Teen novels that feature fantastic creatures.
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Clay by David Almond The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy’s supernatural powers. Catalog Link |
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Stoneheart (The Stoneheart Trilogy) by Charlie Fletcher When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient “live” statues and solve a dangerous riddle. Catalog Link |
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The Dreamwalker's Child by Steve Voake After being hit by a car Sam Palmer finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth’s ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a lethal virus spread by mosquitoes. Catalog Link |
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Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith Three alienated teenagers are drawn to a strange outdoor concert in the woods outside of Seattle, where they discover that they possess magical powers and that their destinies are intertwined. Catalog Link |
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Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint Fourteen-year-old T.J. and her new friend, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth, a six-inch-high “Little” with a big chip on her shoulder, help one another as T.J. tries to adjust to her family’s move from a farm to the big city and Elizabeth tries to make her own way in the world. Catalog Link |
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The Chaos Code by Justin Richards Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code—rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis—from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world. Catalog Link |
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Creature Tech by Doug TenNapel Catalog Link |
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The New Policeman by Kate Thompson Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. Catalog Link |
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1) by Eoin Colfer When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. Catalog Link |
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The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan 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. Catalog Link |