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Popular Fantasy books for Teens
- Nick of Time by Ted Bell. 2008.
Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.
- Tithe: a Modern Fairy Tale by Holly Black. 2002.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
- Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan. 2003.
Henry finds his life taking on a whole new dimension when he and old Mr. Fogarty become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae, who has been sent from the faerie world to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night. (#1 in Faerie Wars Chronicles series)
- Silverboy by N.M. Browne. 2007.
When Tommo, about fifteen years old, runs away from an apprenticeship as a spellgrinder, he begs for sanctuary and is forced to attempt an impossible journey to leave his country, when help arrives in unexpected forms.
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore. 2008.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
- The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima. 2008.
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards. (#1 in Heir series)
- Ever by Gail Levine. 2008.
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.
- Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. 2007.
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
- Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez. 2006.
Duke, a werewolf, and Earl, a vampire, have stopped for a quick bite to eat when Loretta, the owner, offers them $100 to rid her diner of zombies.
- A Fairy’s Guide to Understanding Humans by Margaret Meacham. 2008.
Gretta, who is making strides in her fairy godmother training, tries to help Morgan fit in at her new school as research for a book about her interactions with humans, but her own boyfriend problems get in the way.
- The Hunter’s Moon by O.R. Melling. 2005.
Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from the United States, set out to find a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little people. (#1 in Chronicles of Faerie series)
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini. 2003.
In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. (#1 in the Inheritance series)
- Birth of the Pack by Petru Popescu. 2007.
When sixteen-year-old Lily and her friends start a girl's soccer club at their South Pasadena high school and name their team The Weregirls, they discover unusual things about themselves as they become drawn into the age-old struggle between good and evil. (#1 in Weregirls series)
- Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. 2006.
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
- Alcatraz Smedry versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson. 2007.
On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
- The Sorceress by Michael Scott. 2009.
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
- I am Morgan le Fey by Nancy Springer. 2001.
In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has magic powers and links to the faerie world.
- Blackbringer by Laini Taylor. 2007.
Magpie Windwitch, faerie, devil hunter, and granddaughter of the West Wind, must defeat an ancient evil creature named the Blackbringer, who has escaped from his bottle and threatens to unmake all of creation.
- Impossible: a Novel by Nancy Werlin. 2008.
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.
- Why I Let My Hair Grow by Maryrose Wood. 2007.
On a bike trip in Ireland, sixteen-year-old Morgan is transformed by the others on the tour and by her visits to the past, where she is believed to be the legendary half-goddess Morganne, sent to help end a faery curse.
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