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Ethan Wate has lived in Gatlin, SC his entire life. He cannot wait until he graduates high school and can escape the small, southern town. Everything changes when a new girl arrives at school, Lena Duchannes. Ethan and Lena discover they can share dreams and communicate telepathically (Kelting). Lena comes from a long line of Casters and has inherited a curse which began with her family during the Civil War. On her sixteenth birthday, Lena will be claimed as either a Light Caster or a Dark Caster. While trying to unravel the riddles that surround the curse, and his role, Ethan learns that Gatlin, is not the small, simple town he thought it was. Gatlin is full of mysteries, secrets, dangers and magic that threatens the lives of the people he loves. Lexile 670 Series Website
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Old Gregory's time as the county Spook is coming to an end. Who will take his place? Twenty-nine apprentices tried and failed. Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, is chosen to be the Spook's next apprentice. Tom begins his training to keep the living safe from ghosts, ghasts, boggarts and witches. But Mother Malkin, an evil witch, escapes her prison while the Spook is away. Can Tom succeed where other apprentices failed and fight the evil witch? The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch Book Trailer Author Website Lexile 790 Book #2 in the Caster Chronicles series
Lena and Ethan suffered a tragic loss. In her guilt and fear that she may be turning dark, Lena begins to pull away from Ethan. She stops talking to him, she stops Kelting (speaking telepathically) with him, and she stops writing in her notebook. Meanwhile, Ethan is dealing with his own problems. He's having terrifying visions and dreams about Abraham Ravenwood. While unraveling the mysteries and secrets of the curse on the family that began during the Civil War, Ethan begins to discover secrets about his mother and his own role in the order of things. To save Lena from herself, and her evil mother, Ethan, Link, and Liv (Marian's Keeper-In-Training) must find Lena when she disappears with Ridley and a mysterious stranger, John Breed. Trailer Authors' Website "Ryan has to keep writing, no matter how much it hurts. He has to explain what happened that night."
Ryan is trying to remember what happened that night. He is secretly writing the full story in a journal. He's forbidden, since the accident, to see his best friend, Sarah. While Ryan is isolated and laboring to write the story in his journal, Sarah continues to investigate the mystery surrounding Skeleton Creek with her video camera. She secretly sends password-protected links to the videos to Ryan through email. "Do I wish we hadn’t gone into the woods? Do I wish Sarah hadn’t shot the video, as if that might have kept everything from happening? Sure. But that didn’t change anything. We kept working to find out the secret of Skeleton Creek’s name. And we ignored all the danger signs. We went too far, we asked too many questions. And we found out things that we’d never wanted to learn." Here is the super-cool part about this series! The reader can view Sarah's videos through a link and password provided in the story. This unique combination of reading and watching aids in drawing readers into the story. Read more here about Sarah's videos and how to access them (About Sarah's videos). Skeleton Creek Scholastic Book Trailer Skeleton Creek Website Other books in this series: Ghost in the Machine, The Crossbones, The Raven Reading level: 4.8 |