RecommendedReads: JFiction:Fantasy
TheCurseofEelgrassBog MaryAverling
JAVER, M
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town.
ThroughaCloudedMirror MiyaT.Beck
JBECK, M
Inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this is a breathtaking fantasy adventure. Yuki Snow, an aspiring writer and poet in contemporary California, literally escapes her problems through a magic mirror to imperial Japan.
AccidentalDemons
ClareEdge
JEDGE
, C
Bernadette Crowley is the perfect storm of magical accidents because she is a witch who can summon demons with a prick of her finger. But because she has diabetes, she summons demons every time she tests her blood sugar causing absolute chaos.
TheEmptyPlace OliviaA.Cole
JCOLE, O
When Henry’s father goes missing in the forest on her tenth birthday, her entire world shatters. The last thing she expects is for him to emerge from the trees exactly one year later, unharmed and bearing a gift for her—a strange necklace.
AGameofNoctis DevaFagan
JFAGA, D
In the opulent, sinking city of Dantessa, the Great Game rules all. Pia Paro believes that so long as you follow the rules, you always have a chance at winning. But after her beloved Gramps is sentenced to a life of servitude, Pia accepts a dangerous offer and joins a team of players seeking to win the most perilous game of all: Noctis.
SonaandtheGoldenBeasts RajaniLaRocca
JLARO, R
Though music is outlawed in the land of Devia, Sona hears it everywhere. The ruling class forbade music to prevent the native Devans from using their magic, and Sona hides her abilities lest they put her in danger. Then Sona discovers an orphaned wolf pup. She believes the pup, with its golden ears, might be related to one of the five sacred beasts of Devia, and she vows to keep it safe.
TheLastRheeWitch
JennaLee-Yun
JLEE, J
Friends Ronnie and Jack are headed away to sleepaway camp for the first time ever. As it turns out, the old manor in the woods is the kind of place that's crawling with secrets. Secrets like a witch-hunting dokkaebi intent on finding and silencing the last Rhee witch.
HungryBones LouiseHung
JHUNG, L
When Molly Teng touches the belongings of people who have died, she gets brief glimpses into the lives they lived. Jade is a hungry ghost reliant on the livings' food scraps to survive. When Molly moves into Jade's house, nothing will ever be the same.
Glass:ACinderellaTale KathrynLasky
JLASK, K
Bess has always felt like a bit of an outcast among her family of glassblowers, but then a magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline begins to emerge. So when she suspects her family's business has taken a sinister turn, Bess must find the strength to defeat dark magic and save a certain cinder girl.
PaperDragons:TheFightfortheHidden Realm
SiobhanMcDermott
JMCDE, S
A 12-year-old orphan girl, Yeung Zhi Ging, wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals in the first book of the new must-read magical series destined to take the world by storm.
TheDragon’sApprentice JamesRiley
JRILE, J
In this hilarious fantasy adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Story Thieves series, a girl strikes a deal with the ancient, cranky dragon she accidentally summoned to teach her the forbidden magic she needs to save her mother.
Majestica SaraTolscer
JTOLS, S
When disaster strikes at Majestica, a magical creature park, thirteen-year-old maid Hattie and Evelyn, the park owner's spoiled niece, must overcome their differences to save the day.
WhereThereBeMonsters AlbyC.Williams
JWILL
, A
When eleven-year-old Glory leaves her family inn in the Seam, a monster-filled land, for a secret journey across time and space with a mysterious boy, she discovers something is dangerously amiss in the Outersphere.
LuluSinagtalaandtheCityoftheNoble Warriors GailD.Villanueva
JVILL, G
Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos.
FarrahNoorzadandtheRingofFate DeebaZargarpur
JZARG, D
Farrah sees her father just one day every year--her birthday. But this year, her wish to bring them closer goes wildly awry when Farrah discovers she is a halfjinn and her father is one of the seven great jinn kings. Her wish traps her father inside a legendary ring, and the other six jinn kings will follow unless Farrah can rectify her mistake.