Memorial Hall Library

Something Witchy This Way Comes

Whether you're looking for some Halloween scares or an empowered woman role model, these witchy reads for teens and adults might just put a spell on you.

Undead girl gang
Undead girl gang
by Lily Anderson

While investigating the supposed suicides of her best friend, Riley, and mean girls June and Dayton, sixteen-year-old Wiccan Mila Flores accidentally brings them back to life.
The girl who drank the moon
The girl who drank the moon
by Kelly Regan Barnhill

Luna, whose magical abilities are emerging, was raised in the forest by a witch, a swamp monster, and a dragon, but when a young man from the Protectorate is determined to kill the witch, Luna must use her magic to protect her family.
We ride upon sticks
We ride upon sticks
by Quan Barry

Nearly three centuries after their coastal community’s witch trials, the women athletes of the 1989 Danvers Falcons hockey team combine individual and collective talents with 1980s iconography to storm their way to the state finals.
The bone witch
The bone witch
by Rin Chupeco

Discovering her power for necromancy after accidentally resurrecting her brother from the dead, Tea is ostracized by her community and offered guidance by a wise bone witch who helps her pursue training as a wielder of elemental magic. By the author of The Girl From the Well.
The black god's drums
The black god's drums
by P. Djèlí Clark

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart--Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities ...
Labyrinth lost
Labyrinth lost
by Zoraida Córdova

Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race, in a new edition of the classic novel, featuring a new afterword from the authors.
A Witchly Influence
A Witchly Influence
by Stephanie Grey

A newly divorced witch is determined to turn her life around. Carmen Devereaux, who has powers that allow her to conjure anything she desires from thin air and teleport anywhere in the world, moves back home to North Carolina for a fresh start closer to her mortal step family. Carmen receives a promotion to Influencer from her employer Fate. In her new position as Influencer she will use her magic to guide both witches and mortals to their higher calling. With the help of some eccentric characters she attempts to balance her magical and mortal responsibilities.
A discovery of witches
A discovery of witches
by Deborah E. Harkness

Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford’s library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches and vampires whose activities center around an enchanted treasure.
The once and future witches
The once and future witches
by Alix E. Harrow

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
Magic lessons : The Prequel to Practical Magic
Magic lessons : The Prequel to Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman

A prequel to the movie-inspiring novel unveils the origin story of Maria Owens, who after being discovered as an abandoned baby in rural 17th-century Salem is taught in the “Unnamed Arts” before cursing her own family in love.
Hocus pocus & the all-new sequel
Hocus pocus & the all-new sequel
by A. W Jantha

After accidentally bringing the Sanderson Sisters back from the dead, Max, Dani, and Allison race to stop their plans to torment Salem for all of eternity; then twenty-five years later it is up to Max and Allison's daughter to stop the Sanderson's newest scheme.
Snapdragon
Snapdragon
by Kat Leyh

Befriending an eccentric but savvy older woman who suggests that they help each other while raising a litter of orphaned baby opossums, a young girl discovers that the woman may possess real magic and a possible connection to her family. 
The witches of New York
The witches of New York
by Ami McKay

A tale inspired by Manhattan's 19th-century witchcraft revival finds a celebrated teahouse proprietress and a gifted medium teaming up with a dream interpreter in the aftermath of a psychic colleague's disappearance. 
Circe
Circe
by Madeline Miller

A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 
Akata witch
Akata witch
by Nnedi Okorafor

Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
The witch boy
The witch boy
by Molly Ostertag

When a boy goes missing during a night of shapeshifting, thirteen-year-old Astor risks going against family tradition by using his magic to help locate him.
These witches don't burn
These witches don't burn
by Isabel Sterling

Possessing secret elemental magic that allows her to control fire, earth, water and air, a Salem, Massachusetts teen witch is forced to team up with her ex-girlfriend to counter a deadly outbreak of dark magic. A first novel. 
Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft
Toil & trouble : 15 tales of women & witchcraft
by Jessica Spotswood

A collection of fifteen stories involving female witches features contributions by Brenna Yovanoff, Andrea Cremer, and Brandy Colbert.
Creatures of charm and hunger
Creatures of charm and hunger
by Molly Tanzer

The third standalone novel set in Molly Tanzer's magic-infused universe takes readers to World War II-era England where two young women are studying witchcraft. Though once inseparable, competition, secrets, and wildly dangerous magic set them at odds and draw them to terrifying ends.
Cemetery boys
Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas

Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death. 
The babysitters coven
The babysitters coven
by Kate Williams

After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
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