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Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it . . . and then when you look at the book again, you find yourself there too . . .
— Cornelia Funke

young adult fantasy and science fiction

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren’t about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves, and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
— Matt Haig
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
— James Baldwin
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
— Neil Gaiman

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This time, Beauty is the Beast, and she wants Prince Charming dead.

At eighteen, Keira is a formidable dragon hunter bent on finding her parents’ killer—a forest dragon she once helped escape her mother’s laboratory. Biggest mistake of her life. Now, Keira pours her thirst for revenge into her mother’s life-long mission: figuring out what a forest dragon’s poison is . . . so she can destroy the murderers for good.

But Keira’s plan begins to unravel when she takes on a life debt to a forest dragon in order to save her brother. Trapped behind enemy lines, Keira’s assumptions about dragons are turned upside down, and she must confront the possibility that everything she knows about dragons is wrong. As she gets closer to discovering the forest dragon’s poison, she must decide if the price of this knowledge is worth the sacrifice.

In this not-quite fairy tale, what the “princess” needs most is a change of heart. But will it change in time for her to save those she’s already sentenced to death—even if the cost is her own freedom?

The hunted Feravolk are counting on a 17 year old dagger-wielding, storm-detecting orphan to save their race. Maybe they should have thought of that before they killed her family

Destiny can pick someone else.

Evil is slipping through the cracks of its prison, and all Soleden trembles in its wake. Yet some would harness that evil to their own ends, and first among them is Idla, the sorceress queen bent on distorting the world.

Only one can stand in her way: Jayden. Upon realizing her mark as the prophesied Deliverer, Jayden conceals herself from her enemies and her Feravolk countrymen. But after the harm the Feravolk caused to her family, she’s loath to rescue the not-so-innocent.

Hiding her mark was never easy, but now that Jayden knows both Queen Idla and the Feravolk are after her, hiding her gift of the Blood Moon will be impossible.

Children of the Blood Moon

Aesthetic board of the Phoenix fire book by S.D. Grimm. Depicts a girl who is trying to wield fire and hunt monsters, but she's running out of time.

Supernatural meets Pride and Prejudice in this YA fantasy about three orphaned and separated phoenix siblings—born (and reborn) to save humanity from being enslaved by monsters—but the monster they’re fighting has beaten them in every past battle, and this time they’re out of rebirths.

 

 When the past comes knocking, think twice about opening the door.

 Orphaned Ava Elderson is a Phoenix—a monster hunter created to protect the human race—but she's without her most valuable asset—knowledge of what she is. Phoenix powers? A mystery. Past memories? Locked away. Worse, she’s unaware of the great evil searching to destroy her and enslave all humanity.

 When Ava’s memories begin to resurface, she finds herself torn between the family she’s always wanted and the love of her life. But she’ll lose it all if she fails to unlock her powerful Phoenix fire before she faces the dark creature on her tail. Failure means dooming what’s left of her entire race to extinction—including her newfound brothers—and leaving the humans helpless—oh, and . . . she’s out of restarts.

Summoner

When Allie wished she could speak to her deceased mother, becoming a ghost wasn’t what she had in mind.

It’s all fun and games until someone gets cursed. When Allie’s best friend dares their group to play a game in a cemetery—something she calls witching—Allie never expects what it might mean for her. When she plays, she doesn’t just find bodies, she summons their souls. But one soul wants more than Allie is willing to give.

And the boy next door could be the key to saving her.

Cody Burkhart, straight from Montana, cowboy-hat wearing, eyes that see into your soul, and missing his left hand, is just the person to help Allie become “normal” again after the death of her mother. And as her newly appointed Guardian, he’s also just the thing to help Allie ward off the vengeful spirit who’s after her soul. Except Cody has his own demons to slay that keep him closed off. But as the full moon approaches, so does their only chance to break the curse, or else Allie might become a ghost forever.