Books on Display: The Chosen One
The fate of the world hangs in the balance, and only one special person can save it: the chosen one!
 

Burn
by Patrick Ness

When her impoverished family is forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, Sarah is surprised by the dragon’s protective nature before learning about a prophecy that links her to a deadly assassin, a dragon-worshipping cult and two FBI agents. 
Carry on : the rise and fall of Simon Snow
by Rainbow Rowell

Simon Snow's final year at the Watford School of Magicks is overshadowed by a painful breakup, an overprotective mentor, a roommate's disappearance and a plethora of monsters. 
Children of blood and bone
by Tomi Adeyemi

Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities. 
Furyborn
by Claire Legrand

Revealed as one of two prophesied queens destined to shape their world, Rielle embarks on a series of dangerous magical trials that link her to the other queen, a ruthless bounty hunter born a thousand years later who joins a rebel captain to fight imperial corruption in the hope of rescuing her abducted mother. 
The gilded ones
by Namina Forna

Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor’s army of near-immortal women warriors. 
House of dragons
by Jessica Cluess

Unexpectedly summoned to compete for the throne, five outcasts including a liar, a soldier, a servant, a thief and a murderer navigate respective secrets during a trial that tests the limits of their abilities. By the author of the Kingdom on Fire series.
In every generation
by Kendare Blake

A sophomore at New Sunnydale High School, Frankie Rosenberg is the daughter of the most powerful witch in Sunnydale history. Her mom, Willow, is slowly teaching her magic on the condition that she use it to better the world. Then new girl Hailey shows up with news that the annual Slayer convention has been the target of an attack, and all the Slayers-- including Buffy, Faith, and Hailey's older sister Vi-- might be dead. Being the first-ever Slayer-Witch means learning how to wield a stake while trying to control her budding powers. With the help of Hailey, a werewolf named Jake, and a hot but nerdy sage demon, Frankie must become the Slayer, prevent the Hellmouth from opening again, and find out what happened to her Aunt Buffy, before she is next.
The nature of witches
by Rachel M. Griffin

In one of the most anticipated young adult debuts of 2021 comes the fierce, romantic story about a world on the brink of destruction, the one witch— Clara, an Everwitch—who holds the power to save it and the choice that could cost her everything she loves.
Night Spinner
by Addie Thorley

After being exiled to a monastery for losing control of her powers, Enebish's sister Ghoa returns from the war front with an offer Enebish just cannot refuse
Realm breaker
by Victoria Aveyard

A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage--and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions: a squire, forced to choose between home and honor, an immortal, avenging a broken promise, an assassin, exiled and bloodthirsty, an ancient sorceress, whose riddles hide an eerie foresight, a forger with a secret past, a bounty hunter with a score to settle. Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.
Six crimson cranes
by Elizabeth Lim

After unleashing forbidden magic, being banished by her stepmother and unable to speak or her brothers will die, Shiori’anma must find a way to save them with the help of a paper bird, a mercurial dragon and the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. 
There will come a darkness
by Katy Rose Pool

A century after their lands protective Seven Prophets disappear in the wake of a secret prediction about an age of darkness, five very different individuals are intertwined in a prophecy that says one of them will save or destroy the world.
Winter, white and wicked
by Shannon Dittemore

On an island cursed by eternal winter, Sylvi agrees to run a late-season haul for a smuggler, but when they reach their destination, Sylvi must decide if she can abandon her cherished solitude and anonymity--and the favor of the icy spirit Winter--to join with the rebels
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