 | Savvy by Ingrid Law
Buy new: $9.93 / Used from: $7.45 This book, which won a 2009 Newbery Honor Award, is the tallish tale of a family whose kids all get a magical power or savvy on their 13th birthday. Mibs hits the road with her siblings and friends, hoping her new savvy can help save her father.
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 | The Nine Pound Hammer: Book 1 of The Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $1.49 Searching for answers about his father, young Ray ends up with sideshow performers on a rickety train traveling through the South, where he learns that tall tales can be real--and might just be his heritage.
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 | Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic Book) by Patricia C. Wrede
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.67 A new series set in an alternative America during the 1800s. Eff's twin is the seventh son of a seventh son and magically gifted, but Eff is a thirteenth child and her relatives are convinced she is evil. Her father moves the family to the edge of the frontier to teach at a small college and assist settlers in holding back the dangerous beasts who live beyond the Great Barrier Spell.
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 | The Boy Who Grew Flowers by Jennifer Wojtowicz
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $8.10 Like the family in Savvy, the Bowagons in this 2005 picture book live in the deep country and have magical abilities. The title character is not a gardener: he sprouts flowers all over his body each full moon. A lovely allegorical tale about kindness and being different.
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 | Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 When Claire's cousin Duke drops her in the Mississippi River, things don't go quite the way he planned--he sprouts a rhino horn. Now Claire and Duke must deal with river trolls and worse to put things right.
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 | The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $7.92 Recently recommended to me, this book tells of a boy who must confront a shadowy figure hiding in a barn during Dust Bowl days.
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 | Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $7.51 In this graphic novel, award-winning children's fantasy author Hale gives us an Old West version of Rapunzel, complete with long braids that can lasso a bad guy and help her defeat a witch.
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 | The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.23 Piper McCloud can fly, but her farm family doesn't think that's right, especially her mother. When she is sent to a special school, she learns what it means to be different and to have true friends--as well as false ones.
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 | The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford Mckenzie
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $1.71 Farmboy Elijah is a worrywort, and it worries him a lot when he sees mysterious goings-on in the family cemetery. Then things get worse--his parents disappear and he must go live with his witchy aunts Serena and Agnes, who keep watching his chin.
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 | Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for the Buried Moon by Sally Keehn
Buy used from: $0.01 In this rollicking story with an Appalachian setting, Magpie Gabbard must return her brother's foot, get the stolen moon back from the goblins, and end a decades-long feud with another clan.
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 | Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen by Sally Keehn
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 12-year-old Gnat Stokes is determined to rescue Goodlow Pryce from the Swamp Queen, but she's less willing to admit that he's a little too old for her and already has a true love.
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 | Ingledove by Marly Youmans
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 There's a secret land hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains. When Ingledove and her brother Lang travel to Adantis, Lang is bespelled by an evil creature disguised as a beautiful woman. Now Ingledove must rely on a Witchmaster to get her brother back. A dark, solemn, high fantasy tale.
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 | The Curse of the Raven Mocker by Marly Youmans
Buy used from: $0.01 The Hidden People are Irish, Scots, and Cherokee. Adanta's father has gone on a quest and her mother has been lured away by the Lean One, but Adanta is determined to find them and stop the Raven Mockers from destroying her family.
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 | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Stew Meat recounts what happens when three young people buy wishes from a mysterious man at the church social, Thaddeus Blinn. But all of the wishes backfire.
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 | The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen by Myron Levoy
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.49 When Amy and Joshua escape crazy Aunt Vootch in search of their grandparents, they meet Mortimer Wintergreen. But can his magic hat protect them from outlaws, geese, and their aunt as their wagon heads west?
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