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Fantasy Novels
TITHE: A Modern Fairy Tale. Holly Black
YA PB Black
Sixteen-year-old Kaye has always been able to see and speak with fairies. When she comes across an injured young man named Roiben, she discovers she is a pixie changeling and soon becomes involved in a fairy war between good and evil. The first in the series.
A Great and Terrible Beauty. Libba Bray
YA Bray
Gemma Doyle is sixteen, living with her family in India, and wants to go to school in London. When her mother won't agree to send her there, they have a huge fight and Gemma runs off. Then Gemma has a horrible vision and witnesses her mother's death. Months later, Gemma has her wish: she is now enrolled in a school in London, but she is tormented by grief and visions. Soon, she learns to control the visions, makes some friends, and takes them into magical realms where anything can happen. The first in the series.
The Book of Lost Things. John Connolly
FIC CONNOLLY
David is twelve years old, his mother is dead, and World War II has just begun. David's mother always told him that stories were real, but after her death, the books start talking to him so much that David fears he's going insane. Soon his father remarries, and with the birth of a new child, David feels even more isolated and left out. The family has moved to an old, drafty house in the countryside, and while wandering in the garden one evening, David crash-lands through a portal into another realm. All is not well in this realm; the land is dying and giant wolf-like creatures are taking over. After befriending a knight, David begins a journey to find the king, who supposedly has a magical Book that will help David get home again.This book is in the Adult Fiction section; it won an Alex award, which means it has appeal to both adults and young adults.
The Naming Allison Croggon
YA CROGGON
Maerad is a sixteen-year-old orphan living as a slave in the city of Pellinor. But she discovers she is gifted with magic and escapes from slavery, where she meets Cadvan. Cadvan is a Bard, one of the Starpeople, and he begins to teach Maerad about her powers. Cadvan also believes that Maerad is destined to fight the dark power called the Nameless and will save the world. Often compared to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, this is the first book in the series.
Once Upon A Marigold. Jean Ferris
YA Ferris
Christian has been raised in the forest by trolls and spends his teen years watching Princess Marigold through a telescope. The princess returns his affection, and the two correspond by p-mail (carrier pigeon). Christian decides it's time to see the world and lands a job in court; his intentions are to betroth Marigold, but she has already been engaged to another!
The Minister's Daughter. Julie Hearn
YA Hearn
Nell lives with her grandmother in a cottage at the edge of the village. Her grandmother is a medicine woman who follows the pagan ways, but since she is ailing, Nell must quickly learn the skills of medicine and midwifery, to include everyone from humans to fairies. Meanwhile, the minister's daughter Grace finds herself in trouble and draws her sister Patience into a witchcraft conspiracy against Nell.
Goose Chase. Patrice Kindl
YA Kindl
Alexandria is an ugly, orphaned goose girl who gives bread to an old beggar woman. The woman rewards her by turning her into a beautiful young woman whose very touch turns things to gold and jewels. Alexandria is then hounded by both a tyrant and a dim-wit who want to marry her, but she is determined to remain single. Throughout her adventures and escapades, she soon discovers that she is a princess and that the 12 geese she used to tend are very special indeed.
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle #1)Ursula K. Le Guin
YA LEGUIN
Sparrowhawk is a wizard's apprentice hungry for knowledge and magic. When he dips into long-protected secrets, he unleashes a terrible darkness on the world and is quickly forced to grow up as he tries to right his mistake. Another series compared to Lord of the Rings, this is the first book of four.
Spindle's End. Robin McKinley
YA McKinley
When Rosie is a baby, she is cursed by an evil fairy to die on her 21st birthday by pricking her finger on a spindle. This plan is thwarted when a good fairy whisks the baby away to be raised in the forest among the animals. Rosie grows up to be a strong and independent young woman who ends up saving her entire village without a prince in sight!
Sabriel. Garth Nix
J Nix
Sabriel's father is a necromancer who becomes trapped in the land of Death. To save him, Sabriel leaves school and sets off into the Old Kingdom, where her journey is filled with evil spirits, peril and trickery. Soon Sabriel takes over her father's duties and must help the departed cross the icy river of Death. The first in the series.
Wee Free Men. Terry Pratchett
YA Pratchett
Tiffany Aching is a nine-year-old girl who suspects she is a witch. She lives on her father's farm and is hounded constantly by her sticky and annoying little brother. But when her brother is kidnapped by monsters from Fairyland, Tiffany sets off to find him, with the help of some pint-sized blue men. The first in the Tiffany Aching series.
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) Philip Pullman
YA Pullman
Lyra's life changes forever when she and her daimon, Pantalaimon, thwart an assassination attempt on her uncle's life, then learn about the mysterious substance called Dust. Lyra's uncle has witnessed the dust and is trying to solicit enough money for a return trip to the Arctic. Soon Lyra finds herself in the possession of a mysterious compass When Lyra finds out that her uncle is being helf prisoner in the frozen North, she and Pan set out on an adventure filled with wonder and danger. First in the series.
