Fantasy
Today is 5/24/2012
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Fall of a Kingdom (YA BEL)
by Hilari Bell (1st in Farsala trilogy)
The prosperous land of Farsala is both feared and respected. It has enjoyed peace. Now a new enemy approaches Farsala borders, one that neither fears nor respects Farsala’s name and legend.
Tithe (YA BLA, YA LP BLA)
by Holly Black (1st in series)
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.
Faerie Wars (YA BRE, YA CD BRE)
by Herbie Brennan (1st in Faerie Wars series)
Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
Firegold (YA CAL)
by Dia Calhoun
Thirteen-year-old Jonathon, feared and hated by the brown-eyed Valley people because of his blue eyes, tries to find answers to his true identity in the Red Mountains, home of the Dalriada, mountain people with magnificent horses, mystical powers, and blue eyes like his.
Graceling (YA CAS, YA CD CAS)
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.
City of Bones (YA CLA, YA CD CLA)
by Cassandra Clare (1st in Mortal Instruments series)
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.
The Seeing Stone (YA CRO)
by Kevin Crossley-Holland (1st in Arthur trilogy)
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.
So You Want to be a Wizard (YA DUA, YA CD DUA)
by Diane Duane (1st in Young Wizards series)
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won’t fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
Inkheart (YA FUN, YA CD FUN)
by Cornelia Funke (1st in series)
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Wise Child (YA FUR)
by Monica Furlong
Abandoned by both her parents, nine-year-old Wise Child goes to live with the witch woman Juniper, who begins to train her in the ways of herbs and magic.
The Goose Girl (YA HAL)
by Shannon Hale (1st in Books of Bayern series)
On her way to marry a prince she’s never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
The Cry of the Icemark (YA HIL)
by Stuart Hill (1st in Icemark series)
After the death of her father, headstrong princess Thirrin Freer Strong-In-The-Arm becomes warrior queen of her homeland, Icemark, defending it from a formidable invader. By spring she must unite the strange beasts and frightening creatures who live just outside her country.
Stravaganza: City of Masks (YA HOF)
by Mary Hoffman (1st in Stravaganza series)
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Into the Wild (YA HUN)
by Erin W. Hunter (1st in Warriors series)
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
Redwall (YA JAC, YA CD JAC)
by Brian Jacques (1st in Redwall series)
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall’s inhabitants destroy the enemy.
Howl’s Moving Castle (YA JON)
by Diane Wynne Jones (1st in series)
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
Troll Fell (YA LAN)
by Katherine Langrish (1st in Troll Fell series)
Forced to live with his evil, identical-twin uncles after his father’s death, twelve-year-old Peer tries to find a way to stop their plan to sell the neighbor’s children to the trolls.
A Wizard of Earthsea (YA LEG)
by Ursula Le Guin (1st in Earthsea series)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s first book of Earthsea introduces a boy who grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Dragonsong (YA MCC)
by Anne McCaffrey (1st in Harper Hall trilogy)
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet’s fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
The Blue Sword (YA MCK)
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 Squire’s Tale (YA MOR, YA LP MOR)
by Gerald Morris (1st in Squire’s Tale series)
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.
Sabriel (YA NIX, YA CD NIX)
by Garth Nix (1st in Abhorsen series)
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.
Eragon (YA PAO, YA CD PAO, DVD FAMILY ERA)
by Christopher Paolini (1st in Inheritance series)
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.
East (YA PAT)
by Edith Pattou
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
Alanna: The First Adventure (YA PIE, YA CD PIE)
by Tamora Pierce (1st in Song of the Lioness series)
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.
The Wee Free Men (YA PRA, YA CD PRA)
by Terry Pratchett (1st in series)
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
The Golden Compass (YA PUL, YA CD PUL, YA LP PUL, DVD SCI –FI GOL)
by Philip Pullman (1st in His Dark Materials series)
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 Lightning Thief (YA RIO, YA CD RIO)
by Rick Riordan (1st in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series)
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. Percy’s mom finds out he was attacked by his pre-algebra teacher (who turns into a monster) and she sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Suddenly, mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. The gods of Mount Olympus, he’s coming to realize, are very much alive in the twenty-first century.
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (YA SKY Lev V1)
by Obert Skye (1st in Leven Thumps series)
When fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven and thirteen-year-old Winter together, they discover that for mankind to continue dreaming, the gateway between reality and dreams needs to be found and demolished.
The Amulet of Samarkand (YA STR)
by Jonathan Stroud (1st in Bartimaeus trilogy)
Nathaniel, a magician’s apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
The Hobbit (YA TOL, CD TOL)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
The Thief (YA TUR)
by Megan Whalen Turner (1st in Queen’s Thief series)
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.
Dealing with Dragons (YA WRE, YA CD WRE)
by Patricia Wrede (1st in Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons’ kingdom.
