J. A. White
1) Nightbooks
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English
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Imprisoned by Natacha, a witch, in a New York apartment, Alex must tell her a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.
2) Gravebooks
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English
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"Alex again has to write stories to survive, this time learning to finish discarded ideas and overcome writer's block, after he's held hostage in his dreams by fear vampire Simeon, working alongside evil witch Natacha in a story graveyard"--
3) Archimancy
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Shadow School volume 1
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English
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Sixth-graders Cordelia, Agnes, and Benji go on a quest to unravel the secrets of Shadow School.
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The thickety volume 1
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Kara discovers her mother's grimoire in the dangerous forest, she must decide if she'll use it, even though such magic is forbidden"--
5) Dehaunting
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Shadow School volume 2
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English
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Return to Shadow School for the second installment of the spooky middle-grade series from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of Nightbooks and The Thickety series.
Cordelia Liu's first year at Shadow School was a success. She studied hard and made friends. She also sent hundreds of ghosts into the afterlife, because Shadow School isn't a normal school, and Cordelia Liu isn't a normal girl.
But her second year is already different. Ghosts are refusing...
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The thickety volume 4
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English
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The spellbinding conclusion in the critically acclaimed Thickety series, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman.
In The Thickety #4: The Last Spell, Kara and her brother Taff must find the hidden pieces of Princess Evangeline's grimoire to defeat Rygoth and her army of witches in one last good versus evil battle. Kara and Taff have discovered that the Spider Queen is searching for Princess Evangeline's grimoire-the Vulkera. Legends say that any witch who...
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The thickety volume 3
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English
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J. A. White's The Thickety: Well of Witches is an epic quest into an enchanted kingdom with new kinds of magic, an old enemy, and only one way out. Fans of Neil Gaiman will love this third novel in the spectacular and twisty fantasy series that has readers and reviewers raving. Kara and Taff know that only Grace Stone has the power to reverse her Last Spell on their father, and that in order to save him, they have to rescue their foe from the Well...
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The thickety volume 2
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English
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Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, book two in the acclaimed Thickety series is the story of a good witch, a bad witch, and a forest demon, trapped together in a world that is both enchanting and dangerous.
After Kara Westfall's village turns on her for practicing witchcraft, she and her brother, Taff, flee to the one place they know they won't be followed: the Thickety. Only this time Kara is magicless without her grimoire and Sordyr, the forest demon,...
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English
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The Thickety: A Path Begins is a spellbinding tale about a girl, the Thickety, and the power of magic. Fans of Neil Gaiman will love this thrilling new world. When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of the worst of all crimes: witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic…except, perhaps, the mysterious forest...
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Destino Infantil & Juvenil
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Sabes que las cosas no pueden ir a peor si una escapada nocturna acaba contigo encerrado en el piso de una bruja. Y te das cuenta de lo equivocado que estabas y de que todo puede empeorar cuando te despiertas y ves que, lo que creías haber soñado, no era, ni de lejos, una pesadilla.
Y ahí está Alex, atrapado en casa de una bruja, de las malas, maldiciendo el momento en que le pareció buena idea entrar en el piso de una desconocida a ver una peli...
11) Phantoms
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English
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Cordelia's last year at Shadow School brings readers back for the finale in the spooky middle grade trilogy by J.A. White, the author of the acclaimed Thickety series and Nightbooks. Cordelia must complete her quest to save the world of the living from the ghosts, and dangerous phantoms, who terrorize them.
It's her final year at Shadow School, and Cordelia Liu isn't ready to move on. Which is funny, considering helping ghosts "move on" is sort of...