Magic Study
Maria V. Snyder
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Yelena’s hoped-for reunion and magic training are complicated by feeling out of place, a strict deadline and competing dangers. The story also brings her into a political struggle over Ixia’s throne.
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Maria V. Snyder
Yelena’s hoped-for reunion and magic training are complicated by feeling out of place, a strict deadline and competing dangers. The story also brings her into a political struggle over Ixia’s throne.
Daisy Meadows
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Kersten Hamilton
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Anna Meriano
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Clive King
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Daisy Meadows
A magical search story links flowers in the human world with fairies’ petals. Rachel and Kirsty help Danielle and the other Petal Fairies look for what has been scattered.
Shannon Dittemore
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Francesca Flores
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Ash Van Otterloo
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Lauren Myracle
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Richelle Mead
A supernatural romance-and-peril finale, with two intertwined strands: Sydney’s pursuit of a former enemy and Adrian’s investigation of spirit magic. It is the sixth Bloodlines book.
Brandon Mull
This is a fantasy adventure built around a search, a resistance and a mystery about stolen powers. Its appeal may lie in the blend of strange technology and magic.
Daisy Meadows
This is a magical friendship adventure built around a camp-night problem: the girls are kept awake by bad dreams while Sabrina has yet to recover her magic.
Alyson Noël
This instalment combines supernatural peril with a romantic dilemma: Ever’s efforts to help Damen unfold alongside an unexpected attraction to Jude.
Brigid Kemmerer
A fantasy romance about a curse, a prince’s transformation and Harper’s arrival in a magical land, with disability and family hardship also part of her story.
Wendy Mass
This is a birthday-centred fantasy adventure in which Tara’s search for unusual objects brings her into contact with eccentric townspeople and new friends.
Sue Bentley
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Julia Mary Gibson
This is a fantasy about a child hoping to repair a family in distress, with consequences that reach beyond her home. Its blend of magic, loss and jeopardy may appeal to readers who enjoy emotionally rooted adventures.
A linked fantasy collection with different heroines and challenges: a rescue journey, a princess finding her own magical abilities, and a girl learning to manage dragon transformations.
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The appeal lies in a resourceful young protagonist, a museum setting and a mystery that mixes missing mummies with secret societies and supernatural danger.
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Elizabeth Goudge
A magical village adventure sits alongside a story about siblings finding a more welcoming home. Expect mysteries and eccentric characters, with the children taking an active part in what happens.
Penni Russon
This is a fantasy about managing powerful magic alongside travel, friendship and uncertain relationships. Undine’s inner conflict and Trout’s feelings give the story a personal focus as well as a magical one.
Daisy Meadows
This is a magical, fairy-tale adventure in which two girls help fairy friends after a theft disrupts familiar stories. Its appeal may lie in seeing storybook worlds become tangled.
Jacqueline A. Kolosov
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Kate Brian
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Stephanie Burgis
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Laura Anne Gilman
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Diana Wynne Jones
A fantasy mystery pairs Cat’s investigation of a strange egg with Marianne’s decision about her own magic, while family secrets and disruptive spells complicate their efforts.
Lucy Ruggles
This is a fantasy adventure about siblings facing a threat involving an enchanted amulet. University and laboratory settings sit alongside witchcraft, sorcery and a plot to develop a youth serum.
Zoran Drvenkar
A supernatural story begins with a secret visit to a grave and an unsettling discovery in a crypt. Afterwards, Alissa’s perceptions and the lives of those around her begin to change.
Adam-Troy Castro
A fantasy adventure built around a rescue search, magical travel and encounters with foes. Its central pull is whether Fernie and Gustav can find the Shadow Country and help their families.
Thomas W. Phelan, Tracy M. Lewis
The book aims to help children understand a discipline system their parents will use, rather than simply presenting rules from an adult’s perspective.
Laurel Snyder
A child-centred fantasy built around imaginative journeys and the possibility of learning more about friends, family and oneself. Its appeal seems to lie in wondering where the wall might lead.
Rachel Roberts
A portal-fantasy adventure about three girls tasked with protecting magical animals, with friendship and the natural world among its stated themes.
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L. K. Madigan
This is a mermaid story combining surfing, family life and magic, with Lena's encounter with the mermaid and her mirror at its centre.
Lesley Livingston
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Shanna Swendson
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Daisy Meadows
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