In Dan Rice’s The Bane of Dragons, Allison lives between two worlds because she has the blood of a human father and a skaag mother, a serpentine species that serves a vast dragon empire spanning many universes. When a rogue skaag appears in Japan, Dr....

The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mother and a younger brother who is involved in street...

The Name and the Key by Kristina Elyse Butke is about Lily Bellamy, a teenage girl whose world slowly falls apart after her mother vanishes and is later found drowned in the marshlands near their home. Lily has grown up in the shadow of her...

Lee Alexander’s The Fortuitous Few: A Chronicle of Courage follows a small group of people who end up together in the city of Kelrabith, each just trying to get by in their own way. Rashe, a dragonkin bard, is traveling with his close friend Adran...

The Hollow King by Aaryan Mehta is a young adult fantasy centered on Teagan Spawn, a teenage girl dealing with loss. After finding a hidden alley and a strange library filled with unfinished books, Teagan opens a book called The Hollow King and is pulled...

The Door, the Key and the Kingdom by Emily-Jane Hills Orford introduces Anne, aged 17, who was raised by her grandmother in present-day Canada, as her mother had to work long hours. She was introduced to a world of fantasy by her loving grandmother, who...

The Thirteenth Bell by R.D. Thorne is set in Lowmere, a town by the sea that is always blanketed in fog. Lowmere survives because of a dark bargain: each New Moon, a thirteenth bell rings, and someone vanishes. Ada Thorne, marked by the curse, survived...

Marlena Frank introduces a touch of fantasy in The Sea Witch Follows. We meet Finn from Leekston, located right on the Atlantic Ocean. It’s summer vacation, and Finn is crabbing with his father aboard the boat. This is what Finn truly loves—the peaceful rhythm of...

One continent, two princesses, and three enchanted artifacts, pitted against an ancient foe. Elliana broke the Dark, Derya wrote on water, and now her father expects the impossible: to find Cetus’s Crown, lost a millennium ago. In The Girl Who Shattered the Sea by Evelyn...

Terra Tamers: Alpha by Brian Petrilli is an imaginative and fast-paced YA sci-fi adventure that plunges readers into a world forever changed by technology gone wrong. Humanity is hanging on by a thread in a floating city named Sojourn while mysterious AIs and dangerous holographic...