The Amulet of Samarkand
by
Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
Corner of White
by
Jaclyn Moriarty
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of
Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of
the Kingdom of
Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is
missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds
and find they can be of
great help to each other.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
by
Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Dreamhunter
by
Elizabeth Knox
In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of
every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is
training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to
carry on his mysterious mission.
Sabriel
by
Garth Nix
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must
journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father
from the Land of the Dead.
Scorpio Races
by
Maggie Stiefvater
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio
Races
, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Terrier
by
Tamora Pierce
When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the
Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural
abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a
murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.
Wee Free Men
by
Terry Pratchett
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
Book images and summaries from
NovelistPlus, available through
Badgerlink.
