18 books like Through the Veil
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.
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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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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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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?
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Initiation
Tonight you take the last step on
Your journey of a year and a day.
Welcome home, o new-made witch,
And in our circle rest and stay.
The joyful culmination of a year and a day's dedication -- Kate, Annie, and Cooper's Wiccan initiation -- brings celebration, an exhilarating ritual, and unexpected choices for the new witches.
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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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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....
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Cemetery Boys
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.
However, the ghost he summons is actually…
Shares: Spirits, Witches, Paranormal, Young Adult
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
Zombie Halloween
What Happens to This House on Halloween?
Kenny Manzetti was the new kid in town. His family moved back in to an old house to help take care of his grandfather. Everyone in his new neighborhood is obsessed with zombies--even Grandpa Mo. But then a new family moves in next door and their choice in furniture is...interesting.
Kenny is convinced that there is something strange about the new…
Shares: Halloween, Children's fiction
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth
Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
Shares: Occult fiction, Witches, Children's fiction
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 vanishing pumpkin
A 700-year-old woman and an 800-year-old man, both witches, go searching on Halloween night for the pumpkin someone snitched from them.
Shares: Halloween, Witches, Children's fiction
The Spook's Curse
The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there’s some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. The Bane!
But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives, intent on hunting down anyone who meddles with the dark.…
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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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Zombiefied!
The fourth and final book in this hilariously spooky and spookily hilarious middle-grade series!Trick or treat?!It's Benjamin Roy's first Halloween as a zombie and he's keen to see if being a real ghoul gets him more candy. But it doesn't take long before the tricks become dangerous and the treats turn deadly. Then when the only bridge out of town is destroyed, and corpses start creeping from…
Shares: Halloween, Adventure, Children's fiction
Canyons
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Shares: Spirits, Adventure, Children's fiction