Fantasy

Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson

Since her father's death in a factory, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom. Piper lives in a world where the veil into others is thin. Meteor storms rain down objects from other lands and scavenging these strange odds and ends is the only way to make money in the outer provinces. Then one day Piper finds a girl lying amongst the rubble of her carriage, unconscious. She’s beautiful and well dressed, and the dragonfly marking on her wrist confirms that she is the most valuable thing Piper's ever stumbled upon. But people don't leave valuables in the wastelands, so Piper decides to take her home. It's who comes for the mysterious girl that begins a journey that will change both of their lives forever.

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 Real Boy by Anne Ursu

On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy. The city is called Asteri, the forest is called Barrow, and the boy is called Oscar, a shop boy for the most powerful magician. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. When children in the city are falling ill and Oscar’s master disappears, suddenly it’s up to a very reluctant Oscar to save everyone.



Poison by Bridget Zinn

Realizing that her realm is on the verge of destruction and that she is the only one who can save it, 16-year-old Kyra makes the wrenching decision to poison the kingdom's future ruler, her former best friend.  But, for the first time ever, her poisoned dart misses its mark and Kyra is rendered a fugitive along with a charming adventurer and an adorable pig.




Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

Callie LeRoux is choking on dust. It seeps through the cracks in the hotel that Callie and her mother run in Kansas. Callie's begged her mother to leave their town, like their neighbors have already done, but her mother refuses. She's waiting for Callie's long-gone father to return. Just as the biggest dust storm in history sweeps through the Midwest, Callie discovers her mother's long-kept secret. Callie's not just mixed race--she's half fairy, too. Now, Callie's fairy kin have found where she's been hidden, and they're coming for her. While red dust engulf the prairie, magic unfolds around Callie. Buildings flicker from lush to shabby, and people aren't what they seem. 

The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier

When Trei loses his family in a tragic disaster, he must search out distant relatives in a new land. The Floating Islands are unlike anything Trei has ever seen, including men who soar the skies with wings.  Trei is instantly sky-mad, and desperate to fly himself.  The only one who fully understands his passion is Araene, his newfound cousin.  Prickly, sarcastic, and gifted, Araene has a secret of her own, a  dream a girl cannot attain.  Trei and Araene quickly become conspirators as they pursue their individual paths.  But neither suspects that their lives will be deeply entwined, and that the fate of the Floating Islands will lie in their hands. . .


A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty

Struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello, a parallel world where colors are villainous and who has a missing father, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.




The Story of Owen by e.k. Johnston

In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.




Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts. Just when life can't get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she's charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper's least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him--and discovers that David's own fate could very well be to destroy Earth.

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Both with more than just winning at stake.



Rose by Holly Webb

While others at St. Bridget's Home for Abandoned Girls dream of adoption, Rose wants only a job and independence until she is hired as maid to Mr. Fountain, an alchemist, and realizes that she, like his grand residence, is filled with magic.




The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas

 It all began with a ruined elixir and a bolt of lightning. Iolanthe Seabourne is the greatest elemental mage of her generation--or so she's been told.  It is her duty and destiny to face and defeat the Bane, the most powerful tyrant and mage the world has ever known. Guided by his mother's visions and committed to avenging his family, Prince Titus has sworn to protect Iolanthe even as he prepares her for their battle with the Bane. But he makes the terrifying mistake of falling in love with the girl who should have been only a means to an end. Now, with the servants of the tyrant closing in, Titus must choose between his mission--and her life.

Ordinary Magic by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

In a world where everyone possesses magical abilities, powerless twelve-year-old Abby, an Ordinary, is sent to a special school to learn how to negotiate a magical world with her unmagical "disability"--and to avoid becoming a victim of kidnappers, carnivores, and goblins ready to prey upon the Ords.




The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

 A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . . Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle--aka the Wee Free Men--a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself.

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
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Elisa is the chosen one. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king--a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess. And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake. Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn't die young. Most of the chosen do.

Doll Bones by Holly Black

Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Now they’re entering middle school, it might be time to leave make believe behind them. But first they must embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.





The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

Maia is the youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor and has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three brothers in line for the throne are killed in an 'accident,' he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend . . . and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne--or his life.

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynn Jones

For forty years, Wizard Derk's world has been devastated by Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties - packaged excursions for tourists from the next universe in search of adventure. When mild-mannered Derk is chosen to play the role of this year's Dark Lord, he is forced by the sinister Mr. Chesney to turn his bucolic country estate into a labyrinthine castle lit by baleful fires, manifest himself as a nine-foot-tall shadow with flaming red eyes, and lead his minions in a climactic battle against the Forces of Good.  Can Derk find a way to put an end to the evil Mr. Chesney and his Pilgrim Parties - once and for all?