blessing and cursing

Spring break turns into a mountain climbing trip for a girl trying to connect to her distant father. One problem: her dad has picked a cursed mountain, and they might not make it to the summit.

A legendary entrance to the caverns is rumored to be where star-crossed lovers met a bad end. The relationship of anyone who goes there is supposedly cursed. It sounds like fiction, but is it?.

Nadia must stop the evil sorceress Elizabeth before she lures the One Beneath to Captive's Sound, destroying the town and everyone Nadia holds dear at the same time.

When Mr. Blood enters a witch's tomb he triggers a curse which only his young assistants, Edgar and Mary, can break.

Can an object really be cursed to give someone bad luck? There's only one way to find out...

Trolls are said to love gold. They are said to live underground and hate humans, perhaps even eat them. They are said to be evil. When C?cile de Troyes is kidnapped and sold to the trolls, she finds out that there is truth in the rumors, but there is also so much more to trolls than she could have imagined. C?cile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus, the city she hadn't even known existed under Forsaken Mountain: escape. But the trolls are inhumanly strong. And fast. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity. But something strange happens while she's waiting--she begins to fall in love with the handsome, thoughtful troll prince that she has been bonded and married to. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods--part troll/part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.

Alyssa Gardner is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Alice Liddle, the famous Alice of Mr. Lewis Carroll's best-selling book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Alyssa seems to have inherited a bit of the family weird, being able to hear the thoughts of animals and plants. Her mother could, too, and got put in an institute. So Alyssa is making sure to keep her delusions secret--until she finds that Wonderland is a real place, and it is in need of a little girl to come and set it right again.

A descendant of the inspiration for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.

"It's been raining non-stop for six whole days. Someone has cursed the Kingdom of Wrenly. Can Lucas and Clara figure out who's behind the evil spell and stop the villain before it's too late?"--.

Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.