18 books like The Reckoning
The battle for the Brightstone
Mikal, the young wizard, and his friend Lyra do battle on land and sea as they continue to seek the magical talking head, Orry, and prevent renegade wizard Harlano from finding and destroying the Brightstone and ending all magic.
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The Time of the Ghost
From Publishers Weekly
Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation…
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The Awakening
If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose…
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The Royal Book of Oz
Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island.
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The ghost wore gray
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Reckless
Jacob Reckless is a treasure hunter in a world behind a mirror, a place of dangerous magic. There, accompanied by Fox, a shape-shifting girl, he's lived up to his name. But disaster strikes when his younger brother follows him through the glass. Unless Jacob can save him, his brother will turn to stone.
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The Edge of the Knife
Ed Chalmers, history professor, had a real problem in his classes: he kept blurting out events that hadn't happened yet. Of course that made him the butt of jokes and ridicule, and the Dean wanted him out despite his tenure. But Ed had other ideas ... especially when his predictions started coming true!
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Fool's Errand
Fool's Errand
Robin Hobb has emerged as one of today's foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her most popular heroes in the first book of what promises to be her most spectacular trilogy yet. Fool's ErrandFor fifteen years FitzChivalry Farseer has lived in self-imposed exile, assumed to be dead by almost all who once cared about him. But that is about to change when destiny seeks…
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The Screaming Staircase
*Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.*
This book is part of a brilliant series for children (and parents) who love to be creeped out. It’s set in London when the city is experiencing an outbreak of ghosts who kill people if they come into contact with them. The catch: only children can see them. These stories features the…
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Wilderness
Alice White has a secret. There is no friend or family member she can confide in—and she cannot trust it to the strangers she chooses for the fevered one-night stands that are as close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik Summers, college professor and biologist, who draws Alice from her cage, igniting a passion within her that she can't control or deny. Though he shares her fire and a…
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The Enchanted Island of Yew
A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures.
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Remember me 3
Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories.
Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them…
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The Ghost Belonged to Me
In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost.
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Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1)
"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher.
Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it is hard to stay in business when magic is drying up.…
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz
"Where's the butter, Unc Nunkie?" asked Ojo.
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The ghosts
In the garden of their new home, a brother and sister meet two strange children with whom they return to another century.
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The Hollow Boy
As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines. There is a new spirit of openness in the team now that Lockwood has…
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Christina's Ghost
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
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