Sarah Mlynowski
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Nory Horace is nine years old. She's resourceful, she's brave, she likes peanut butter cookies. Also, she's able to transform into many different animals. Unfortunately, Nory's shape-shifting talent is a bit wonky. And when she flunks out of her own father's magic academy, Nory's forced to enter public school, where she meets a group of kids whose magic is, well, different.
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English
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"Nineteen-year-old Sam's summer isn't off to a great start. Her boyfriend, Eli, ditched her for a European backpacking trip and now she's a counselor at Camp Blue Springs: the summer camp her eleven-year-old self swore never to return to. Sam expects the next seven weeks to be a total disaster. That is, until she meets Gavin, the camp's sailing instructor, who turns her expectations upside down. Gavin may have gotten the job just for his abs. Or that...
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tonight the mirror has swept Abby and Jonah into Cinderella's fairy tale. Cinderella broke her foot and there's massive swelling. The glass slipper won't fit, the prince won't know she's the one for him, and they won't live happily ever after. To save the day Jonah and Abby must make sure true love finds its way.
Author
Series
Best wishes volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The magic bracelet comes to a girl in Texas, who ends up in a Groundhog Day-style time loop. Lucy Usathorn of Fort Worth, Texas is super excited for her class trip to the Natural History Museum, where her dad works. Sure, Ms. Brock, the strict school librarian who happens to be dating Lucy’s dad (awkward) is chaperoning, but it’ll still be the best day ever, right? Wrong! Lucy has to watch in shock and humiliation as her dad proposes...
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The enchanting New York Times and USA Today bestselling series continues with installment number 13!The New York Times bestselling series!My brother Jonah's dream has come true. We have FINALLY landed in his favorite fairy tale: Jack and the Beanstalk!It's a lot of fun meeting Jack. But then we accidentally mess up his story, which means Jack can't climb up the magic beanstalk to find the giant's riches. It's...
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Nory, Bax, and their friends are in a special class at Dunwiddle Magic School, a class for children whose magic is unpredictable--and while Nory is finding an outlet for her dritten-self (a combination of a kitten and dragon), in the kittenball team, Baxis worried because all he can do is turn into a rock, and nobody knows why.
7) Showing off
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The Dunwiddle Magic School (fifth to eighth grade) is intended for children whose magic is "upside-down" like Dory (who turns into a combination of a kitten and dragon) and Pepper (whose uncontrollable "fiercing" terrifies everyone around her)--so the Show Off, where fifth grade students are supposed to showcase their skills, does not really seem like a good idea.
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons--unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not long before the trouble starts.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
10) The big shrink
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marigold Ramos thinks that her magical ability to make things small will come in handy as she and her friends protest the new rule banning their toy dragons from school, until her magic gets out of control and starts shrinking her friends.
11) Weather or not
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When Willa's upside-down magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Umbrellas must always be nearby, just in case Willa has an outburst. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. Even worse, the more she rains, the badder she feels . . . and the badder she feels, the more she rains. All the storminess is threatening to drown her good grades and flood all her friendships. Is there any way to use magic to make the...
12) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In their ninth journey through the magic mirror Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Aladdin, and after giving the hero of the story a bloody nose in a game of dodge ball, they take his place with the evil magician looking for the magic lamp--and things continue to go down hill from there.
14) Sugar and spice
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
15) Once upon a frog
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Abby is worried because Jonah has the fairy Maryrose's memories mixed up with his own, but when they try to talk to her they get sucked through the mirror and find themselves in the story of The Frog Prince.
16) Beauty queen
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.
17) Seeing Red
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Abby tries to use the magic mirror to get to her friend's house, but she ends up with her brother in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; where, having accidently knocked out the Huntsman, they set out to save Red (named Lali) and her rather unpleasant grandmother themselves--but end up having to save the wolf (who actually seems a lot nicer then Lali's grandmother), and discovering a surprising secret about their own Nana.
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.
19) Dream on
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this third adventure, Abby, her brother Jonah, and her friend Robin get sucked into the magic mirror and end up in the story of Sleeping Beauty, but when Robin pricks her finger and uses up the sleeping spell, Abby has to come up with a clever solution and a new happily-ever-after.
20) Abby in Oz
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abby, her two friends Robin and Frankie, and the annoying Penny, are in their treehouse arguing about what to do for their special school project when a tornado appears out of nowhere, scoops up the treehouse, and transports them all to the land of Oz, where they are soon confronted by Wicked Witch of the East (who is very much alive, and rather angry), and must save a story that is going completely sideways--all because of the evil Gluck.