Fantasy for Teens
A staff selection of fantasy titles for teens. (Updated July 2021.)
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Lobizona
Being undocumented means never feeling safe. Discovering you are half magical and and falling into a magical school where you learn they want you dead means deciding to stand up be who you are regardless of your gender, your immigration status, or your lineage.
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A Gift for A Ghost
Two young women separated by 160 years with similar aspirations for artistic expression, one wants to start a punk rock band and one wants to write gothic poetry, have entwined destines where the actions of one sets the other free.
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The Iron Raven
Puck, like you have never seen him, telling his own story for once! He and his friends are fighting an evil so dark it feeds on hidden anger turning it into hatred and turning everyone against their allies. First in a series, spin off from the popular Iron Fey series. MS
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The Bookweaver's Daughter
At the center of this excellent debut by an 18-year-old writer, is the bond of friendships. Two young woman, one a peasant, one hiding secret magical powers, must flee for their lives from a royal family bent on maintaining control at all costs. This quest tale about finding your voice and power, has lots of action, fight scenes, and many well developed characters. MS
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M.F.K
Graphic novel set in a desert land where Abbie, who just wants to be alone on her quest, is nursed back to health in a village needing help standing up to magical bullies. Turns out she is more than just an average teenage girl. MS
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Miss Meteor
Lita Perez is a little spacey - from outer space that is - and she is disappearing. She knows she must win the Miss Meteor pageant to stay human, but girls like her do not win... unless you have Chicky Quintanilla and her sisters on your side. Friendship, family, LGBTQIA+ romance, and hijinks make Miss Meteor a fun, heart warming read. MS
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Pistouvi
A girl and her best friend, a fox, explore their strange, dreamy, world and what friendship means as they grow older. MS
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A Song Below Water
Sirens are feared and fetishized. Sirens are Black women. Being Black in Portland, OR is not easy, but secretly being an unregistered siren is deadly. Set in a backdrop of #BLM uprisings, Tavia and Effie are play cousins trying to force the world to accept and make room for their race, gender, and true Black Girl Magic. MS
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Beasts Made of Night
The aki slay and eat the sin beasts of the rich and powerful, bearing all their pain and guilt until they are slain or go mad. They live in poverty, shunned and abused until Taj, a strong young aki, uncovers a plot to destroy the city and stands up to fight for his life and all the downtrodden. First in a thrilling new series MS
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Given
When the king of Yirba develops a mysterious illness, Yenni travels off island to see what she can learn to save her father. She experiences racism, sexism and life threatening danger because of her powerful magical abilities. It seems no one is her friend except Wyesh, an infuriating and handsome dragon-shifter who after one sniff insists she is his given.
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