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• Curse of the Night Witch

  Aster, Alex,

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  After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.

• Carnival Chaos

  Baptiste, Tracey,

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  When Misty moved from Trinidad to Brooklyn, she was not expecting to discover she is a moko jumbie spirit, that she and her cousins all have magic, and she certainly did not expect to discover a plot to capture magical power during the annual West…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jumbies

  Baptiste, Tracey

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  Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

• Maya and the Rising Dark

  Barron, Rena,

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  Struggling to understand why nobody else in her South Side Chicago neighborhood can see strange phenomena, 12-year-old Maya discovers that her missing father has been protecting a supernatural boundary between worlds.

• The Marvellers

  Clayton, Dhonielle,

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  The first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute along with Marvellers from around the world, 11-year-old Ella must prove her innocence, with the help of a new friend, when a dangerous criminal escapes and her mentor disappears.

• Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza

  Kemp, Laekan Zea,

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  A girl must learn to trust herself--and her ancestral powers--when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza.

• Winston Chu Vs. the Whimsies

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),

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  Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.

• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

  Okogwu, Tola,

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  When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.

• Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls

  Rivera, Kaela,

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  Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujera to rescue her kidnapped sister.

• Root Magic

  Royce, Eden,

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  It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conjure Island

  Royce, Eden,

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  From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she’s never met—only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic.

• Hoodoo

  Smith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard), 1959-

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  In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Manifestor Prophecy

  Thomas, Angie,

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  When her dad, a great Manifestor, is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, twelve-year-old Nic Blake, along with her hellhound and two friends, hunts for a powerful magical tool that could save him.

• Lotería

  Valenti, Karla,

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  In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors

  Villanueva, Gail D.,

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  Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos while trying to save her mom with her newfound…Read moreRead more of this annotation