| The Lost Years of Merlin |
T.A. Barron |
YA/YA PPB BARRON |
| Emrys doesn't know who he is or where he came from, but he's sure his name isn't really Emrys. He's sure that Branwyn, who says she is his mother, isn't really his mother. And he's sure he needs to learn who he is and how to handle the mysterious powers he seems to have. To do that, he must leave his home and therefore begin a series of adventures. (There are five books in this series.) |
| Tithe |
Holly Black |
TEEN PPB BLACK |
| Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. Companion novel: Valiant |
| The Named |
Marianne Curley |
TEEN CURLEY |
| As the only defense against the evil Order of Chaos, the Named travel through time to prevent the Order from altering history and thereby gaining power in the present and the future. Ethan has been Named since he was four. Now he's sixteen and in charge of training the latest to be Named, who is also the sister of his former best friend. But there isn't much time for training, because the evil that has shadowed Ethan's life for twelve years is getting ready to strike again. Sequels: The Dark and The Key |
| The Ropemaker |
Peter Dickinson |
TEEN DICKINSON |
| When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells. |
| The Sea of Trolls |
Nancy Farmer |
TEEN FARMER |
| After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. (Nutmeg 2007 Nominee, grades 7 & 8. Sequel: The Land of the Silver Apples) |
| Stravaganza: City of Masks |
Mary Hoffman |
TEEN HOFFMAN |
| While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city. Lucien learns that he is a Stravagante, capable of travelling between two worlds. But as his body begins to follow his mind to this other world, there is always the chance that he may be caught on the other side of time, unable to return. Sequel: Stravaganza: City of Stars and Stravaganza: City of Flowers. |
| Joust |
Mercedes Lackey |
TEEN PPB LACKEY |
| Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people. Sequels: Alta and Sanctuary. (Lackey writes a wide range of fantasy novel types. Her Valdemar novels are also particularly good.) |
| Skulduggery Pleasant |
Derek Landy |
(J/)TEEN LANDY |
| When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. |
| Wolf Tower |
Tanith Lee |
TEEN LEE |
| When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste. (First in a series.) |
| Merchant of Death |
D.J. MacHale |
TEEN PPB MacHALE |
| Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. ...Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution. (First in a series.) |
| Wicked Lovely |
Melissa Marr |
TEEN MARR |
| Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance. |
| Wind Singer |
William Nicholson |
TEEN NICHOLSON |
| After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people. Sequels: Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong |
| Lirael |
Garth Nix |
TEEN/TEEN PPB NIX |
| When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies. (Sequel: Abhorsen. Prequel: Sabriel) |
| Mister Monday |
Garth Nix |
TEEN PPB NIX |
| Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped like the minute hand of a clock.A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key back. Arthur goes to a mysterious house that only he can see, so that he can learn the truth about himself and the key. (First in a series.) |
| Airborn |
Kenneth Oppel |
J/TEEN OPPEL |
| Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. In the process, their ship is destroyed by air pirates and they're forced to land on an uncharted island whose inhabitants only add to the dangers they already face. Sequel: Skybreaker |
| Eragon |
Christopher Paolini |
TEEN PAOLINI |
| In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. (The author wrote this novel when he was fifteen.) Sequel: Eldest |
| Terrier |
Tamora Pierce |
TEEN PIERCE |
| In this fantasy/myster, when sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City. |
| The Golden Compass |
Philip Pullman |
YA PULLMAN |
| Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. (Sequels: The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.) |
| The Lightning Thief |
Rick Riordan |
TEEN RIORDAN |
| Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's been kicked out a half a dozen schools for being a troublemaker. Imagine his shock when he learns he's not a bad kid after all. He's a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. Unfortunately, the gods (the big-time ones, like Zeus) have it in for him, since they think he's a troublemaker too, and they (badly!) want something back that they think he stole. Let the chase begin! (First in a proposed series.) |
| The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel |
Michael Dylan Scott |
TEEN SCOTT |
| While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. (First in a series.) |
| The Amulet of Samarkand |
Jonathan Stroud |
TEEN STROUD |
| Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. Bartimaeus is snarky and funny, and not exactly a fan of helping humans. (Sequels: Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate) |
| Poison |
Chris Wooding |
TEEN WOODING |
| When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny. |
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