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Author
Language
English
Description
"Journey now to Tuscon, Arizona, and into the Superstition Mountains of 1866, where a chance for escape takes two unlikely allies on a romantic adventure along a desert trail. Since orphaned at age twelve, Carmela Wade has lived a lie orchestrated by her uncle, pretending to be a survivor of an Indian kidnapping and profiting from telling her made-up story on the speaker circuit. But as she matures into adulthood, Carmela hates the lies and longs...
Author
Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Upon superstitious headmaster Mordred's orders, the returning students and new lasses of Dragon Slayers' Academy deck themselves in lucky charms on Friday the thirteenth, but luck may not help when a wicked dragon arrives seeking revenge.
7) Pretty omens
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Cass Anne Marie, born during a nasty winter on Crowley's Ridge and loved back to life by her mama, is shunned by the mining community because of her gift of omens. And yet this gift might prove to be their salvation. A novel-in-verse.
10) Melmoth
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
12) Locker 13
Author
Series
Nightmare room volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Luke Greene, a superstitious seventh-grader, arrives for the first day of school, he is terrified when he discovers that he has been assigned to locker number 13.
14) Lucky socks
Author
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.
Author
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Gideon Hawk hunts the depraved outlaw Pima Miller into the Superstition Mountains of Arizona Territory. Hawk inadvertently shot Miller's woman, but the killer doesn't seem to mind. He leaves his infant son behind and heads into the mountains with his beautiful young guide, Jodi Zimmerman, who he's kidnapped from the Superstition Stage Relay Station. Hawk, however, minds very much that his bullet meant for Miller struck an innocent woman. He storms...
Author
Series
Superstition Mountain volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Returning to Superstition Mountain, the Barker brothers, along with their friend Delilah, soon find themselves entangled in more danger and mystery as they uncover a treasure.
Author
Series
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 30
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
The Brain does not believe in superstition, but when he tries to prove that superstitions are nonsense he starts finding bad luck everywhere he turns.
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.
Publisher
Doppelganger Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young fifteenth-century goatherd slowly begins to discover an ancient presence deep in the dark woods years after her mother's horrifying demise. In a time when pagan beliefs or witches spread fear into the minds of rural folk, the film aims to explore the thin line between ancient beliefs, magic, and delusional psychosis.