Renegade Magic

Author	Merrie Haskell
ISBN	0062008137

Merrie Haskell’s middle-grade fantasy novel Princess Curse is an imaginative retelling of the fairy tales The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Beauty and the Beast.
 
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Sylvania, the prince offers a fabulous reward to anyone who cures the curse that forces...

Author	Jessica Day George
ISBN	1599906457

A castle that is constantly rearranging itself, and a young royal family sworn to protect it... Celie, Rolf, and their beloved Castle Glower are back in this exciting sequel.

Strange things are afoot in Castle Glower: new rooms, corridors, and even stables keep arriving, even when they aren't...

Author	Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
ISBN	1599907259

In Abby’s world, magic isn’t anything special: it’s a part of everyday life. So when Abby learns that she has zero magical abilities, she’s branded an “Ord”—ordinary, bad luck, and quite possibly a danger to society.

The outlook for kids like Abby isn’t bright. Many are cast...

Author	Sarah Prineas
ISBN	0061921033

“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.”With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt...

Author	Caroline Stevermer
ISBN	0803734670

Young Frederick is plucked from an orphanage to be a footboy for a wizard named Lord Schofield in Victorian England. Is his uncanny ability to tie perfect knots and render boots spotless a sign of his own magical talent, or the work of Billy Bly, the brownie who has been secretly watching over him since...

Author	Angie Frazier
ISBN	0545208629

Can Suzanna Snow solve the case before it's too late?

A girl's gone missing. Can Suzanna solve the crime? It is 1905 and young Suzanna works at her family's inn in Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, where she is trained to be a well-mannered hostess and a charming lady. Suzanna has other ideas for her...

Author	Shawn Thomas Odyssey
ISBN	1606841432

Oona Crate was born to be the Wizard’s apprentice, but she has another destiny in mind. Despite possessing the rare gift of natural magic, Oona wants to be a detective.

Eager for a case to prove herself, she wants to show her uncle—the Wizard of Dark Street—that logic is as powerful as magic....

Author	Anne Nesbet
ISBN	0061963135

The Cabinet of Earths, Anne Nesbet’s debut novel for tweens, blends fantasy, science, and horror into an irresistible story in the vein of the classic His Dark Materials series.
 
Twelve-year-old Maya is miserable when she has to move from California to Paris. Not speaking French at a school...

Author	Shelley Moore Thomas
ISBN	0374367450

Guided by a tattered map, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, and inspired by the storyteller’s blood that thrums through her veins, eleven-year-old Trinket searches for the seven stories she needs to become a bard like her father, who disappeared years before. She befriends a fortune-telling...

Author	Barry Wolverton
ISBN	0062027913

Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath.

Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink,...

Author	Kelly Barnhill
ISBN	0316056731

In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn’t most fairy tales.

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend,...

Author	Susan Hill Long
ISBN	0553511343

The twisty-turny journey of a girl searching for her heart’s desire—glimpsed in a magic mirror. Perfect for fans of Rump or Catherine, Called Birdy
 
A foundling girl with a crooked leg and a crutch doesn’t expect life to be easy. Indeed, Maggie’s dearest wish is to simply not feel...

Author	Deva Fagan
ISBN	0805087435

All Prunella wants is to be a proper bog-witch. Unfortunately, her curses tend to do more good than harm. When her mixed-up magic allows a sneaky thief to escape her grandmother's garden, Prunella is cast out until she can prove herself.

It's hard enough being exiled to the unmagical Uplands,...

Author	Nagaru Tanigawa
ISBN	4044292124

Finalmente, todo lo que había comenzado en La disociación de Haruhi Suzumiya queda cerrado. Sabremos cuáles son los motivos que mueven a "Fujiwara", cuál es la verdadera identidad y el objetivo de Yasumi Watahashi, y hasta dónde llega el poder inconsciente de Haruhi Suzumiya.

Como...

Author	Ellen Renner
ISBN	1408304457

Ever since the Queen mysteriously disappeared and the King went mad five years ago, eleven-year-old Princess Charlie has lived a wild and mostly unsupervised life in the country of Quale, running amok through the castle instead of following affairs of state. Now revolution whispers through the air,...

Author

Braden Bell

Warm up your credit cards, or start counting out the Benjamins, because you're going to want to buy both of Braden Bell's magical books. "The Kindling," his first YA masterpiece, is matched and perhaps surpassed by its sequel, "Penumbras." These are more than great reads folks.

"Middle School...

Author

Diane Stanley

In the second book of the trilogy, Molly explores the source and nature of her ever-changing magical gift. Sent by king Alaric on a crucial mission, she is drawn to Harrowsgode, the mysterious walled city where her grandfather was born and from which he later escaped. What she discovers there will alter...

Author	Kathryn Miller Haines
ISBN	1596436107

I didn't like this one quite as much as the first one, although it was still good and I will read any further adventures of Iris. (I still miss Rosie Winter, though!) But I will give it four stars, if for no other reason than this quote:
“ ’That’s how it starts, isn’t it , Iris? All these awful things...

Author

Natasha Lowe

Poppy Pendle was born on the floor of the Patisserie Marie Claire bakery in the little town of Potts Bottom. When, as an infant, Poppy unexpectedly performs her first bit of magic, her parents, Edith and Roger, know their dream has come true. Their daughter has inherited the family gift.

But...

Author

Morgan Keyes

A girl’s love for her raven may put her life in jeopardy in this gripping tale.

In Keara’s world, every child has a darkbeast—a creature that takes dark emotions like anger, pride, and rebellion. Keara’s darkbeast is Caw, a raven, and Keara can be free of her worst feelings by transferring...

Author

Holly Webb

review posted at both Got Fiction? and KK's Books and Reviews

I know we rarely review YA or MG here at Got Fiction? but with my kids getting older, I don't really know what's appropriate for them to read. I've taken a couple chances lately, and found some great books! Rose and the Lost Princess was...

Author	Josh Berk
ISBN	0375957014

Guy Langman can't be bothered with much. But when his friend Anoop wants Guy to join the forensics club with him in the (possibly misguided) hopes of impressing some girls, Guy thinks why not.

They certainly aren't expecting to find a real dead body on the simulated crime scene they're assigned...

Author	Isuna Hasekura
ISBN	0316229113

Lawrence and holo stopped at a town looking for an Abby that is secretly built by a father Franz. But Lawrence doesn't know that Father Franz died so he upsets the priestess that is there and she turns him away. so Lawrence goes to the village elder in search for the location. the village elder talks the the...