Bibliography
Sorted by Author / Title.
FIC CASCashore, Kristin. Graceling. Boston : Graphia, c2008.
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 of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
FIC CLAClare, Cassandra. City of bones. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2007.
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.
FIC COLColfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2001.
"Talk Miramax Books." Sequel: Artemis Fowl, the Arctic incident. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
FIC FUNFunke, Cornelia Caroline. Inkheart. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic, 2003.
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
FIC JONJones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986.
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.
FIC LEWLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. New York : HarperTrophy, [1994], c1978.
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
FIC MAAMaas, Sarah J. Throne of glass. New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
FIC MEYMeyer, Marissa. Cinder. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
FIC NIMNimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone. 1st Scholastic ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003, c2002.
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.
FIC NIXNix, Garth. Sabriel. New York : HarperCollins, c1995.
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.
FIC PAOPaolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York : Knopf, c2003.
In Alagaesia, 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.
FIC PULPullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf ;Distributed by Random House, 1996.
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.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2006, c2005.
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The lost hero. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010.
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The red pyramid. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
FIC SAGSage, Angie. Magyk. New York : Scholastic, 2006, 2005.
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.
FIC ROWScamander, Newt, author. Fantastic beasts & where to find them.
A copy of Harry Potter's--and Ronald Weasley's--textbook which provides alphabetically arranged entries that describe creatures, monsters, and legendary beings; and includes a Norwegian Ridgeback, a Hippogriff, pixie, and more.
FIC SCOScott, Michael Dylan. The alchemyst : the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
FIC STRStroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2003.
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.
FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The hobbit or There and back again. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1997.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Sorted by Author / Title.
FIC CASCashore, Kristin. Graceling. Boston : Graphia, c2008.
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 of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
FIC CLAClare, Cassandra. City of bones. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2007.
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.
FIC COLColfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2001.
"Talk Miramax Books." Sequel: Artemis Fowl, the Arctic incident. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
FIC FUNFunke, Cornelia Caroline. Inkheart. 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic, 2003.
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
FIC JONJones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986.
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.
FIC LEWLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. New York : HarperTrophy, [1994], c1978.
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
FIC MAAMaas, Sarah J. Throne of glass. New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
FIC MEYMeyer, Marissa. Cinder. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
FIC NIMNimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone. 1st Scholastic ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003, c2002.
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.
FIC NIXNix, Garth. Sabriel. New York : HarperCollins, c1995.
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.
FIC PAOPaolini, Christopher. Eragon. New York : Knopf, c2003.
In Alagaesia, 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.
FIC PULPullman, Philip, 1946-. The golden compass. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf ;Distributed by Random House, 1996.
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.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2006, c2005.
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The lost hero. 1st ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010.
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
FIC RIORiordan, Rick. The red pyramid. Large print ed. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
FIC SAGSage, Angie. Magyk. New York : Scholastic, 2006, 2005.
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.
FIC ROWScamander, Newt, author. Fantastic beasts & where to find them.
A copy of Harry Potter's--and Ronald Weasley's--textbook which provides alphabetically arranged entries that describe creatures, monsters, and legendary beings; and includes a Norwegian Ridgeback, a Hippogriff, pixie, and more.
FIC SCOScott, Michael Dylan. The alchemyst : the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.
Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
FIC STRStroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2003.
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.
FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The hobbit or There and back again. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1997.
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.