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Here are our favorite teen fantasy novels. These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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The Dragon and the Stone
by Kathryn Butler
Twelve-year-old Lily discovers a stone pendant and is transported to a realm where people's dreams come to life.
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Ravenfall
by Kalyn Josephson
Able to foresee death while working at her family's magical Ravenfall Inn, 13-year-old Annabella Ballinkay helps 14-year-old Colin Pierce search for the supernatural creature who killed his parents in a hunt that could spell destruction for their world as they know it.
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Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend
by Katie Zhao
When Winnie Zeng unwittingly awakens the stuff of legends from her grandmother's old cookbook, she must embrace her new powers and family legacy to stop her town and the rest of the world from falling into chaos.
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The Counterclockwise Heart
by Brian Farrey
Prince Alphonsus, who has a clock in his chest where his heart should be and it's begun running backward, searches for answers as the future of the empire hangs in the balance.
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Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms
by Jamar J Perry
When Cameron opens the barrier between their world and Chidani, a fabled West African country protecting its people from the slave trade centuries ago, he learns that he is the only one who can save it from danger.
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The Republic of Birds
by Jessica Miller
After her family is exiled from the capital of Tsaretsvo, Olga must use her wits, cunning, and forbidden magic to rescue her kidnapped sister, Mira, and return home from the Republic of Birds. Inspired by Russian folklore.
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The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Esther, an ordinary middle child, returns to school after a quiet summer to discover that her friends haven't returned. The mountains surrounding the school, usually alive with Faeries, have become dark and threatening with Shadow Mages, and it's up to Esther to do something extraordinary.
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Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Carefully avoiding a local river where a schoolmate drowned a year earlier, a space-loving 12-year-old and her best friends organize a night of telescope stargazing before spotting a being who superstitious locals believe to be a malevolent ghost.
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Amber and Clay
by Laura Amy Schlitz
After a binding curse is put on the ghost of a young, privileged girl killed by lightning, she comes to the aid of an enslaved boy in Ancient Greece as she leads him to freedom.
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Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
by Kaela Rivera
Privately questioning her remote community’s superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil’s Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy
by Melissa de la Cruz
The first book in a fairy tale-inspired series that finds a bullied teen summoned by a character from her favorite books into a magical world that is being threatened by an evil queen.
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Artemis Fowl
by
Eoin Colfer
Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl, heir to the Fowl family empire and centuries-old legacy of scams and underworld machinations, decides to uncover the secret treasure of the Fairy People by stealing one of their magical books, decoding with his computer, kidnapping leprechaun Holly Short, and taking on the entire forces of the fairy kingdom.
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The Eternity Elixir
by
Frank Cole
Gordy, an apprentice potion master and son of the director of the hidden community known as the Board of Ruling Elixirists Worldwide (B.R.E.W.), is challenged to protect a forbidden potion of considerable power when it mysteriously disappears and then ends up in Gordy's possession.
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Pegasus: The Flame of Olympus
by
Kate O'Hearn
Follow the story of young Emily, a teen who discovers that mythological beings are real when Pegasus crashes onto a Manhattan roof during a terrible storm and draws Emily into a fierce battle between the Roman gods and a terrifying stone warrior race.
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The Dark Lord Clementine
by
Sarah Jean Horwitz
When her father is cursed by a rival witch, twelve-year-old Clementine Morcerous assumes his duties as Dark Lord of the realm, but she soon begins to question her father's code of good and evil.
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The School for Good and Evil
by Soman Chainani
Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed: Sophie's dumped into the School for Evil for Uglification and Henchmen Training classes, while Agatha attends Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication at the School for Good. When a certain prince charming (son of King Arthur) is thrown into the mix, anything can happen!
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
by
Guillermo del Toro
This spellbinding tale takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family.
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The Iron Trial
by Holly Black
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
by Jonathan Auxier
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
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