Sorted By: Fantasy
Kathryn Ormsbee
The House in Poplar Wood
August 2018, Chronicle Books, 344 pp
Simultaneously heartwarming and delightfully spooky, The House in Poplar Wood is a story about a boy's desire to be free, a girl's desire to make a difference, and a family's desire to be together aga...
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Madeline McGrane
THE ACCURSED VAMPIRE
Summer 2021, HarperCollins, TBD pp
A spooky and funny graphic novel debut that’s perfect for fans of Molly Knox Ostertag’s THE WITCH BOY and Kristen Gudsnuk’s MAKING FRIENDS. Dragoslava is a vampire kid. And that’s not even the worst ...
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Kat Cho
VICIOUS SPIRITS
August 2020, Putnam/Penguin, 416 pp
Miyoung and Jihoon are picking up the pieces of their broken lives following the deaths of Miyoung’s mother, Yena, and Jihoon’s grandmother. The events at the end of Wicked Fox have upended the forces...
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Kat Cho
WICKED FOX
June 2019, Putnam/Penguin, 448 pp
An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so fe...
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Suzanne Weyn
THIEF EYES
Spring 2010, Random House, 272 pp
After her mother mysteriously disappears, sixteen-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen. There, amidst the ancient fissures and crevices of that vo...
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Betty G. Birney
OG THE FROG SERIES
WILDLIFE ACCORDING TO OG THE FROG
Book 3 – May 2020, Putnam/Penguin, 144 pp
In the third book in the spinoff of the Humphrey series, Og and Humphrey head to summer camp to see what’s hopping in the wilderness! Og didn’t know where he would end up when school was over, but it...
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Betty G. Birney
HUMPHREY SERIES
SPRING ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY
Book 12 – January 2016, Putnam/Penguin, 160 pp
Join Humphrey, the classroom hamster, as he navigates the wilds of school with the students of Room 26. Each book is a funny and unique look at life from the perspective of an adorable and caring cla...
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Suzanne Weyn
INVISIBLE WORLD
August 2012, Scholastic, 240 pp
For 15-year-old Sarah Owen, having a scientist father is a blessing and a curse. He doesn’t bat an eye at her psychic abilities, since he researches them; and she knows more about the invisible worlds...
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Suzanne Weyn
THE BAR CODE PROPHECY
October 2013, Scholastic, 208 pp
The third book in the Bar Code series, in which one girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world. Grace lives a normal life. She goes to school during the day and works part-time at th...
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Suzanne Weyn
DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S DAUGHTERS
January 2013, Scholastic, 250 pp
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties a...
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Hilary Wagner
NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES
LORDS OF TRILLIUM
Book 3 – March 2014, Holiday House, 250 pp
Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by deca...
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON KING CHRONICLES
KING
Book 3 – December 2014, HarperCollins/HarperTeen, 288 pp
This thrilling and romantic conclusion to the Prophecy series brings Kira her final quest. Kira, once an outcast in her home village of Hansong, is now the only one with the power to save her kingdom....
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON EGG PRINCESS
March 2020, HarperCollins, 256 pp
A must-have middle grade novel perfect for fans of the Wing & Claw series by Linda Sue Park. In a kingdom filled with magic, Jiho Park and his family are an anomaly—magic doesn’t affect them. Jiho co...
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Janni Lee Simner
BONES OF FAERIE SERIES
FAERIE AFTER
Book 3 – May 2013, Random House, 272 pp
Janni Lee Simner’s young adult novels are a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction, as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique. The three books in the Bones of Faerie series take readers...
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Suzanne Walker / Wendy Xu
MOONCAKES
Fall 2019, Lion Forge, 256 pp
A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers’ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books a...
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Shveta Thakrar
STAR DAUGHTER
August 2020, Harperteen/HarperCollins, 448 pp
The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Her mother returned to the constellation Pushya when Sheetal was just a child, and since then, Sheetal has hidden her true iden...
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Amparo Ortiz
BLAZEWRATH GAMES
October 2020, Page Street Kids, 368 pp
Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangero...
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Kristin Kladstrup
THE BOOK OF STORY BEGINNINGS
March 2006, Candlewick, 368 pp
This wonderfully transporting fantasy - featuring a ship full of orphaned pirate children, a pair of warring royals, and plenty of magic potions - is sure to thrill all those who dare turn its pages....
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Kristin Kladstrup
GARDEN PRINCESS
March 2013, Candlewick, 272 pp
Dig in to this middle-grade fantasy featuring a horticulturally-minded princess, a beautiful but evil witch, and a magpie with a shameful secret....
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Kristin Kladstrup
NUTCRACKER MICE
October 2017, Candlewick, 336 pp
Hidden in Saint Petersburg’s famed Mariinsky Theater are the world’s tiniest ballet fans: the Mariinsky mice, including Esmeralda, a rising dancer in the Russian Mouse Ballet Company. Despite being un...
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Carolyn Hennesy
MYTHIC MISADVENTURES SERIES
PANDORA GETS FRIGHTENED
Book 7 – July 2013, July 2013, Bloomsburg, 288 pp
Mythic Misadventures series in which Pandora tries to recapture all the great evils of the world and return them to the infamous box....
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Jeanne DuPrau
CITY OF EMBER SERIES
THE CITY OF EMBER
May 2003, Random House, 288 pp
City of Ember Series...
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Jeanne DuPrau
THE CITY OF EMBER: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
September 2012, Random House, 144 pp
Experience Jeanne DuPrau’s vision anew as artist Niklas Asker faithfully brings to life the glare of lamps, the dinginess of the streets, and the brilliance of the first sunrise....
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Paige Britt
THE LOST TRACK OF TIME
March 2015, Scholastic, 320 pp
Penelope longs to be a writer, but her mother won’t allow it—scribbling in your notebook all day is a complete waste of time! One morning, a strange hole opens up in her otherwise busy schedule, and s...
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Shakirah Bourne
JOSEPHINE AGAINST THE SEA
Spring 2021, Scholastic, TBD pp
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste meets R.L.Stine’s The Girl Who Cried Monster. 11 year-old Jo discovers that her Dad’s new girlfriend is a powerful sea creature and has to convince everyone of the woma...