18 books like Initiation
Delirium
The first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward…
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Ring of Light
Here within the healing circle,
Bathe in the light and pain dispel,
All that sickens, all that troubles,
Wash away and be made well.
Disillusioned, Cooper abandons the Wiccan circle and Kate and Annie are left without her. But when an illness threatens someone close to one of them, Cooper returns. Can the circle, once broken, ever be restored?
Shares: Wiccans, Wicca, Witches, Paranormal
In the Dreaming
On the eve of fair midsummer,
Longest day and shortest night,
Faerie magic, fill these woods,
With joyous song and laughter bright.
Midsummer's eve finds Kate, Annie, and Cooper celebrating the most joyous sabbat with nature -- and a few not unwelcome strangers. On a night when identities and emotions become tangled and confused under the strange solstice sky, one will be led astray.
Shares: Wiccans, Wicca, Witches, Paranormal
Second Sight
Show me places cloaked in secrets,
pierce the gloom of darkest night.
Reveal that which has been hidden,
Let Me see with second sight.
Kate, Annie, and Cooper are Wiccans -- joined by magic bound to nature. Their dreams have turned to visions of a missing girl, calling to them for help....
Shares: Wiccans, Wicca, High school students, Witches
Blue Moon
Ancient moon, O ageless traveler,
sailing on the sea of stars,
as once more you come to fullness,
turn your shining face to ours.
The second full moon of the month—the blue moon—is a time when powers are heightened, with unpredictable results. When Annie attempts the channeling practice called aspecting, she changes into someone Cooper and Kate hardly recognize. Can their combined strength…
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What the Cards Said
Cards of fortune, tell your I story,
Answer all I've come to ask
let the draw set forth the course
of what has been and yet may pass
Annie's fascination with Tarot spirals beyond her control when her readings become reality. As if cursed, Annie faces friends Cooper and Kate with this newfound power—a power that threatens the very strength of their Wiccan bond.
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Merry Meet
Joined together hand in hand our circle gathers round,
to work our magic, weave the web, and dance on sacred ground.
By the goddess we are called, witch to witch and friend to friend,
to merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again.
A book of spells brought Kate, Cooper, and Annie together. The three are compelled to learn more, and the door is opened with the stirring ritual of the…
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So Mote It Be
With this ribbon I do bind
My heart to yours and yours to mine.
Love, I call you, come to me,
As is my will, so mote it be.
Kate cast the love spell with results unforeseen. She cannot stop it by herself, but the book of spells tells her of two strangers who can help her -- if only she can find them.
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Through the Veil
As the year comes to an ending,
in the hour 'tween old and new,
part the veil and let pass
the spirits who would travel through.
As Annie, Kate, and Cooper prepare for Samhain, or Halloween, they are filled with anticipation. It is a time when the veil between the worlds is thin, and those who have passed into the spirit world may be more easily contacted. Those Annie holds dear dwell behind…
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Wizard of Washington Square
David and Leilah are delighted to meet the wizard who lives in the park until he accidently turns David's dog into a statue and the statue is stolen.
Shares: Witches, Magic, Children's fiction
Awakening
For now, Morgan is safe from the dark wave that has been attacking witches. Betrayed by her first love, she is trying to come to grips with her Woodbane heritage and with Wicca—its thorn and its rose.
Shares: Wicca, Witches, Paranormal, Adventure
A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch (The Worst Witch #3)
Although her second year at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches starts off better than her first, Mildred Hubble soon regains her reputation as the worst witch in the school when she and Ethel Hallow resume feuding.
Shares: Witches, Paranormal, Young Adult, Children's fiction
The red sun
"Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it's up to Sam to save them. Sam embarks on a journey to Orkney through a stonefire to find his friends, but when he arrives, he…
Shares: Friendship, Magic, Adventure, Children's fiction
Lizzie Dripping
A sumptuous collection of favourite tales by renowned author Helen Cresswell, with exquisite illustrations by Siân Bailey.Open this book and enter the magical world of fairy tales, a land of mystery and enchantment, alive with handsome princes, wicked queens and beautiful heroines.This classically beautiful collection brings together twelve popular fairy tales, retold by well-known author Helen…
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The Goat-Foot God
Desperate and wretched after the death of his wife at the hands of her lover, Hugh Paston becomes engrossed in the occult and goes on a quest for Pan, aided by an old bookseller called Jelkes. In order to fulfil his desire he buys an old monastery to convert into a temple for Pan. The monastery is haunted however by the spirit of a fifteenth century prior who was walled up for his pagan beliefs…
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The boy with two shadows
When a witch decides to go on holiday she looks for someone to look after her shadow. But having two shadows to look after, especially when one belongs to a witch, is a big job, as a little boy is about to find out."
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Little Broomstick
A black cat that needs to rescue its brother from a witch's spell enlists the help of a lonely ten-year-old Mary Smith.
It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly afterwards, she is astonished to feel it jump in to action. Before she can gather her wits, it is whisking her over the treetops, above the clouds, and in…
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Fat Angie
Angie is broken—by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Having failed to kill herself—in front of a gym full of kids—Angie’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, a girl who knows too well that the package doesn’t…
Shares: High school students, Friendship, Young Adult, Children's fiction