a powerful missing item.
20) The witch family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Two little girls who love to draw witches build an elaborate world around the imaginary Old Witch and her family.