THE AMARANTH ENCHANTMENT
by Julie Berry
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.

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.

GLIMMERGLASS
by Jenna Black
Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she's had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in Avalon, everything goes wrong, for it turns out she isn't just an ordinary teenage girl – she's a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds, and the only person who can bring magic into the human world and technologyinto Faerie.

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.

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.

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.

GRACELING
by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

FIRE
by Kristin Cashore
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

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 GRAVEYARD BOOK 
by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

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.

HALF WORLD
by Hiromi Goto
Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie has embarked on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake.

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.

HOW TO DITCH YOUR FAIRY
by Justine Larbalestier
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers–a parking fairy–and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy.

TENDER MORSELS
by Margo Lanagan
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.

WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON
by Grace Lin
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folk tales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man of the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune.

ASH
by Malinda Lo
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

HUNTRESS
by Malinda Lo
Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human 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.

DAUGHTER OF THE FLAMES
by Zoë Marriott
After learning that she is the sole heir to the Ruan throne, orphaned Zira, trained in weaponry and martial arts as a warrior priestess, must unravel the secrets of her identity, decide her people's fate, and accept her feelings for a man who should be her enemy.

THE BLUE SWORD
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.

THE HERO AND THE CROWN
by Robin McKinley
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. Prequel to The Blue Sword.

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.

SILVER PHOENIX: BEYOND THE KINGDOM OF XIA
by Cindy Pon
With a sweeping quest and Chinese-inspired mythology, this fantasy introduces a heroine who sheds the constrictions of her sheltered life, discovers the well of power within herself, and vanquishes an age-old evil.

NATION
by Terry Pratchett
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl and heir to the British throne in this alternative history, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

HEROES OF THE VALLEY
by Jonathan Stroud
When young Halli Sveinsson plays a trick on Ragnor of the House of Hakonsson, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter his destiny, forcing him to leave home and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may finally be his match.

HEIR APPARENT
by Vivian Vande Velde
A young woman gets trapped in a flawed virtual reality game that will kill her if she doesn’t beat it soon.

IMPOSSIBLE
by Nancy Werlin
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

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.

SERIES

ABARAT SERIES
BOOK ONE: ABARAT
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 TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: CHILD OF THE DARK PROPHECY
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
BOOK ONE: THE LOST YEARS OF MERLIN
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
BOOK ONE: THE LOOKING GLASS WARS
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.

GOOD NEIGHBORS TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: KIN
by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see.

MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES SERIES
BOOK ONE: 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.

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS SERIES
BOOK ONE: CITY OF BONES
by Cassandra Clare
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

ARTEMIS FOWL SERIES
BOOK ONE: ARTEMIS FOWL
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.

THE DARK IS RISING SEQUENCE
BOOK ONE: OVER SEA, UNDER STONE
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.

MONSTER BLOOD TATTOO SERIES
BOOK ONE: FOUNDLING
by D.M. Cornish
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.

YOUNG WIZARDS SERIES
BOOK ONE: SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD
by Diane Duane
Two young wizards embark on a mission to preserve the universe they encounter in an eerie version of Manhattan.

BELGARIAD SERIES
BOOK ONE: PAWN OF PROPHECY
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.

INCARCERON SERIES
BOOK ONE: INCARCERON
by Catherine Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

THE RANGER'S APPRENTICE SERIES
BOOK ONE: THE RUINS OF GORLAN
by John Flanagan
Will, a small and lively fifteen-year-old boy living in the land of Araluen, is rejected for training as a warrior-knight. Will is apprenticed instead to the Ranger Corps–a mysterious group who act as the King’s eyes and ears throughout Araluen and beyond its shores.

STONEHEART TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: 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.

THE MAGICIANS SERIES
BOOK ONE: THE MAGICIANS
by Lev Grossman
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.

WHEEL OF TIME SERIES
BOOK ONE: THE EYE OF THE WORLD
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 SERIES
BOOK ONE: 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
BOOK ONE: A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA
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
BOOK ONE: THE MERCHANT OF DEATH
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.

WICKED LOVELY SERIES
BOOK ONE: WICKED LOVELY
by Melissa 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.

DARK REFLECTIONS TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: THE WATER MIRROR
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 TALES SERIES
BOOK ONE: THE SQUIRE'S TALE
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.

ABHORSEN TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: 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 KEYS TO THE KINGDOM SERIES
BOOK ONE: MISTER MONDAY
by Garth 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. The key causes bizarre creatures to come from another realm, bringing with them a plague.

THE TWELVE KINGDOMS SERIES
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 SAGA
BOOK ONE: 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.

THE INHERITANCE CYCLE
BOOK ONE: ERAGON
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
BOOK ONE: ALANNA: THE FIRST ADVENTURE
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.

DAUGHTER OF THE LIONESS SERIES
BOOK ONE: TRICKSTER'S CHOICE
by Tamora Pierce
Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.

THE TIFFANY ACHING ADVENTURES SERIES
BOOK ONE: THE WEE FREE MEN
by Terry Pratchett
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen.

HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY
BOOK ONE: THE GOLDEN COMPASS
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 LORD OF THE RINGS SAGA
BOOK ONE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
THE HOBBIT, OR, THERE AND BACK AGAIN
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

THE THIEF OF EDDIS SERIES
BOOK ONE: 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.