Elementary

A Knot Is Not A Tangle

by Daniel Nayeri, ill. by Vesper Stamper

RL 2.0 IL K-3

One morning, a young boy is woken up early by his grandmother. It’s time to make a new rug for the family. Together, they wash and dye the wool. When it’s time to knot the threads, the young boy grows nervous. He wants to make it perfect. But why aren’t the colors right? And why can’t he weave as swiftly as his grandmother? 

Middle

Down Came The Spiders

by Ally Russell

RL 5.6 IL 4-7

Twelve-year-old Andi loves everything about spiders. They're endlessly fascinating creatures. So when she finds a species she's never seen before at a classmate's Halloween party, she's over the moon. Until the spiders start to behave in unusual and threatening ways, that is. 

High School

The House Saphir

by Marissa Meyer

RL 6.0 IL 9-12

Mallory Fontaine is a would-be witch with one inconvenient gift: she can see ghosts. She and her sisters survive by selling fake spells and giving tours of the mansion where Count Bastien Saphir—infamous wife-murderer known as Monsieur Le Bleu—once lived.

When Bastien’s heir offers Mallory a fortune to banish Le Bleu’s ghost, she jumps at the chance. A paid stay at a country estate sounds perfect—until a new murder occurs and Mallory becomes the prime suspect. Certain the killer is human, she must solve the crime, banish a ghost, and keep up her witchy charade—all while falling for the man who might be the murderer.