The Eccentric Bookshelf

Tag: Fantasy

  • The Secret of Lillian Velvet by Jaclyn Moriarty

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    The Secret of Lillian Velvet is an absolutely mind-blowing and amazing novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. This book is about (obviously)Lillian Velvet. Lillian Velvet is a very lonely child for a number of reasons: the only person she’s lived with in years is her strict, cranky, mean, grandmother, she is homeschooled and her grandmother won’t let…

  • A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig

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    A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig is a story that will heal and break your heart in one chapter. It will give you hope only for it to be lost on the next page. This is a story about a poor little boy named Nikolas. Nikolas doesn’t have much in his life, his only…

  • The Key to the Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

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    Emma Pearl Casey has lived at her family’s cemetery in the magically haunted town of Blackbird Hollow her entire life. However, when money starts to run short and her grandma can’t afford to keep the cemetery running, she’s forced to sell it off to Warren Steele, a shady businessman in the local area. However, Emma…

  • The Takeout by Tracy Badua

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    “The Takeout” by Tracy Badua is a remarkable novel about cooking with a little drop of magic mixed in. A new restaurant down the road has just been opened by the celebrity cooking brothers, the Darlington’s, and everyone in the town of Coral Beach hopes that this shop might be able to revive their dying…

  • The Apprentice Witch by James Nicol

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    The Apprentice Witch by James Nicol is an enchanting novel about an apprentice witch named Arianwyn. Arianwyn is an apprentice witch living in the town of Lull, a place she has gotten used to over the couple of months she’s been there. However, how she got there is a long story. Before every witch is…

  • The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski

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    The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski is a stunning novel about a twelve-year-old girl called Flick Hudson. When Flick moves into a new town in the countryside, she finds a small store, called The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, filled with suitcases; suitcases filled with things called “schisms”, portals to another world. The store manager, a…

  • The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson

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    The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson is an extraordinarily unique novel about a girl named Lydia. Ever since her parents’ sudden disappearance, Lydia has been living with her Uncle Lem in the Paper Museum. Lydia lives in a world where paper is a rarity and most people use “Aer Readers”, a phone that you…

  • Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

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    Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley is a flurry of emotions packed into absolutely beautiful writing about a boy named Micah Tuttle. Micah’s grandfather, Ephraim Tuttle, is gravely ill, and he has been for some time now. However, Micah’s grandpa has always told him stories about a magical place called Circus Mirandus, where magic is everywhere,…

  • Twinchantment by Elise Allen

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    Twinchantment by Elise Allen is a wondrously enchanting novel about two twins named Sara and Flissa. However, ever since the dark magic uprising years ago where all the king’s family was killed, all magic and any signs of magic have been banned. These include left-handedness, black cats, and of course, twinhood. Sara and Flissa are…

  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

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    Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer is a wonderfully suspenseful novel about a young genius named Artemis Fowl. The Fowls have built up their fortune from the past generations from robbing, and when Artemis’s dad decides to invest in a legitimate shipping company, he is presumed to have been killed by the Russian Mafia, so when…