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81) The wolf man
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales. He is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Hiding as a servant in Count Montoni's mansion while tending to this family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon, Emile finds himself torn between two very different men as he fights for the love he deserves-- and his own survival.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
85) Splintered
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
86) Kill me softly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.
87) The accursed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a savage lynching in a nearby town is hushed up, a horrifying chain of events is initiated in turn-of-the-century Princeton-- until it becomes apparent that the families living there have been beset by a powerful curse. The Devil has come to this little town and not a soul will be spared.
Author
Series
Nevermoor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--
89) Beastly beauty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When handsome thief Beau enters the castle that appeared out of nowhere he finds himself trapped in Arabella's curse, which can only be broken if she finds a boy who loves her for her true self--a seeming impossibility for a girl who has been told she is impossible to love.
90) The heiresses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Poppy, Aster, Corrine, Natasha, and Rowan are the heiresses of the Saybrook's jewellery empire, a family business that is known for both its wealth, and a very old curse that leads to family members dying suddenly. When one of the 5 heiresses is killed, and an online gossip site publishes a statement "One Heiress Down, 4 more to go", an investigation is opened.
Author
Series
Shades of rust and ruin volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nix and Clarey search for Nix's uncle in the parallel world Mystiquel, where Nix discovers there is more to her family curse and otherworldly artwork than she ever imagined-and unless she can solve the Goblin King's maze before the clock strikes midnight, the curse will claim more lives.
Phoenix "Nix" Loring knows her family is under a Halloween curse. When she was three, her parents tragically died on October 31st. Eleven years later, her twin sister...
92) The 12th candle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her twelfth birthday, Sage wishes on a magical candle for an end to the family curse she believes caused many problems, including sending her father to prison.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A 'rom-com' standalone romance by writing duo Christina Lauren. Foul-mouthed, quirky, sharp-as-a-whip Hazel never thought she would win the heart of her gorgeous college TA, Josh. And, in fact, she didn't. But what a difference ten years can make. Well...ten years, and a lot of legwork"--
Author
Series
You're invited to a creepover volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Bree is delighted to get the lead role in "The Last Sleepover" at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, but from the start the rehearsals are marked by strange occurrences until she begins to fear she will not survive opening night.
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
98) Silver nitrate
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Language
English
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is...
Author
Series
Mousehunter trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Emiline and Scratcher set off on a quest to free Mousebeard from the curse that keeps him bound to the sea, they end up in the lost land of mice known as Norgammon.