Magic Can Be Murder
10 best books like Magic Can Be Murder (Vivian Vande Velde): Akin, Curtsies & Conspiracies, A College of Magics, The Grand Tour, Spy High Mission One: The Frankenstein Factory, Aquicorn Cove, Into the Land of the Unicorns, Cart and Cwidder, Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, Going Bovine
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0316491993 |
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing...
| Author | Caroline Stevermer |
| ISBN | 0765342456 |
Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it!
But Greenlaw is...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152055568 |
Kate and Cecy and their new husbands, Thomas and James, are off on a leisurely tour of the Continent. But once they arrive in France, strange things start to happen. Cecy receives a mysterious package, Thomas's valet is assaulted, and Kate loses a glove. Soon it becomes clear that the newlyweds have stumbled...
Spy High Mission One: The Frankenstein Factory
| Author | A.J. Butcher |
| ISBN | 0316737607 |
You know that series you become unduly obsessed with when your young? They're usually books no one else have heard of. They aren't available at the library. But you love them with the fiery passion of a cult leader, and you spend the next three months of sixth grade fruitlessly trying o get others to read...
| Author | Katie O'Neill |
| ISBN | 1620105292 |
When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a storm, the last thing she expects is to discover a colony of Aquicorns—magical seahorse-like residents of the coral reef. As she explores the damaged town and the fabled undersea palace, Lana learns that while she...
Into the Land of the Unicorns
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0439108381 |
One unicorn dwells on Earth.
Hundreds fight in Luster.
Their legends are recorded in
THE UNICORN CHRONICLES
Into the Land of the Unicorns
As each chime sounds, Cara climbs faster up the steep bell tower. Eleven! She must be on the roof when the next bell tolls. Twelve! With...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0064473139 |
For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- must join forces to reunify their beloved land. When Moril inherits...
| Author | Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| ISBN | 0525392440 |
The first thing to understand is that this is probably not a book that could be written today, and it's certainly not a book that could be published today. In order to deal with it at all, we have to have that understanding up front.
Although Shen of the Sea is subtitled "Chinese Stories for Children,"...
| Author | Libba Bray |
| ISBN | 0385733976 |
Can Cameron find what he’s looking for?
All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0152055487 |
Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James and Cecy's search reveals a shocking truth ...
The...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 0547571607 |
The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey’s poems are at once deeply personal and historical—exploring her own interracial and complicated roots—and utterly American, connecting them...
| Author | Andrew Nance |
| ISBN | 0805081712 |
Is winning a writing contest worth risking your life?
Nothing exciting ever happens in the town of Maplewood--that is, until famous thriller writer Ian Tremblin holds a short-story writing contest with a prize that seems to be the opportunity of a lifetime: five finalists will get to spend...
| Author | Nina George |
| ISBN | 0525572538 |
Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales...
