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23) Villa incognito
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American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore.
25) Thistlefoot
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"The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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"Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. She's bullied by the popular girls in school. Her parents ignore her. And she's also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Kyoto. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. Not exactly skilled...
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Shadow of the fox volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish--and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only...
30) Gun island
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2019.
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It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure which has long haunted Deen's imagination: Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depths of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins...
31) Folklorn
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2021.
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A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families. Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend-an achingly familiar, spectral...
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2020.
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"Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons. The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster...
33) The wishing tree
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.
34) Elatsoe
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
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Shadow of the fox volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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One thousand years ago, a wish was made, and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. A weapon powerful enough to seal away the formidable demon Hakaimono. Now, he has broken free. Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful Scroll of a Thousand Prayers to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant...
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Otulissa's compendium becomes a catchall guide to the history, life, and spirit of the tree and its heroes: Joss, brave messenger of legends; the brothers Ifghar and Ezylryb; Theo, the peaceful warrior; Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight's lives before they came to the tree; Strix Struma, Uglamore, Trader Mags, and others.
39) Valiant
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Modern faerie tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"The winter holiday season is a time for gifts and music, for snow and miracles, and for family and going home. For Jessie Malone, it's a time for sorrow. Jessie is a graduate student living in London, where she hopes to be one of the first folklorists ever to trace an urban legend back to its original source. She's also a grieving young widow unable to heal from the agony of her life-shattering loss. In the bleak midwinter, Jessie learns of an urban...