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Author
Lexile Measure
770L
Summary
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
2) The jumbies
Author
Series
The Jumbies volume 1
Lexile Measure
680L
Summary
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
4) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Summary
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Author
Series
Willa of the wood volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile Measure
920L
Summary
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Lexile Measure
920L
Summary
In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
Author
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Lexile Measure
830L
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Summary
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
Author
Series
Sky fall volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Summary
While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known.
Author
Series
The Jumbies volume 2
Lexile Measure
690L
Formats
Summary
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
12) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Summary
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
13) Far away
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
Twelve-year-old CJ believes her mom is dead and that she can only communicate with her through her aunt, who is a medium, but when CJ finds out that her mother is actually alive, she goes on a journey to find her.
Author
Series
The Jumbies volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Summary
After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
Author
Series
Willa of the wood volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Summary
"Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, she is helpless to stop them ... How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful...
19) Dead connection
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
740L
Summary
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.