Can't wait for the release of The Golden Compass movie? Check this selection of fantasy books out while you're waiting!
Black, Holly
Tithe: 16-year old Kay has always known her life is a bit different - she spends a lot of time looking after an alcoholic rock star mom and counts among her childhood friends several fairies. Things really become strange, however, when Kaye and her mother move to her grandmother's house in New Jersey to escape a murderous boyfriend.
YA BLACK
Dale, Anna
Whispering to Witches: Joe knows his Christmas is going to be anything but merry - his father has to go away and Joe has to spend the holidays with his mom, stepdad, and half sister Esme. On the way to meet his family, Joe somehow gets off at the wrong train station, and before he realizes what is happening lands himself in a witches' coven and is wrapped up in an otherworldly conspiracy.
YA DALE
Dunkle, Clare B.
By These Ten Bones: When the young wood carver first appears in Maddie's village with the old man, he refuses to speak to anyone. But Maddie finds out Paul can speak, and soon after she learns his terrible secret. Will Maddie be able to save Paul from himself?
YA DUNKLE
Gardner, Sally
I, Coriander: Coriander lives a life of happiness and wonder until the horrible day her mother is suddenly stricken ill. Pressured by well-meaning friends, her father marries a "good" Puritan woman, only to discover she is anything but. Will Coriander be able to find the magic locked inside her and save herself from both an evil fairy queen and an extremely wicked stepmother?
YA GARDNER
Marr, Melissa
Wicked Lovely: 17-year old Aislinn knows faeries are real - unlike the majority of teenagers, she sees them everywhere she goes. But until the Summer King notices her and decides she must be Queen, life has been somewhat normal. Now Aislinn must choose between "normal" and the end of the world as she knows it.
YA MARR
Pratchett, Terry
Wintersmith: Almost 13-year old Tiffany Aching is training to be a witch when she catches the eye (if he has one, that is) of the Wintersmith - the element that creates winter. Sonn the Wintersmith is convinced he is in love with Tiffany, and won't let winter end until she becomes his. What is a witch to do?
YA PRATCHETT
Pullman, Phillip
The Golden Compass: Lyra Belacqua lives in an alternate universe where all humans have daemons, animals who are extensions of their humans' personalities. Raised by the Scholars at Jordan College at Oxfrord, Lyra is not overly studious but is extremely curious. When her best friend disappears and her uncle Lord Asriel is imprisoned in the far north, Lyra decides to run away and discovers the horrible experiments that are being done on children in the arctic wasteland.
YA PULLMAN
Sherman, Delia
Changeling: Neef is a teenaged changeling living in New York Between with her fairy godmother Astris. Neef lives a fairly normal life (for a changeling), until the day she breaks a Fairy Law. In order to survive Neef must accomplish the tasks set for her by the Green Lady. Is Neef up to it?
YA SHERMAN
Thompson, Kate
The New Policeman: 15-year old J.J. Liddy knows that there's never enough time - time to practice his music, get his homework done, live his life. But when he discovers that time is actually being leached away from our world to that of the fairies, he realizes he must stop it and at the same time get to the bottom of his family's secrets.
YA THOMPSON
Wooding, Chris
Poison: When 16-year old Poison's sister is kidnapped by the phaeries and a changeling is put in her place, Poison takes matters into her own hands and leaves the marsh she's lived in her entire life to find her. Along the way she collects a band of followers and finds what her strengths truly are.
YA WOODING
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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