Young Adult Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary

A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSIX STARRED REVIEWSA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut--a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore--about the power of inherited magic and the...

Author: Lance RubinPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.93w x 1.14dISBN: 9780063330368Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/13/2025School Library Journal 10/24/2025 pg. 1Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2025About the AuthorRubin, Lance: - Lance Rubin is the award-winning author of Crying Laughing, Denton Little's Deathdate,...

August and her bonded Monster face a cutthroat competition to advance within their secret society as part of August's mission to avenge her brother in this "thrilling, high-stakes" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) sequel to A Mastery of Monsters. August Black risked everything to find...

A New York Times bestseller!"Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi PicoultIn a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in...

A New York Times bestseller!"Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi Picoult In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall...

The instant bestseller!- New York Times bestseller- USA Today bestseller- Wall Street Journal bestseller "A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more." -NY Journal of Books Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly...

Two starred reviews! Ninth House meets Legendborn in this "bold and bloody" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) first book in a dark academia fantasy series about a teen who's willing to do anything to find her brother--even infiltrate a secret society full of monsters. When...

Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about Black sirens, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism. In a society determined to keep her under lock and key,...

"...compulsively readable and endlessly unexpected...A heartfelt adventure that will leave readers hungry for more." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)He's a book character fated to die. She's the reader determined to save him.Rigby Rhymes wants one thing out of life: a grand adventure, just like the...

"...compulsively readable and endlessly unexpected...A heartfelt adventure that will leave readers hungry for more." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)He's a book character fated to die. She's the reader determined to save him.Rigby Rhymes wants one thing out of life: a grand adventure, just like the...

Featured in USA Today's "10 books similar to 'Harry Potter' for when you need a magical new series" "Lynette Noni is a marvelous and inventive storyteller, whose books are absolutely impossible to put down. I can't wait to see what she comes up with...

The newest novel by the author of Akata Witch and the Marvel comic book series about Shuri, Black Panther's sister! "The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!" --Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Speak A year ago,...

Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York...

Of course Avery Marsh's parents decide to divorce her senior year of high school, but what's way worse, they're shipping Avery across the country to spend the year with her extremely closeted, absentee half-brother Lucas and his secret boyfriend. And it's great that Lucas...

The glitter of Venice's lights hides a dark truth: when the floodwaters rise, no one is safe. Koru knows better than to trust anyone but her own. Hidden deep in the winding twists of Venice's narrow alleys, Koru and her found family must disguise...

In this spellbinding romantasy, an agender teen stumbles into the fae world and finds love and belonging--but at what cost? Eighteen-year-old Cam bounces between houses in Texas and Scotland and has always thought that's why she doesn't feel at home in either place. A...

New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES - At a hidden magical HBCU a teen boy must confront evil spirits, family secrets and tested loyalties. In this haunting finale to the New York Times bestselling Blood at the Root trilogy, bloodlines, betrayal, and legacy collide in...

Out of the pages, he came.Into the pages, she went.But darkness lurks between them.Aurelia's heart is divided between her forbidden feelings for Kayce and her obligations to the Flameheart Order. With one piece of an ancient relic secured, Aurelia and Kayce are closer to...

Athena Reverie lives in a world that is too bright, too noisy, and too germy.Because she believes she is broken and doomed to do poorly in school, she maintains her survival by wearing her noise-canceling headphones, keeping her head down, and doing her best...