Fantasy Fiction for Teens

The Book of Three	Alexander, Lloyd	YA F Alexander
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, sets out on a dangerous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
Abarat	Barker, Clive	YA F Barker
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
The Lost Years of Merlin	Barron, T. A.	YA F Barron
A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.
The Last Unicorn	Beagle, Peter S.	YA F Beagle
A fantasy classic about the unicorn who finds out she is the last unicorn in the world and sets out to find the others.
Dragon's Keep	Carey, Janet Lee	YA F Carey
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Graceling	Cashore, Kristin	YA F Cashore
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.
Fire Bringer	Clement-Davis, David	YA F Clement-Davies
After his father is murdered, a fawn named Rannoch must flee the herd because the oak leaf blaze on his forehead marks him as the prophesied enemy of the antlerless Lord of the Herd.
Over Sea, Under Stone	Cooper, Susan	YA F Cooper
Three children on vacation in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript that sends them on a dangerous quest.
Foundling	Cornish, D.M.	YA F Cornish
Rossamund sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.
So You Want to be a Wizard	Duane, Diane	YA F Duane
A library book on wizardry guides 13-year-old Nita into another dimension.
Once Upon a Marigold	Ferris, Jean	YA F Ferris
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
Inkheart	Funke, Carnelia	YA F Funke
Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
The Graveyard Book	Gaiman, Neil	YA F Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Princess of the Midnight Ball	George, Jessica Day	YA F George
Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, the King of Westfalia’s daughters must dance at the Midnight Ball every night to pay their mother’s debt to a wicked sorcerer and their father offers a reward to any prince able to solve the mystery of the girls’ nightly disappearance.
Dark Lord of Derkholm	Jones, Diana Wynne	YA F Jones
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.
The Faerie Path	Jones, Frewin	YA F Jones
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.
The Book of Earth (the Dragon Quartet)	Kellogg, M. Bradley	YA F Kellogg
Erde, the daughter of a powerful Lord, flees her father's castle to find Earth, the dragon, and its mage, the only beings that can save her world.
A Wrinkle in Time	L'Engle, Madeleine	YA F L'Engle
Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared.
Keturah and Lord Death	Leavitt, Martine	YA F Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Ever	Levine, Gail Carson	YA F Levine
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.
Wildwood Dancing	Marillier, Juliet	YA F Marillier
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
Dragonsong	McCaffrey, Anne	YA F McCaffrey
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards.
Moorchild	McGraw, Eloise Jarvis	YA F McGraw
A changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
Spindle's End	McKinley, Robin	YA F McKinley
Princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia and then taken by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country.
Sabriel	Nix, Garth	YA F 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.
Eragon	Paolini, Christopher	YA F Paolini
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage 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.
Sandry's Book	Pierce, Tamora	YA F Pierce
Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.
The Wee Free Men	Pratchett, Terry	YA F Pratchet
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.
The Lightning Thief	Riordan, Rick	YA F Riordan
A clever concept drives Riordan's highly charged children's book debut (the first in a series): the Greek Gods still rule, though now from a Mt. Olympus on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building, and their offspring, demigods, live among human beings. Narrator Percy Jackson thinks he's just another troubled 12-year-old, until he vaporizes his math teacher, learns his best friend, Grover, is a satyr and narrowly escapes a minotaur to arrive at Camp Half-Blood.
I Am Mordred	Springer, Nancy	YA F Springer
When Mordred learns the identity of his father, he fights the fate that determines that he kill the good and gracious king.
The Amulet of Samarkand	Stroud, Jonathan	YA F 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.
Wormwood	Taylor, G.P.	YA F Taylor
In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta, struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blake's possession that would enable them to carry out an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role.
Switchers	Thompson, Kate	YA F Thompson
An Irish girl saves the world through her ability to switch into animal form.
The Hobbit	Tolkein, J.R.R.	YA F Tolkein
The hobbit Bilbo Baggins is chosen by the wizard Gandalf to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
The Queen of Attolia	Turner, Megan Whelan	YA F Turner
Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.
Never Trust a Dead Man	Velde, Vivian Vande	YA F Vande Velde
Wrongly convicted of murder and sealed in a tomb with the dead man, Selwyn enlists the help of a witch to find the true killer.
Dealing With Dragons	Wrede, Patricia C.	YA F Wrede
A princess goes to live with a group of dragons and becomes involved with fighting against wizards who want to steal the dragon's kingdom.
Wizard's Hall	Yolen, Jane	YA F Yolen
A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself.