witches

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The burning times

a novel of Medieval France
2001
Mother Marie Francoise, targeted by the Inquisition for practicing magic and communing with the devil, is urged to confess her sins to Michel, a Dominican scribe who is compelled to prove Marie innocent even after she reveals the truth about her pagan ways.

Spelling trouble

Salem Hyde is a young witch in training, who often gets more in trouble than completes her witch studies. To help her stay on task, her witch parents get her an animal companion, a familiar, the cat Percival J. Whamsford III. At a school spelling bee, Salem tries to use spells to help with her spelling, and everything goes wrong.

The princess and the tower

2006
A reader of fairy tales, a young princess longs for the day when a prince will save her from a dragon or witch, but when she finally is chased and locked in a tower she decides to take matters into her own hands.

A is for apple, W is for witch

1996
Ten-year-old Apple, who can't wait to be a witch like her mother, tries to use a spell to teach pesky Barnaby a lesson and gets into serious trouble.

The alphabet soup

1992
When he follows the witch twins Gurgla and Blog home from school, Zack almost becomes the final ingredient in their alphabet soup.

Zena and the witch circus

1990
A magically untalented witch is barred from performing in the Witch Circus until one day when she becomes a hero.

Philomene

1992
Plucky Philomene turns the tables on a nasty witch by befriending her pet monster.

Hero's guide to: Saving your kingdom

2013
Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav, all former princes who had been rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, encounter trolls, witches, and dragons during their quest to become heroes.

Spellbound

2011
Sixteen-year-old Emma Conner moves to New York to live with her aunt after her stepfather nearly kills her while driving drunk, and starts school at the exclusive Vincent Academy where she is immediately attracted to bad boy Brendan, but a series of disturbing dreams and Brendan's odd behavior make her wonder if she has chosen the right boy.

Wicked 2

2009
Contains "Legacy" in which Holly Cathers and her twin cousins are late descendants of the medieval witches of the House of Cahors and must use their powers to save their parents from an ancient danger; and "Spellbound" in which the Tri-Coven is in disarray after months of battles and betrayals, but when a new warlock arrives in Seattle, he may have the power to turn the coven in a new direction, even if it means sacrificing one of its members.

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