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Tiger Lily
Jodi Lynn Anderson (YA Anderson)
Tiger Lily meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, in the forbidden woods of Neverland and immediately falls under his spell. A magical romance (Grades 8+) |
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Shadow and Bone [Trilogy]
Leigh Bardugo (YA BARDUGO)
Grisha Trilogy. Alina’s newfound magical powers have the potential to put an end to the shadow fold—a wall of impenetrable darkness populated by flesh-eating creatures that terrorize her world. (Grades 8+) |
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The Looking Glass Wars [Trilogy]
Frank Beddor (YA BEDDOR)
Wonderland has been seized by an evil king, but Alyss happens to be well-armed with guns, robots, and more! (Grades 6-8) |
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Soulbound [Series]
Heather Brewer (YA BREWER)
Legacy of Tril Series. Tril is a world where Barrons fight and Healers cure their Barrons' wounds in the ongoing war with the evil Graplar King. Seventeen-year-old Kaya was born a Healer, but she wants to fight, so must learn in secret. (Grades 8+) |
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns [Trilogy]
Rae Carson (YA CARSON)
Forced into an arranged marriage with a foreign king, a young princess must come to grips with her destiny. (Grades 8+) |
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Graceling [Series]
Kristin Cashore (YA CASHORE)
Katsa’s extraordinary Grace? Killing. The King’s new problem? She’s not going to let him use her as a hired thug anymore. (Grades 8+) |
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Elphame’s Choice [Has a Sequel]
P.C. Cast (YA CAST)
Brighid is the first centaur in ages fated to be a magic user. Now she’s got powers she never asked for, and the responsibility to fight off demons! (Grades 9+) |
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The Warrior Heir [Trilogy]
Cinda Williams Chima (YA CHIMA)
Heir Trilogy. It’s simply called ‘The Game’—two houses determine supremacy by entering a warrior to fight to the death. Jack’s next. (Grades 6-8) |
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Clockwork Angel [Series]
Cassandra Clare (YA CLARE)
Victorian London has a “downside,” complete with magic users and vampires! Be sure to read the “Mortal Instruments” series, too! (Grades 9+) |
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The Girl in the Steel Corset [Series]
Kady Cross (YA Cross)
Steampunk Chronicles Series. Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins an army of
misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal
behind a series of automaton crimes. (Grades 10+) |
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Revenge of the Witch [Series]
Joseph Delaney (YA DELANEY)
The Last Apprentice Series. Thomas Ward is a Spook’s apprentice, facing down witches,
boggarts, and other creatures that tend to hang around graveyards. (Grades 7-9) |
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The Sea of Trolls [Trilogy]
Nancy Farmer (YA FARMER)
If Jack’s sister had just stayed quiet, they wouldn’t have been captured by Vikings! (Grades 6-9) |
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Incarceron [Has a Sequel]
Catherine Fisher (YA FISHER)
Flinn has lived his entire life inside the gigantic prison known as ‘Incarceron.’ Escape seems
impossible...until he meets Claudia, who is trapped 17th century. (Grades 8+) |
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The Ruins of Gorlan [Series]
John Flanagan (YA FLANGAN)
Ranger’s Apprentice Series. In a world of magic, there’s only one way to start an adventure—as a Ranger’s apprentice. (Grades 6-8) |
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Stardust
Neil Gaiman (YA GAIMAN)
When you wish upon a star...you could end up in an alternate world! (Grades 9+) |
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Seraphina
Rachel Hartman (YA HARTMAN)
Seraphina Dombegh, an unusually gifted musician, joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered. She is drawn into the investigation with the captain of the Queen's Guard. (Grades 7+) |
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Switched [Trilogy]
Amanda Hocking (YA Hocking)
Trylle Trilogy. Amanda Hocking’s bestselling young adult series that takes readers to Trylle, a world as beautiful as it is deadly. (Grades 8+) |
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Tiger’s Curse [Series]
Colleen Houck (YA HOUCK)
Kelsey has to travel across the world to break an ancient Indian curse...with a white Bengal tiger. (Grades 7+) |
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci [Series]
Diana Wynne Jones (YA JONES)
Twelve worlds that need to be monitored for magical abuses is a tall order for anyone to fill! (Grades 7+) |
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Howl’s Moving Castle [Trilogy]
Diana Wynne Jones (YA JONES)
Talk about bad days! Turned into an old woman AND trapped in the dreaded wizard’s castle! (Grades 6+) |
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The Iron King [Series]
Julie Kagawa (YA KAGAWA)
Iron Fey Series. Her younger brother’s been exchanged, and Megan plunges into the dangerous faery world to rescue him. But much more is at stake…. (Grades 8+) |
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Elf Realm [Series]
Daniel Kirk (YA KIRK)
Human progress is thinning the fragile barrier between the world of human and elves, and soon everything will spill over! (Grades 6-8) |
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Grave Mercy [Trilogy]
Robin LaFevers (YA LAFEVERS)
His Fair Assassin Trilogy. When your father is the god of death, being an assassin is your expected profession (Grades 9+) |
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Gifts [Trilogy]
Ursula Le Guin (YA LE GUIN)
Annals of the Western Shore Series. The Uplands clans possess gifts...some wonderful, some
frightening. Now they’ve all got to trust. Each other to use their gifts for good. (Grades 7+) |
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Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas (YA MAAS)
Assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her freedom, but she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. (Grades 8+) |
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Finnikin of the Rock [Has a Sequel]
Melina Marchetta (YA MARCHETTA)
Lumatere Chronicles. One dark day ten years ago, assassins slaughtered the entire royal family of Lumatere. Could Finnikin be the one fated to “take his people home?” (Grades 8+)
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Railsea
China Mieville (YA MIEVILLE)
A novel for readers of all ages, a gripping, brilliantly imagined take on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick—with sandworms instead of a whale! (Grades 8+) |
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Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor (YA OKORAFOR)
Sunny is a Free Agent, descended from the Leopard People, who have magical abilities, and Lambs. Sunny helps stop a serial killer sacrifices children (Grades 6-9) |
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Here, There Be Dragons [Series]
James A. Owen (YA OWEN)
Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica Series. A mysterious book opens into a magical world, where the evil Winter King reigns… (Grades 7+) |
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Terrier [Trilogy]
Tamora Pierce (YA PIERCE)
Beka Cooper Trilogy. Beka's beat as a rookie Provost Guard is a rough one, but talking to the dead relieves some of that work stress. (Grades 7+) |
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The Wee Free Men [Series]
Terry Pratchett (YA PRATCHETT)
They’re blue, they’re Scottish, they’re six inches tall...and they’re young witch Tiffany’s best
hope for rescuing her brother. (Grades 6-9) |
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The Golden Compass [Trilogy]
Philip Pullman (YA PULLMAN)
Daemons, stolen children, Texan balloonists and warrior bears await Lyra on her quest...
(Grades 9+)
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Magyk [Series]
Angie Sage (YA SAGE)
Septimus Heap Series. Septimus is the 7th son of a 7th son, and thus destined to possess magical
powers. But only if his identity remains secret. (Grades 6-8)
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The Alchemist [Series]
Michael Scott (YA SCOTT)
Getting caught in a battle between alchemists over the secret of immortality wasn’t in his
job description. (Grades 6-9) |
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The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater (YA STIEFVATER)
Blue has long been told that she would be the cause of her true love’s death. Now she’s entangled with four mysterious ’raven boys’ and their potentially impossible quest. (Grades 8+) |
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The Amulet of Samarkand [Trilogy]
Jonathan Stroud (YA STROUD)
Bartimeus Trilogy. When young magician Nathaniel summons the ancient , powerful, and mischievous djinni Bartimeus, he gets more than he ever bargained for! (Grades 6-8) |
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Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor (YA TAYLOR)
Three supernatural kisses hold profound power for those who lock lips! (Grades 7+) |
