Fantasy



//The Last Knight // Michael wants nothing more than to be //Sir// Michael. But the knighthood has been dead for two hundred years, his squire is a rogue named Fisk, and his damsel in distress turns out to be an escaped murderess. As Michael says, "The life of a knight errant wasn't quite what I had expected." However, when Michael and Fisk set out on a quest involving angry sheriffs, cudgel-crewers, and magical beasts, the knight and his squire could finally live out their own legendary adventure--or die trying.
 * by Hilari Bell **

//Chime // Briony often escapes to the swamp, where she talks to the Old Ones. But only witches can see the Old Ones, and in her village, witches are sentenced to death.
 * by Franny Billingsley **

//A Curse Dark as Gold // When Charlotte Miller inherits her family's troubled woolen mill, she is determined to make it a success-- and to ignore the rumors of the curse that haunts it. But strange accidents frighten the workers and threaten to sink the business. One day, a mysterious man named Jack Spinner arrives and offers his assistance. "You'd have to be able to make gold appear from thin air to be much help to us now, I'm afraid," Charlotte says. With straw, not air, Jack Spinner obliges. Though he hasn't yet named his ultimate price.
 * by Elizabeth C. Bunce **

//Graceling // Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away. . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone//.//
 * by Kristin Cashore **

//**The Demon King **// When 16-year-old Han Alister and his Clan friend Dancer encounter three underage wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea, he has no idea that this event will precipitate a cascade of disasters that will threaten everything he cares about. Han takes an amulet from one of the wizards, Micah Bayar, to prevent him from using it against them. Only later does he learn that it has an evil history—it once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago.
 * by Cinda Williams Chima **

//Entwined // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her. . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing. . . it's taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation. Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room todance in his silver forest. But there is a cost. The Keeper likes to //keep// things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Heather Dixon **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Eon: Dragoneye Reborn // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">For years, Eon--formerly Eona--has been training to become a Dragoneye, learning how to manipulate Hua, the natural energy that exists in all things, while concealing her true identity as a girl. But when her dreams come true and the Mirror Dragon, the most powerful dragon in the energy world, selects her as a Dragoneye, she realizes that she has underestimated the cost of her deception. Not only would her secret, if exposed, cost her her life, but it could also be used to bring down the Emperor.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Alison Goodman **

//**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Before I Fall **// <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Lauren Oliver <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life? Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. Living the last day of her life seven times during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Shiver // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">When Grace was little, a yellow-eyed wolf saved her life. Years later, she meets Sam, a teenage boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. He's the wolf who saved her; Grace knows it. And now it's her turn to save him--because each werewolf gets only so many seasons as a human, and this fall might be Sam's last.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Maggie Stiefvater **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Scorpio Races // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Once a year, the water horses emerge from the sea, majestic and carnivorous. Every November, men risk their lives to race them. This year, a girl will, too.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Maggie Stiefvater **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Daughter of Smoke and Bone // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Karou’s past has long been hidden from her. Now, as war separates her from those she loves, a beautiful, haunted angel helps her discover the incredible truth.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Laini Taylor **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver’s license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she’s dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn’t want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one?
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Elsewhere //**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Gabrielle Zevin **