Thursday, September 24, 2020

Kids' Book Spotlight - Fabulous Fantasy Teen Books

"I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times." ~ Lady Gaga

Teen Middle (Grades 6-8)


The Seeking Serum
by Frank L. Cole

As the fight intensifies between B.R.E.W and the Scourges, it falls to Gordy and his friends to unite the potion-making community and stop Mezzarix from plunging the world back into the Dark Ages.

Riverland
by Fran Wilde

When their parents fight, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide, whispering stories and hoping house magic will protect them, until the night a river carries them to a place of dreams and nightmares.


  by Ryan Calejo

   When Queen Joanna is kidnapped Charlie and Violet set out across South America to find her and discover a conspiracy to raise the dead.

Anya and the Dragon
by Sofiya Pasternack

In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.

Epoca
by Ivy Pochoda

Set in an alternative classical world dominated by sports and a magical power called grana, this is the story of two children: the orphaned outcast Rovi and the crown princess Pretia, who uncover and battle terrible evil and discover their inner strength along the way. It takes place at the most elite sports academy in the land, where the best child-athletes are sent to hone their skills. When Rovi and Pretia arrive, each harboring a secret about themselves, they begin to suspect that something malicious is at play at the school. In the course of their first year, they must learn to master their grana in order to save the world.

Teen High (Grades 9-12)


  by April Genevieve Tucholke

Torvi and Morgunn must learn to survive on their own after a plague sweeps through their steading. They hear rumors of Uther, a Fremish wolf-priest, and a band of girls who move through Vorseland searching for recruits. When Uther captures Morgunn, Torvi teams up with a band roving Elsh artists called the Butcher Bard to rescue her sister-- or die trying.
  A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
  by Roseanne Brown

For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal-kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia's freedom. But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic ... requiring the beating heart of a king.

   So This is Love
   by Elizabeth Lim

What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she's the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king's visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king--and the prince--out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies, including Cinderella's own Fairy Godmother. Faced with questions of love and loyalty to the kingdom, Cinderella must find a way to stop the villains of past and present . . . before it's too late.


   Layoverland
   by Gabby Noone

When seventeen-year-old Beatrice arrives in Purgatory and is chosen to help others reach Heaven, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Caleb, with whom she shares a tragic history.
   Chain of Gold
   by Cassandra Clare

Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
    






  Stephani Lindsey
  Youth Specialist
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