The Eccentric Bookshelf

Tag: Magic

  • 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 Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

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    The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen is a magical graphic novel about a boy named Tien. Tien’s parents are refugees struggling to learn English and when Tien finds out that he’s gay, he doesn’t know how to come out to his parents in Vietnamese and worries that his parents won’t love him anymore if…

  • 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 Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart

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    Wondrous, glorious, magnificent. Three words that mean the same thing, but would all perfectly describe The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart. The novel is about a boy named Ravani, or Rav, Foster. Rav lives in the small town of Slaughterville, aptly named for its infamous slaughterhouse, the town’s main source of income. Most of the…

  • 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…

  • Miracle Season by Beth Hautala

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    Miracle Season by Beth Hautala is a beautiful, warmhearted novel about a girl named Persephone Pearl Clark who lives in Coulter, Wisconsin. Persephone, just like her name suggests, has the power to make plants grow. However, after her brother, Levi’s, near-death experience that put him in a coma, Persephone has started to lie more and…

  • 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,…

  • Root Magic by Eden Royce

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    Root Magic by Eden Royce is a wonderful novel about a Black girl, Jezebel, and her twin brother, Jay. Jezebel and Jay live in the South in 1963, and things are taking a turn for the worse. Their dearest grandmother has just died, and the police deputy won’t stop tormenting her family. However, as Jezebel…