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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she know that she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
42) The silver bowl
Author
Series
Silver bowl trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Khatchadorian family discovers they have inherited a million dollars, but to get it, they must stay in a ramshackle house in Beverly Hills and Rafe has to attend a snooty new middle school.
Author
Series
Lumatere chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Froi and his companions travel through Charyn to find Quintana and build an army to secure her unborn child's right to rule, an effort that culminates in an ultimate showdown with Isaboe of Lumatere.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
En cada generación de la Isla de Fennbirn nacen trillizas y las tres son reinas, herederas en partes iguales de la corona, cada una poseedora de una magia codiciada. Mirabella es una elemental feroz, capaz de encender llamaradas voraces o tormentas brutales con un chasquido de dedos. Katharine es una envenenadora, alguien que puede ingerir los venenos más mortales sin nada más que un dolor de panza. De Arsinoe, una naturalista, se dice que tiene...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Inside her father's circus at the dawn of the twentieth century, a spirited Canadian girl fights for equality and the right to her inheritance.
"This middle--grade novel is about an irrepressible girl thrust into challenging circumstances. Her great-aunt Ada has died and a committee of relatives is bent on vulturing Ephemia's education trust fund for themselves. Twelve-year-old Effy's only hope is to locate and dazzle her long lost poppa before time...
47) Emily's fortune
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
48) Hotel Flamingo
Author
Series
Hotel Flamingo volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Anne is the new owner of Hotel Flamingo and she has a challenge on her hands. The once-grand hotel has fallen into disrepair. It's up to her to restore it to its former glory-and to find a way to make every animal, big or small, feel at home..." -- Back cover.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
50) The Raven heir
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Cordelia, a young shapeshifter who has always lived in an enchanted forest with her siblings and mother, must now use her powers to discover the truth about who the Raven Heir really is"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emily's inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jackson's, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emily's fortune.
52) A peculiar peril
Author
Series
Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
53) Will in scarlet
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try retake Shackley Castle.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twelve-year-old Seymour Hope and his ghostly "mother" Olive go to Scotland to claim a castle inherited from Ignatius Grumply's punster uncle, Ian, but while they tend an aged tortoise and face an unscrupulous developer, Iggie deals with Ian's ghost and an inept insurance agent.
Author
Series
13 days of midnight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a Host of eight unique, powerful, and restless spirits. Unfortunately, Luke has no clue how to manage them, which the ghosts figure out pretty quickly. Armed with only his father's indecipherable notes, and a locked copy of "The Book of Eight", Luke struggles to adapt to his new role as a necromancer. Meanwhile, the increasingly belligerent Host mutinies, possesses...
Author
Series
Silver bowl trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
57) Wave riders
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After their guardian disappears, twelve-year-old twins Jess and Jude are fostered by the Blakeney family, but their search for information about their parents puts them in danger when they uncover secrets their wealthy benefactors want to keep hidden.
Author
Series
Treasure troop volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Marly, Sai, and Isla are back on the hunt. After finding Mr. Summerling's hidden treehouse, they've discovered a new set of clues for them to follow, leading them straight to the heart of their mysterious neighbor's life: his house. The same house Marly has been living next to all of these years, which, they discover, is filled with hidden rooms and staircases. With just a few scraps of papers as clues, and Mr. Summerling's angry son on their tails,...
Author
Series
Dark Lord's daughter volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Kayla is just an ordinary girl . . . or so she thinks. When a day at the state fair is interrupted by the news that she’s the daughter of a “Dark Lord,” she and her family are quickly whisked to another world--one that’s chock-full of magic but lacking in technology! As her family encounters fantastical creatures in place of their Earthly gadgets, Kayla must prepare for meeting her father, the Dark Lord himself, for the very first time. All...
60) The aviary
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.