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Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this story loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
5) Soulbound
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kaya, a Healer who wants to learn to fight, must attend Shadow Academy where fighting by Healers is outlawed, and so she asks two young men to train her in secret, leading to a choice that wil change their lives forever.
6) Flamecaster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thrown together by chance and united by their hatred of the king, Ash, a gifted healer, and Jenna, a girl abandoned at birth, find themselves on the run from the King's Guard.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Nathan, a young Navajo boy from Phoenix, Arizona, goes on an epic hero's journey."--Kirkusreviews.com
"When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in...
9) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When long-dead magical creatures are discovered all around the world, each with a buried book of magic, the governments of the world want to unlock the power the books, but need the help of kids to harness the magical power"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Young Agawin, apprentice to the healer Yolen, finds that his life is linked to that of the last of the dragons of the Wearle of Hautuuslanden, Galen, and he must journey far in time and space to protect the future of dragon-kind.
12) Ivy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young girl helps her grandmother care for magical creatures.
13) Echo Mountain
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
14) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves"--
Yejide and Akin fell in love and married while at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide agreed polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-- after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures-- Yejide is still...
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
1886. Jesse Montgomery is feeling restless. Though he's grateful to friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again, surely the Lord doesn't want this reformed rowdy cowboy to stay in Apple Grove forever. When an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, Jesse intervenes and is wounded. Lovely young healer Katie Miller attends to him while guarding her heart. This sweet Amish widow can't risk falling in love with an Englisch...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 1870s doesn't approve of such innovations as women attending medical school. To leave grief and guilt behind, as well as support herself and her challenging young son, Jennie cares for an elderly woman using skills she's developed on her own. When her patient dies, Jennie discovers that her heart has become...
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cossette Consistently Brings the Old Testament to Life in an Engrossing, Fresh New Way Alanah, a Canaanite, is no stranger to fighting and survival. When her family is killed in battle with the Hebrews, she disguises herself and sneaks onto the battlefield to avenge her family. The one thing she never counted on was surviving. Tobiah, a Hebrew warrior, is shocked to find an unconscious, wounded woman among the Canaanite casualties. Compelled to bring...
Author
Series
African adventures volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A Cowboy at Heart, an engaging Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith, weaves a clever and romantic tale of new starts and second chances.1886--Jesse Montgomery is beginning to feel restless. Though he's grateful to his friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again after a few bad choices and some hard living, surely the Lord doesn't want him to stay in Apple Grove forever. Doesn't...