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Teen Reads Fantasy For Every Season
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The bright & the pale
by Jessica Rubinkowski
A fantasy debut inspired by Russian folklore follows the experiences of a survivor from a community under a magical deep-freeze curse who joins the Thieves Guild before leading a perilous expedition to rescue her loved ones. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Among the beasts & briars
by Ashley Poston
"Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale-inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: Whenshe was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse--the magic--in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. It's up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it's going to take everything she has just to survive"
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Don't call the wolf
by Aleksandra Ross
A fantasy debut inspired by Eastern European culture finds a young queen hopelessly battling the monster hordes that have descended on her forest before agreeing to help a lone surviving dragon slayer in exchange for his services. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Rust in the root
by Justina Ireland
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided--between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology--otherwise known as Mechomancy--not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage's license and becoming something more than a rootworker. But four months later, she's got little to show for it other than an empty pocket and broken dreams. With nowhere else to turn, Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane's Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the Dynamism so that Mechomancy can thrive. There she meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysteriouspast, who reluctantly takes Laura on as an apprentice. As they're sent off on their first mission together into the heart of the country's oldest and most mysterious Blight, they discover the work of mages not encountered since the darkest period in America's past, when Black mages were killed for their power--work that could threaten Laura's and the Skylark's lives, and everything they've worked for"
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Kingdom of Souls
by Rena Barron
Disappointing her family of powerful witch doctors because of her lack of abilities, Arrah makes the difficult choice to sacrifice years of her life for scraps of magic to uncover why children are going missing throughout the city.
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The left-handed booksellers of London
by Garth Nix
Searching for the father she has never met in an alternate-world 1983 London, Susan is drawn into an extended family of magical, left-handed, fighting booksellers who police intruders from the mythical Old World of England. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Sunbearer Trials
by Aiden Thomas
"Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones, Teo, the 17-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, must compete against more powerful and better trained opponents for fame, glory and his own survival. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook."
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Rise of the vicious princess
by C. J. Redwine
Assuming the duties of her mother, the Queen, while managing both a war and her kingdom, Princess Charis disguises herself as a smuggler at night, hunting for new enemies, and risks both her heart and her life for the one boy she cannot have. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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If you could see the sun
by Ann Liang
"When her parents can no longer afford her tuition, Alice Sun monetizes her strange new power of invisibility by selling scandalous secrets about her classmates until she risks losing her conscience??and even her life. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook."
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A curse so dark and lonely
by Brigid Kemmerer
A lush retelling of Beauty and the Beast finds a cursed prince reliving the same autumn over and over in the form of a dangerous monster, hoping to save his kingdom and win the heart of a girl from the real world. By the author of the Elementals series
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Serpent & dove
by Shelby Mahurin
A first entry in a fantasy trilogy set in a world where witches are burned at the stake, finds a young witch forced into marriage with a church huntsman, a situation that is further complicated by their growing feelings for each other.
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Extasia
by Claire Legrand
To protect her village against the evil power living beneath the black mountain, a girl joins a coven, becoming one of the four saints of Haven and standing with her sisters to save their people from destruction. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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