Magical Adventures for Middle Grade Kids

"It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven, and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always...

The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.

Fin lives in the magic-infused town of Aldermere, the only place she's ever felt safe from her overwhelming fears. A simple cup of tea from the tea shop makes them disappear, and all it costs is a single memory. But when a visit to the tea shop goes sideways, Fin unleashes a shadow self who wreaks havoc everywhere she goes. It's up to Fin, her cousin Eddie, and her friend Cedar put things right before the monster destroys Aldermere.

After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.

Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.

Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor African American girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.

A young fox named Isla returns to her den one day to find it ablaze, surrounded by a pack of hostile foxes. She flees in search of shelter, narrowly avoiding many dangers, and makes it to the city. Once there, Isla is taken in by a handsome fox named Siffrin who decides to teach her the ways of foxcraft--a lost magical art--to help her locate her lost family and survive.

"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...

"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"-- Provided by publisher.

"Do you believe in magic? Mia and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures awaits. Mia and her star animal, a fox named Bracken, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. Mia's older sister has started acting strangely and the Star Animals sense dark magic at work. Can the girls use their newfound Star Magic to help make things right?"-- Provided by publisher.