Fantasy


Fiction
Title: A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author: Libba Bray
Summary: After her mother is mysteriously killed, sixteen-year-old Gemma is sent off to school in Victorian England to learn the ways of of sorcery and the marriage meat market.


Title: A Stir of Bones
Author: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Susan struggles with an abusive father but has a chance to better her life when she bonds with an abandoned house and the ghost of the boy who haunts it.


Title: A Wizard of Earthsea
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Summary: During an apprenticeship to the Master Wizard, young Sparrowhawk releases a terrible evil upon the world, and must use his sorcerer powers to restore the balance.


Title: Abarat
Author: Clive Barker
Summary: Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day comes upon the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.


Title: Across the Nightingale Floor
Author: Lian Hearn
Summary: Young Takeo draws on his supernatural powers to get revenge against the warlords who destroyed his village in ancient Japan.


Title: Airborn
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Summary: Matt Cruse enters a world of adventure and intrigue as he assists Kate, the granddaughter of a dying man he rescued off a hot air balloon, in finding the strange creatures her grandfather described in his diary.


Title: Amulet of Samarkand
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Summary: Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, is working way out of his league when he calls up the djinni, Bartimaeus, to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.


Title: Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman
Summary: Charlie Nancy returns to Florida to bury his father and unknowingly opens the door to his mysterious and magical past heritage, including his long-lost brother, Spider.


Title: Arrows of the Queen
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Talia escapes an arranged marriage when a Companion (a magical white horse) chooses her as his Herald, but now she must learn her new duties, avoid intrigue at the royal court and reform the spoiled heir to the throne.


Title: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
Summary: Artemis finds trouble when he kidnaps a dangerous fairy to collect ransom in gold. The Fairy People fight back vehemently with magic and high technology.


Title: Blue Girl
Author: Charles De Lint
Summary: At her new high school, reformed "bad girl" Imogene befriends Adrian, a ghost that haunts the school, before turning to him for help against soul-sucking entities that threaten her life.


Title: Dealing with Dragons
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Summary: Princess Cimorene, who despises traditional court life and wishes for freedom and adventure, runs away to become a dragon's princess.


Title: Dragonsong
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Summary: After Menolly's father forbids her from becoming a Harper, or professional musician, she leaves her home on the planet of Pern and forges a new life with the help of a group of fire lizards.


Title: Endymion Spring
Author: Matthew Skelton
Summary: Blake is surrounded by danger after a magical book, printed by Gutenberg, chooses him for its protector.


Title: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Summary: In Aagaesia, fifteen-year-old Eragon finds a mysterious stone that hatches into the dragon Saphira. Armed with his dragon rider skills, they seek revenge for the death of his uncle.


Title: Faerie Wars
Author: Herbie Brennan
Summary: Henry and old Mr. Fogarty must help return prince Pyrgus Malvae to his rightful place in the land of Faerie.


Title: Fall of a Kingdom
Author: Hilari Bell
Summary: The high commander's daughter, her illegitimate half-brother, and a peasant peddler struggle to save Farsala from the attacking Hrums.


Title: Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Summary: Frodo sets forth on a journey to destroy the one ring that controls Middle Earth and to keep its powers away from Sauron, the Dark Lord.


Title: Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Summary: A sixteen-year-old sorceress, whose only friends have been mystical creatures conjured up by wizardry, experiences the joy and pain of the human world when a baby is left in her care.


Title: Golden Compass
Author: Philip Pullman
Summary: Lyra Belacqua and her daemon, Pantalaimon, most go to the Far North and battle all kinds of devious creatures and evil scientists to rescue her kidnapped best friend, Roger.


Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Summary: After years of neglect as an orphan, Harry is rescued after being accepted into the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.


Title: Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Author: Chris Wooding
Summary: Thaniel, age seventeen, hunts demonic "wytch-kin" through the ruined streets of London where he also finds Alaizabel Cray, a mysterious and possibly possessed young woman.


Title: Hero and the Crown
Author: Robin McKinley
Summary: Princess Aerin, daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman, wielder of the Blue Sword, must battle a dragon and an evil mage to save the Hero's Crown.


Title: Hollow Kingdom
Author: Clare Dunkle
Summary: Kate and her sister Emily go to live at remote, mysterious Hallow Hill, where Marak, the goblin king, chooses Kate for his bride. This is part Labyrinth and part Beauty and the Beast.


Title: Hunter's Moon
Author: O. R. Melling
Summary: Sixteen-year-old cousins Gwen and Findabhair ("Finn") ignore the old traditions when they sleep at a faerie mound during their backpacking trip through Ireland, and Finn is stolen by the faerie king.


Title: Inkheart
Author: Cornelia Funke
Summary: Twelve-year-old Meggie discovers that her father has the magical ability to bring fictional characters to life, but when he accidentally summons two murderers from Inkheart, she must stop them from releasing more villains.


Title: Lightning Thief
Author: Rick Riordan
Summary: When Percy Jackson accidentally vaporizes a Fury disguised as his math teacher, the twelve-year-old discovers his true heritage- he's the son of the Greek god, Poseidon.


Title: Magic or Madness
Author: Justine Larbalestier
Summary: Raised to fear magic, Reason refuses to let her guard down while living with the grandmother she thinks is a witch, until she is magically transported from Australia to New York City where an even greater threat awaits her.


Title: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Author: James Patterson
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Max and her pack of part-human, part-bird youths attempt to rescue little Angel from the evil scientists who bred them and their part-human, part-wolf, experimental henchmen.


Title: Naming
Author: Alison Croggon
Summary: When sixteen-year-old slave Maerad helps the wounded Bard Cadvan, she begins an adventure that reveals her own mystical heritage and pits her against the servants of Dark and their master, the Nameless.


Title: Ropemaker
Author: Peter Dickinson
Summary: The magic protecting the Valley is wearing out, so young Tilja and Tahl, accompanied by her grandmother and his uncle, embark upon a quest for a magician strong enough to renew the protections on their home.


Title: Ruins of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan
Summary: Will hoped to train as a knight at the battleschool, but is chosen instead as a ranger's apprentice, which challenges his strength and abilities in ways he hadn't imagined.


Title: Sabriel
Author: Garth Nix
Summary: Sabriel lives a sheltered life in a boarding school just outside the Old Kingdom, but must enter the Old Kingdom to rescue her father, a necromancer who keeps the dead dead, when he disappears.


Title: Safe-Keeper's Secret
Author: Sharon Shinn
Summary: In the village of Tambleham, Fiona becomes Safe-Keeper, one who guards the secrets of others, until events force her to confront the secrets of her own family, including the identities of her father and adopted brother.


Title: So You Want To Be a Wizard
Author: Diane Duane
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Nita hides in the library to escape bullies and discovers a book titled So You Want to Be a Wizard that draws her into an adventure filled with magic and danger.


Title: Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Summary: A witch tries to poison Kate, while a man appears to be spying on Cecelia. The cousins' letters detail their exploits in an alternate England of 1817, where magic really works.


Title: Terrier
Author: Tamora Pierce
Summary: Beka Cooper, a sixteen-year-old police trainee, uses her magical powers and knowledge of the streets to help two veteran officers investigate the murder of a child and the disappearance of workers in the Lower City.


Title: Thief
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Summary: Gen must retrieve Hamiathes's Gift in order to win his freedom from the King of Sounis, but the amulet, which will allow his captor to control a rival kingdom, is hidden in a deadly magical vault.


Title: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Author: Holly Black
Summary: When Kaye is forced to return to her grandmother's New Jersey home after her rocker mom is attacked by a band-mate, she discovers that her memories of imaginary playmates are real and that she herself is a changling.


Title: Wee Free Men
Author: Terry Pratchett
Summary: Tiffany Aching, witch-in-training, hopes to rescue her brother from the Elf Queen armed with only her wits, a frying pan, a talking toad, and the Wee Free Men.


Title: Wildwood Dancing
Author: Juliet Marillier
Summary: A magical portal leads five sisters into the mystical realm of Wildwood, until their harsh cousin and other dark forces threaten everything they care about.