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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
5) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I.B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
8) The icy hand
Author
Series
Something wickedly weird volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Spending the winter at Candlestick Hall, the home he inherited from his great-uncle Bartholomew, young Stanley encounters a headless ghost, a talking fish, and a female companion who joins Stanley in a battle against "deadly" pirates bent on stealing a magical family heirloom.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--Provided by publisher.
10) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
11) The Water Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ephraim Appledore-Smith moves into Water Castle with his mother and stroke-afflicted father, he makes two new friends whose family history is tied to the castle. The three of them set out to discover the castle's magic in the hopes of helping Ephraim's father recover.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.
Author
Series
Ulysses Moore volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, match wits with Peter Dedalus, the elusive inventor who created Kilmore Cove's Mirror House, as they try to uncover the secret hidden somewhere inside before Oblivia Newton can find it.
16) The collector
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Josie must discover the connection between a strange house in the woods, her grandmother's stories, and missing children, or risk losing her sister to dark magic.
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Trina, who has never lived anywhere long enough to call home, is excited about moving into Goldenrod, an abandoned mansion, with her dad. But soon Goldenrod brings its secrets to her attention, including a forgotten doll, leaving Trina wondering what the old house wants from her"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
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