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J FIC ALE

Alexander, Lloyd. The book of three. rev. ed. New York : H.

Holt, c1999. Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous

oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save

Prydain from the forces of evil.

J FIC ANDERSON

Anderson, M. T. Whales on stilts. 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt

Children's Books/Harcourt, Inc., c2005. Racing against the

clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends,

Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's

conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.

J FIC CARMAN

Carman, Patrick. The Dark Hills divide. 1st Orchard Books ed.

New York : Orchard Books, 2005. When she finds the key to a

secret passageway leading out of the walled city of

Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish

to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie

beyond the wall.

J FIC COLLINS

Collins, Suzanne. Gregor the Overlander. 1st ed. New York :

Scholastic Press, 2003. When eleven-year-old Gregor and his

two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground

world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats,

rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by

ancient prophecy.

J FIC DELANEY

Delaney, Joseph, 1945-. Revenge of the witch. 1st American ed.

New York : Greenwillow Books, 2005. Young Tom, the seventh

son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the

village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from

"ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.".

J FIC DITERLIZZI

DiTerlizzi, Tony. The field guide. New York : Simon & Schuster

Books for Young Readers, 2003. When the Grace children go

to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house,

they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures

and begin to have some unusual experiences.

J FIC DUPRAU

DuPrau, Jeanne. The city of Ember. New York : Random House,

2003. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on

Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her

decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown

Regions.

J FIC FLANAGAN

Flanagan, John (John Anthony). The ruins of Gorlan. 1st

American ed. New York : Philomel Books, 2005. When

fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he

becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger

Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

J FIC FUNKE

Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The Thief Lord. 1st American ed. New

York : Scholastic, 2002. Two brothers, having run away from

the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a

detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter

with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord.".

J FIC FUNKE

Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Dragon rider. New York : Scholastic,

2004. After learning that humans are headed toward his

hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a

brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary

valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and

unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade

the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.

J FIC FUNKE

Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Inkspell. 1st American ed. Frome,

Somerset [England] : New York : Chicken House ; Scholastic,

2005. When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can

read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid

behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back

into the enchanted book.

J FIC GAIMAN

Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins,

c2002. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a

mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet

disturbingly different from her own, where she must

challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her

parents, and the souls of three others.

J FIC JONES

Jones, Diana Wynne. The Pinhoe egg. 1st American ed. New York

: Greenwillow Books, c2006. Two powerful young enchanters,

Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being

trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as

friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the

process, right some old wrongs.

J FIC KERR

Kerr, Philip. The Akhenaten adventure : Children of the Lamp.

1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2004. When

twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they

are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends

them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo

where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary

powers.

J FIC KERR

Kerr, Philip. The Blue Djinn of Babylon. 1st ed. New York :

Orchard Books, 2006. Twelve-year-old twins Philippa and

John have more adventures when they become involved in an

international adventure involving the Blue Djinn, the

supreme arbiter of all djinn.

J FIC LEVINE

Levine, Gail Carson. Fairest. 1st ed. New York, NY :

HarperCollins, c2006. In a land where beauty and singing

are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile

her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and

learns to accept herself for who she truly is.

J FIC LEWIS

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. The chronicles of

Narnia. 1st HarperCollins ed. New York : HarperCollins,

1994. Library has chronological order: bk. 1. The

magician's nephew -- bk. 2. The lion, the witch, and the

wardrobe -- bk. 3. The horse and his boy -- bk. 4. Prince

Caspian bk. 5. The voyage of the Dawn Treader -- bk. 6. The

silver chair. -- bk. 7. The last battle. Order in which

they were published: 1. The lion, the witch, and the

wardrobe -- 2. Prince Caspian -- 3. The voyage of the Dawn

Treader -- 4. The silver chair -- 5. The horse and his boy

-- 6. The magician's nephew -- 7. The last battle.

J FIC RIORDAN

Riordan, Rick. The lightning thief. 1st ed. New York : Miramax

Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005. After learning

that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of

the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for

demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest

to prevent a war between the gods.

J FIC RIORDAN

Riordan, Rick. The sea of monsters. 1st ed. New York : Miramax

Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2006. Demi-god Percy

Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of

Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a

secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as

Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.

J FIC SLE

Sleator, William. The duplicate. 1st ed. New York : Dutton,

c1988. Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine

that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates

himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the

duplicate turns against him.

J FIC VANDEVELDE

Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir apparent. 1st ed. San Diego :

Harcourt, 2002. While playing a total immersion virtual

reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old

Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the

equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the

game quickly or be damaged herself.

J FIC VER

Verne, Jules. 20,000 leagues under the sea. Chicago: Children's

Press, 1968.

J FIC WINTER

Winter, Laurel. Growing wings. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

When wings start to appear on her back, eleven-year-old

Linnet begins to understand some of her mother's strange

behavior, but it isn't until she finds herself at a remote

house in Montana with others who also have--or had--wings

that she can really come to terms with her situation.

NEW YA FIC PATTOU

Pattou, Edith. East. Orlando : Harcourt, 2003. A young woman

journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white

bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.

YA FIC BARRON

Barron, T. A. The lost years of Merlin. Philomel Books, c1996.

A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past

washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name

after a series of fantastic adventures.

YA FIC CAREY

Carey, Janet Lee. Dragon's keep. 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt,

c2007. In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin,

fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first

Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to

fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the

dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of

her mother's dark secrets.

YA FIC CHABON

Chabon, Michael. Summerland. 1st ed. New York : Miramax

Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2002. Ethan Feld, the

worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds

himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of

fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.

YA FIC COL

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. 1st American ed. New York :

Hyperion Books For Children, c2001. 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.

YA FIC COLFER

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl : the arctic incident. 1st American

ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2002. Artemis

is at boarding school when he receives an urgent e-mail from

Russia. It's from a man he never thought he'd see again: his

father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia and

pleads for Artemis's help.

YA FIC COO

Cooper, Susan. The dark is rising. [1st ed.]. New York :

Atheneum, 1975, c1973.

YA FIC FARMER

Farmer, Nancy, 1941-. The Sea of Trolls. 1st ed. New York :

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004. After Jack becomes

apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy

are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of

King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading

Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the

trolls.

YA FIC FISHER

Fisher, Catherine, 1957-. Snow-walker. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, 2004. The snow-walker Gudrun came from

the swirling mists and icy depths beyond the edge of the

world to rule the Jarl's people with fear and sorcery, but a

small band of outlaws will fight to the death to restore the

land to its rightful leader.

YA FIC HAD

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout. New York : Simon &

Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. "It isn't natural

for you to be younger than your great-grandchildren. We

messed around with nature, and we shouldn't have. Melly and

Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th

century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die,

they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and

are given an injection to make them grow younger...".

YA FIC HALAM

Halam, Ann. Dr. Franklin's island. New York : Wendy Lamb Books,

c2002. When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean,

three science students are left stranded on a tropical

island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing

horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of

animal genes.

YA FIC HILL

Hill, Stuart. The cry of the Icemark. New York : The Chicken

House/Scholastic, c2005.

YA FIC JAC

Jacques, Brian. Redwall. New York : Philomel Books, c1986.

When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered

by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous

hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the

legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is

convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the

enemy.

YA FIC JAC

Jacques, Brian. Lord Brocktree. 1st American ed. New York :

Philomel Books, 2000. The mountain of Salamandastron needs

the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the

form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.

YA FIC JON

Jones, Diana Wynne. Dark Lord of Derkholm. New York :

Greenwillow Books, 1998. Derk, an unconventional wizard,

and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a

stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the

tyrannical Mr. Chesney.

YA FIC JON

Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1986. Eldest of three sisters in a land

where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is

resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch

turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the

castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

YA FIC LARBALESTIER

Larbalestier, Justine. Magic or madness. New York : Razorbill,

c2005. From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she

believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is

magically transported to New York City, where she discovers

that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.

YA FIC LEG

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. A wizard of earthsea. Berkeley,

Calif. : Parnassus Press, [c1968]. A boy grows to manhood

while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the

world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

YA FIC LOW

Lowry, Lois. The giver. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Given

his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas

becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in

his community and discovers the terrible truth about the

society in which he lives.

YA FIC MCK

McKinley, Robin. The hero and the crown. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1984. Aerin, with the guidance of the

wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the

birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and

a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

YA FIC MEYER

Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. Twilight. New York : Little, Brown and

Co., 2005. When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to

live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an

exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an

overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not

wholly human.

YA FIC PATTERSON

Patterson, James, 1947-. Maximum Ride : the angel experiment.

1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2005. After the mutant

Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the

"birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation,

take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to

understand their own origins and purpose.

YA FIC PFEFFER

Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-. Life as we knew it. 1st ed.

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006. Through journal entries

sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to

survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide

tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

YA FIC PIERCE

Pierce, Tamora. Trickster's choice. 1st ed. New York : Random

House, 2003. Alianne must call forth her mother's courage

and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles

in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous

conspiracy.

YA FIC PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men. 1st ed. New York, NY :

HarperCollinsPublishers, c2003. A young witch-to-be named

Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of

six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward

off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

YA FIC PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. A hat full of sky. 1st ed. New York :

HarperCollins, c2004. Tiffany Aching, a young

witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as

she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the

six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the

greatest witch in the world.

YA FIC PRATCHETT

Pratchett, Terry. Wintersmith. 1st ed. New York :

HarperTempest, 2006. When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching

accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens

the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires

the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding,

sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.

YA FIC ROWLING

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. New York

: Scholastic, Inc., c2005.

YA FIC STROUD

Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. 1st ed. New York :

Hyperion Books For Children, c2003. 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.

YA FIC TURNER

Turner, Megan Whalen. The thief. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c1996. Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a

thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote

temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious

stone.

YA FIC TURNER

Turner, Megan Whalen. The king of Attolia. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c2006. Eugenides, still known as a Thief

of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives

to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his

new bride, their queen.

YA FIC VANDEVELDE

Vande Velde, Vivian. The book of Mordred. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 2005. As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the

five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna, newly widowed of the

village-wizard Toland, is abducted by knights who leave

their barn burning and their only servant dead.

YA FIC WESTERFELD

Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps : a novel. New York : Razorbill, 2005.

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes

vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has

unknowingly infected.

YA FIC WESTERFELD

Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York :

Simon Pulse, 2005.

YA FIC WESTERFELD

Westerfeld, Scott. Specials. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York :

Simon Pulse, c2006.

YA FIC WOODING

Wooding, Chris, 1977-. The haunting of Alaizabel Cray. 1st

Orchard Books ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2004, 2001. As

Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and

mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the

terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become

entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or

possessed.

YA FIC WREDE

Wrede, Patricia C., 1953-. Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The

enchanted chocolate pot : being the correspondence of two

young ladies of quality regarding various magical scandals

in London and the country. 1st Magic Carpet Books ed.

Orlando : Magic Carpet Books, 2004, c2003. In 1817 in

England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country

and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other

informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when

they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.

YA FIC ZAHN

Zahn, Timothy. Dragon and soldier : the second dragonback

adventure. 1st ed. New York : Starscape, 2004.

Fourteen-year-old Jack, who is the human host in a symbiotic

relationship with a dragon warrior named Draycos, joins a

mercenary outfit to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy

to wipe out Draycos's race.

YA FIC ZEVIN

Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus

and Giroux, 2005. The Nile -- At sea -- Curtis Jest -- In

memory of Elizabeth Marie Hall -- The book of the dead --

Welcome to elsewhere -- A long drive home -- Waking -- A

circle and a line -- Last words -- Sightseeing -- Lucky cab

-- The big dive -- Sadie -- The well -- A piece of string --

Owen Welles takes a dive -- Thanksgiving -- A mystery -- Liz

in love -- Arrivals -- The sneaker clause -- To earth -- At

the bottom of the ocean, in the land between elsewhere and

earth -- Restoration -- Antique lands -- Time passes -- Two

weddings -- The change -- Amadou -- Childhood -- Birth --

What Liz thinks. After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by

a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both

like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new

status and figure out how to "live.".