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1''Circle of Three'' is a young adult series by Isobel Bird about three teenage girls--Kate, Annie, and Cooper--who come together after Kate finds a book of spells in the school library and casts a love spell that has disastrous results.
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3Fantastical-sounding description aside, the series is actually about the girls' lives as they study {{UsefulNotes/Wicca}}, and presents it all (mostly) realistically.
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5There are 15 books in the series:
6* ''So Mote It Be''
7* ''Merry Meet''
8* ''Second Sight''
9* ''What the Cards Said''
10* ''In the Dreaming''
11* ''Ring of Light''
12* ''Blue Moon''
13* ''The Five Paths''
14* ''Through the Veil''
15* ''Making the Saint''
16* ''The House of Winter''
17* ''Written in the Stars''
18* ''And It Harm None''
19* ''The Challenge Box''
20* ''Initiation''
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23!!This series contains examples of:
24* AlphaBitch: Sherrie.
25* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Many in-universe examples, but mostly in ''The Five Paths''.
26* AuthorTract: The series was written deliberately to show teens how Wicca is actually practiced in real life.
27* CharacterDevelopment: The point of the series, particularly for Kate.
28* DeadpanSnarker
29* FreudianTrio: The main characters- Cooper is the id, Kate the ego and Annie the superego.
30* GirlPosse: The Graces.
31* InfoDrop: The coven that the Crones' Circle store owners belong to goes unnamed until the last book.
32* MagicMisfire: Starts the whole thing off.
33* MagicRealism: Certain aspects of the series, especially the bits dealing with ghosts and spirits, press the belief of even the most devout Wiccan.
34* {{Magick}}
35* MoustacheDePlume: Inverted-- author Isobel Bird is actually Michael Thomas Ford.
36* UsefulNotes/NeoPaganism
37* {{Reincarnation}}: It is strongly implied that Cooper was in a Nazi concentration camp in a past life.

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