Showing 1–13 of 13 books
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After the Snow
In a future where winter lasts nearly all year, Willo returns from hunting to discover his family has been kidnapped. Skilled at surviving in the wild, he sets off from their remote farm, determined to locate them. But when his journey brings him to a corrupt city, full of strange and unfamiliar perils, Willo is swept up by events he doesn't fully understand.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2013
- ISBN: 9780312641696
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Ash
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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Beautiful Creatures
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Charm & Strange
Drew, also known as “Win,” has been isolated in a New Hampshire boarding school since he was 12. Though he excels at both academics and athletics, he is concealing a horrific secret that has driven him to the brink of madness. With the help of his friends, can Win confront the beast within him before it's too late?
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A Curse Dark As Gold
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.
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The Everafter
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2010
- ISBN: 9780061776793
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Elisa bears the Godstone. She is a chosen one. What she is chosen to do is unclear, but perhaps her journey to marry the king of a neighboring country in the midst of war will provide some of the answers. Carson weaves together religion, politics, prophecy, and more in this fast-paced fantasy that brings Elisa to a destiny no one could have anticipated.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2012
- ISBN: 9780062026484
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Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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Guardian of the Dead
Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.
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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
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Seraphina
When the death of a royal prince threatens the fragile peace between humans and dragons in Goredd, court musician Seraphina is drawn into the murder investigation. But even as she aids Prince Lucian in his mission to uncover the murderer, Seraphina conceals a dangerous secret of her own—her half-human, half-dragon heritage.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2013
- ISBN: 9780375866562
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The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
Owen is training to be a dragon slayer, a crucial job in a world where dragons bring death and destruction. With help from their friends and family, Owen and his bard Siobhan seek the source of a growing dragon threat.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2015
- ISBN: 9781467710664
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Ava Lavender, a girl born with wings, narrates a modern folktale featuring four generations of women in her star-crossed family.- Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015, William C. Morris Debut YA Award 2015
- ISBN: 9780763665661