The Dark Mirror by M.J. Putney

Title: The Dark Mirror
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Plot: Girl with powers sent away to ‘fix’. She doesn’t need fixing.
Distributor: St. Martin’s Griffin
Length: 320 Pages
Rating: G
Author: M.J. Putney
Starring: Tory Mansfield, youngest daughter of an earl and a witch.
Theme: Sometimes when you lose everything, you gain what you really need.
Comments: Tory is a witch and no one in the gentry can abide witches. Her embarrassed family sends her off to a school to be fixed. Instead, she finds other magical people who becomes her good friends (and by the way, she is the best witch of all) and they start using their magic to help the right side of wars (both their present day and the 1940’s).

Vanished by Kristi Holl

Title: Vanished
Genre: Young Adult
Plot: Girls go missing at a boarding school and one student solves the crime
Distributor: Zonderkidz
Length: Short
Rating: G
Author: Kristi Holl
Starring: Jeri and her friends
Theme: Girl detective
Comments: This was a free download from Kindle. When I saw it was YA, I almost didn’t click on it, but I actually like YA and haven’t read any for awhile. I think if an 8 – 12 year old read this, they’d like it.