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| Here's where to find our list of recommended fantasy books, from elves to shapeshifters and everything in between. If you would like to help make new lists or add on to an existing list call Heather @ 262-0626 or email at haronson@biblio.org. |
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| Bell, Hilari |
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The Last Knight . 2007 |
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In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband's murder.
Sequels include Rogue's Home and Player's Ruse |
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| Black, Holly |
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Tithe. 2002 |
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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.
Sequels and companion books include Valiant and Ironside |
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| Bracken, Alexandra |
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Brightly Woven. 2010 |
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Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard in stopping an imminent war in land. |
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| Carey, Janet Lee |
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The Beast of Noor. 2006 |
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Fifteen-year-old Miles Ferrell uses the rare and special gift he is given to break the curse of the Shriker, a murderous creature reportedly brought to Shalem Wood by his family's clan centuries before.
Sequels include Dragons of Noor |
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| Carriger, Gail |
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Soulless. 2009 |
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" meets Jane Austen in this wickedly funny debut novel, which kicks off Carriger's new series set in an alternate 19th-century London that not only knows about vampires and werewolves, but accepts them into the upper tiers of society.
Sequels include Changeless and Blameless |
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| Cashore, Kristin |
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Graceling. 2008 |
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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.
Sequels included Fire. |
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| Chima, Cinda Williams |
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The Warrior Heir. 2006 |
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After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
Sequels include The Wizard Heir and The Dragon Heir |
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| Eddings, David |
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The Pawn of Prophecy. 1982 |
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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 dread evil God Torak was reawakened.
Sequels in the Belgariad include Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit, Castle of Wizardry and Enchanter's End Game
Sequels in the Malloreon include Guardians of the West, King of Murgos, Demon Lord of the Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva and The Seeress of Kell
Prequel and companions include Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress and The Rivan Codex |
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| Flanagan, John |
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The Ruins of Gorlan. 2005 |
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When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
Sequels include The Burning Bridge, Icebound Land, The Battle for Skandia, Sorcerer of the North, Seige of Macindaw, Erak's Ransom, The Kings of Clonmel, Halt's Peril and The Emperor of Nihon-Ja |
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| Golding, Julia |
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Dragonfly. 2009 |
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When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord. |
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| Jacques, Brian |
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The Redwall Series. 1986 to Present |
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A series chronicling the lives of woodland residents, all centering around their beloved Redwall Abbey and the legacy of their champion Martin the Warrior.
The series in publication order includes Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker, Outcast of Redwall, The Pearls of Lutra, The Long Patrol, Marlfox, The Legend of Luke, Lord Brocktree, Taggerung, Triss, Loamhedge, Rakkety Tam, High Rhulain, Doomwyte, and The Sable Queen |
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| Jones, Diana Wynne |
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Enchanted Glass. 2010 |
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After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives. |
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| Jones, Diana Wynne |
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The Game. 2007 |
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Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her past are revealed. |
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| Jones, Diana Wynne |
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Howl's Moving Castle. 1986 |
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A series chronicling the lives of woodland residents, all centering around their beloved Redwall Abbey and the legacy of their champion Martin the Warrior.
Sequels include Castle in the Air and The House of Many Ways |
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| Jones, Frewin |
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The Faerie Path. 2007 |
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Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.
Sequels include The Lost Queen, The Sorcerer King, The Immortal Realm, The Enchanted Quest and The Charmed Return |
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| Marr, Melissa |
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Wicked Lovely. 2007 |
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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 Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
Companion books include Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity and Radiant Shadows |
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| Miyabe, Miyuki |
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Brave Story. 2007 |
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Young Wataru Mitani’s life is a mess. His father has abandoned him and his mother has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Desperately he searches for some way to change his life—a way to alter his fate.nbsp;To achieve his goal, he must navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. And to complicate matters, he must outwit a merciless rival from the real world.nbsp;Wataru’s ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journey and collected five elusive gemstones will he possess the Demon’s Bane—the key that will unlock his future - Charity, bravery, faith, grace and the power of darkness and light: these are the provinces of each gemstone. Brought together, they have the immeasurable power to bring Wataru’s family back together again. |
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| Nimmo, Jenny |
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Midnight for Charlie Bone. 2002 |
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Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.
Sequels include Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors, Charlie Bone and the Hidden King, Charlie Bone and the Beast, Charlie Bone and the Shadow and Charlie Bone and the Red Knight |
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| Ono, Fuyumi |
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The Twelve Kingdoms Series. 2007 to Present |
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For high-schooler Yoko Nakajima, life has been fairly ordinary--that is until Keiki, a young man with golden hair, tells Yoko they must return to their kingdom. Once confronted by this mysterious being and whisked away to an unearthly realm, Yoko is left with only a magical sword; a gem; and a million questions about her destiny, the world she's trapped in, and the world she desperately wants to return to. |
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| Pon, Cindy |
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Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia. 2009 |
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With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, 17-year old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
Sequels include Fury of the Phoenix |
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| Reeve, Philip |
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Here Lies Arthur. 2008 |
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When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur. |
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| Sage, Angie |
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Magyk. 2005 |
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After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
Sequels and companions include Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren and The Magykal Papers |
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| Salmon, Dena K. |
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Discordia: The Eleventh Dimension. 2009 |
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An avid player of the online fantasy game Discordia, Lance wishes he could spend all of his time in the game--and his wish is soon granted. Before he's allowed to leave this perilous 11th dimension, he must complete a high-level quest that may determine Discordia's survival--and Lance's, too. |
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| Tolkien, J. R. R. |
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The Hobbit. 1966 |
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The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.
Continue the series with The Lord of The Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, & The Return of the King) |
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