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INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY SERIES
by Piers Anthony
As the Incarnation of Death, Zane must end the lives of others but then he finds himself being drawn into an evil plot to destroy Luna, the woman he loves.

ABARAT & DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR
by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.

THE GREAT TREE OF AVALON SERIES
by T.A. Barron
In accordance with prophecy, Avalon's existence is threatened in the year that stars stop shining and at the time when both the dark child and Merlin's heir are to be revealed.

LOST YEARS OF MERLIN SERIES
by T.A. Barron
A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

THE LOOKING GLASS WARS SERIES
by Frank Beddor
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.

TITHE: A MODERN FAERIE TALE
by Holly 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.

BASILISK
by N.M. Browne
Two teens who discover they are sharing the same dream of dragons fight to stop the evil dictator from bringing their dreams to life in the form of a terrible basilisk with the power to literally scare people to death.

THE PROPHECY OF THE STONES
by Flavia Bujor
Three girls are drawn to a land called Fairytale, where they and a man called the Chosen One seek Oonagh, a magical creature who explains their role in a battle between Good and Evil.

WAR FOR THE OAKS
by Emma Bull
An aspiring young rock-and-roll singer's life is astonishingly changed when she is drafted into the war of the faeries, where she is instructed to use her musical talents to defeat an evil enemy.

A CURSE DARK AS GOLD
by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

THE WIZARD'S TALE
by Kurt Busiek and David Wenzel
Bafflerog Rumplewhisker is charged with maintaining the darkness spells that keep the once lush land of Ever-Night subjugated to the forces of evil. It's his job to find the long-lost Book Of Worse and ensure the triumph of evil forever.

GLASS HOUSES
by Rachel Caine
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

TALES OF ALVIN MAKER SERIES
by Orson Scott Card
Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin Maker is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely but dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.

DRAGON'S KEEP
by Janet Lee Carey
Fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.

ARTEMIS FOWL SERIES
by Eoin Colfer
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology and a particularly nasty troll.

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THE SUPERNATURALIST
by Eoin Colfer
In futuristic Satellite City, Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures. Together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites.

THE DARK IS RISING SEQUENCE
by Susan Cooper
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of Dark.

JACK OF KINROWAN
by Charles de Lint
A faceless biker gang on a wild hunt hurtles young Jacky Rowan into the perilous land of Faerie, where she finds herself hailed as the once-and-future trickster hero, the Jack of Kinrowan.

YOUNG WIZARDS SERIES
by Diane Duane
Two young wizards embark on a mission to preserve the universe they encounter in an eerie version of Manhattan.

BELGARIAD SERIES
by David Eddings
Garion the farm boy did not believe in magic dooms, but then he did not know that soon he would be on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger when the evil God Torak was reawakened.

STONEHEART
by Charlie Fletcher
When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.

STARDUST
by Neil Gaiman
The tale of Tristran's quest for a fallen star, his crossing into a world beyond the wall, and the discovery of his faerie bloodline.

THE PRINCESS AND THE HOUND
by Mette Ivie Harrison
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.

EYE OF THE WORLD SERIES
by Robert Jordan
During the Third Age, the Age of Prophecy, the world and time hang in the balance, in peril of falling under the Shadow.

THEODOSIA AND THE SERPENTS OF CHAOS
by R. L. LaFevers
Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.

EARTHSEA SERIES
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

PENDRAGON SERIES
by D. J. 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.

WHAT-THE-DICKENS: THE STORY OF A ROGUE TOOTH FAIRY
by Gregory Maguire
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.

THE BLUE SWORD & THE HERO AND THE CROWN
by Robin McKinley
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

DARK REFLECTIONS SERIES
by Kai Meyer
In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively.

THE SQUIRE'S TALE & THE SQUIRE, HIS NIGHT AND HIS LADY
by Gerald Morris
In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and revealing an important secret about his own true identity.

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SABRIEL
by Garth Nix
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

THE TWELVE KINGDOMS VOLUME 1: SEA OF SHADOW
by Fuyumi Ono
Except for her red hair, Yoko Nakajima is a typical, obedient Japanese high school student. Her life is fairly ordinary–that is, until Keiki, a unicorn in the guise of a young blond-haired boy, tells her that she is his master and must return to their kingdom.

AIRBORN
by Kenneth 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.

ERAGON SERIES
by Christopher 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.

SONG OF THE LIONESS SERIES
by Tamora Pierce
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

TRICKSTER'S QUEEN
by Tamora Pierce
Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated.

ALOSHA
by Christopher Pike
Thirteen-year-old Ali Warner discovers that she has been chosen to stop the elementals— mysterious beings from a neighboring dimension— from invading the Earth.

A HAT FULL OF SKY
by Terry Pratchett
Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.

HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY
by Philip 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.

THE THIEF
by Megan Whalen Turner
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

FLORA SEGUNDA
by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical–and long-banished–butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will.

DRAGON'S BLOOD
by Jane Yolen
Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.

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