Have you ever imagined about controlling demons? Have you wondered what they are thinking? Now you don’t have to. When Nathaniel was only six years old, his parents sold him to an orphanage where he would stay until a magician came to pick him up. This was all based on the fact that someone...
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”I volunteer! “ I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute.” Seventeen year old Katniss Everdeen lives in District Twelve with her younger sister, Primrose, and her widowed mother. What used to be North America, is now the country of Paneam. Each year the Capitol holds the ‘Hunger Games’ , a test of survival. Two tributes...
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“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!” A sentence everyone in the 12 districts across North America dreads. It’s a horrid annual event invented by the Capitol to show how the Capitol is superior to the 12 districts. Two tributes, a girl and a boy between the ages of...
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When Nathaniel, a young English boy, is given up by his parents to become a magician, he has no idea of how dangerous his new life is going to be. Nathaniel has been apprenticed to Underwood, one of the weakest magicians and head of an unimportant office in the government. Nathaniel turns out be...
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Zombies, running amuck, killing everything in their path, are near your home. A unicorn baby, who is cute but deadly, is trusted to your care after the mother’s final breath. In Zombies VS Unicorns, a collection of short stories, these are typical obstacles that the protagonists run in to. Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier...
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Jane and Allison were the best of friends. That is until a horribly embarrassing accident that ruins Allison’s reputation. Jane tries to comfort her, but Allison seemed to be in a deep funk. Suddenly, Lanalee comes into the picture. She helps get Allison out of her depression and back on her feet, but there’s...
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The small southern town of Gatlin, South Carolina, was like any other old town, or as close as Gatlin could get. You see, Gatlin has roots spreading all the way back during the Civil War or as most people of Gatlin like to call it, the War Between the States, but that is only...
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“They are coming after me, understand? I don’t know how they found me after all these years, but they did. Find the bird in the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave. September third, 1940. There you will be safe.” This was the very last thing that Jacob Portman, a 16-year-old...
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“…I realize- life can always get worse.” Poor Grubitsch Grady, or rather Grubbs as everyone called him, had no idea how unfortunately true his statement would become. After an embarrassing day at school, witch involved his mother yelling and his father uncharacteristically losing his temper, he decided to take vengeance on his sister by...
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“Ignoring all the laws of magic Alanna had been taught, the picture grew and spread. It was a city made of all black, shiny stone. Alanna leaned forward, squinting to see it better. She had never seen anything like this city. The sun beat down on gleaming walls and towers. Alanna was afraid—more afraid...
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