Fantastic Young Adult Fantasy

Learn these words from the first installment of Sabaa Tahir's bestselling fantasy series. This engrossing novel alternates between the perspectives of a slave and a soldier in order to explore the struggle for freedom.

When her Brooklyn neighborhood is threatened, Sierra must master and protect an ancestral form of magic called shadowshaping.

In the first novel in Adeyemi's fantasy series, Zélie attempts to overthrow a repressive king and bring magic back to her land.

In this book, Leigh Bardugo introduces six young criminals who band together to pull off a heist that could destroy them — and the world.

Jacob travels to Wales to find the mysterious children's home from his grandfather's stories—but what he discovers is stranger than he could have imagined.

In this fantasy novel, a young assassin competes to win her freedom.

Growing up in Nigeria, twelve-year-old Sunny feels like an outsider — but when she learns that she has magical powers, she must work with other magical children to defeat a powerful witch.

Ash is under the thumb of a heartless stepmother and torn between a promise to the menacing fairy Sidhean and her feelings for Kaisa, the king's huntress. Learn these words from Malinda Lo's lyrical retelling of the Cinderella story.

In this prequel to Ash, two 17-year-old girls, Kaede and Taisin, must fight unearthly creatures and their own feelings to save their kingdom. Learn these words that Malinda Lo uses to build an enchanting fantasy world.

In the second book of the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, Zélie and Amari must fight the monarchy in order to protect practitioners of magic.

In Mare's world, people are divided by the color of their blood. When red-blooded Mare displays magical abilities belonging to those outside her caste, she is welcomed into the circles of the silver-blooded elites — but where do her loyalties truly lie?

Camellia is a Belle, someone with the power to make the colorless inhabitants of Orléans beautiful. As Camellia jockeys for power in the royal court, she learns dark secrets about both her powers and her world.

Seventeen-year-old Jude, who was kidnapped by a faerie soldier when she was a child, fights for a position of power in the faerie kingdom. This is the first book in the Folk of the Air trilogy.

Z, a witch-turned-zombie, and Aysel, a werewolf, befriend one another when they are shunned by members of their community.

The American Civil War ends abruptly when fallen soldiers begin to rise from the dead and attack the living. Like many Native American and African American children, Jane is conscripted into a combat school to learn to fight these so-called "shamblers." But when Jane heads to the West to search for a missing girl, she encounters dangers even more perilous than zombies.

In this sweeping fantasy novel, librarian Lazlo Strange is recruited to help save the mysterious lost city of Weep.

After her mother goes missing, Alice journeys to a dark fairytale world in the hopes of finding her.

Alex hates being a bruja, a witch — but when her family disappears, she must embrace her powers in order to save them.

In an illiterate society, Sefia begins to discover the power of the written word as she attempts to rescue her kidnapped aunt—and learn the truth about her parents’ assassination. Practice these words from the first book in the Sea of Ink and Gold trilogy.

In this fantasy novel, Tristran Thorn ventures into the land of Faerie to find a fallen star for his beloved.

In this fantasy novel, a young and powerful wizard named Ged must defeat a dark creature of his own creation.