Sonja Dewing’s Daughter of the Black Flag reimagines the classic adventure novel Treasure Island with a focus on female characters and a dash of the fantastical. Isolated from her peers and trapped by her lack of options as a woman, Chen goes for a radical...

Sofia Nova brings us endearing fantasy fiction in Maradonia and the Guardians of the Portal. On their way home from a trip to see their family, siblings Maya and Joey Swanson are caught in a storm at sea. When the ocean wins the battle against...

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...

Nothing could have prepared the Ollivaros siblings—Nachton, Amelie, Cecilie, and Ewan—for what awaited them at an Atlanta airport they were rushing to as they were late for their flight. Amid the chaos of a hasty check-in, the four siblings lose their parents and unknowingly enter...

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...

In Ari Magnusson's Knights Without Ceremony: Insurrection, Gorum is just coming out of war, and the kingdom’s peace is shaky and uncertain. The king allows boys from all classes to train as knights, which is a new decree. Ettan, a poor thirteen-year-old who looks after...

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...

Mancala Moon by Asa Bowers is a fantasy about breaking a cursed cycle of pain. The story is about grief, the overshadowing presence and influence of ancestral ties, and inheritance. Micah is a 21-year-old struggling with the loss of his parents. He can’t come to...