Category: YA Fantasy

No one bothered to tell Daphne Starr that faerytales were real and now she’s stuck in a beanstalk with a beast and a pricked finger. Daphne’s sister and stepsister are in big BIG trouble!

1. It’s the third and final day

2. Rumpelstiltskin plans to suck their powers dry

3. The queen wants them dead

4. The wolves switched sides

5. The world is about to end

6. And did they seriously expect to keep this all from Daphne?

Oh yeah, A LOT of trouble! Halley and Bridgette had better get her out of this—especially since she only has until the battery runs out of her cell phone before she loses her heart . . . to a beast. Will it be Happily Ever After or the end?

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Title: As the Sun Sets (Twisted Tales #3)

Author: Stephanie Fowers

Publisher: Triad Media and Entertainment

Release Date: April 17, 2013

ISBN: 978-0615768014

Size: 410 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Twisted Tales Series: With a Kiss (bk 1), At Midnight (bk 2)

Bridgette has a Cinderella complex big time. She has to find true love’s kiss to get some weird guy off her back who claims to be her faery godmother. But who is she really?

1. Loser of Omak High

2. Girl who rubs her fingers raw working fast food

3. Victim of the evil stepmother who runs the group home

4. Not-so-proud owner of a hearth where fire-starting goblins live

5. Asylum wannabe with occasional schizophrenic episodes

Not even Bridgette knows. Even if her faery godmother wasn’t some guy who knows nothing about romance, how is Bridgette supposed to get true love’s kiss if everyone she cares about disappears?
Bridgette must stop the clock from striking twelve or she’ll lose everything.

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Title: At Midnight (Twisted Tales #2)

Author: Stephanie Fowers

Publisher: Triad Media and Entertainment

Release Date: April 17, 2013

ISBN: 978-0615768007

Size: 382 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Twisted Tales Series: With a Kiss (bk 1)

Faerytales. They’re real . . . they just haven’t happened yet.

Halley Starr finds out the truth when she loses her heart to a terrible curse. Now she has to get it back from that dirty faery who stole it from her, but first, she must fight against the seven rules of the faery kingdom that mortals must never break:

1. No trespassing sacred faery territory

2. Don’t ever say thank you

3. Using a faery’s given name is a no-no

4. Resist the music of the faeries

5. Never break a promise to a faery

6. Refuse all faery food

7. And never, never fall in love with a faery

But if Halley wants her heart back again, she can’t worry about the rules.

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Title: With a Kiss (Twisted Tales #1)

Author: Stephanie Fowers

Publisher: Triad Media and Entertainment

Release Date: April 17, 2013

ISBN: 978-0615767437

Size: 334 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Take the best Nat Geo WILD specials on ants, mix in the Discovery Channel’s “Monster Bug Wars,” cast the brew in fantasy, and you’ve got Insecta: Planet of the Ants (Book 1 – Zombie Queen). Iridescent imagination flies high, burrows deep, and attacks head-on in this epic fantasy adventure set in a distant bioluminescent world where giant insects rule and powerful ant queens lock mandibles in a deadly chess game of massive proportions.

Although the queens command the board, the game is much more complex than they suppose. The pincers of Providence control their fortunes and dangers lurk on every side: voracious ladybug bands, ravenous centipede hatchlings, vicious acid-spitting butterfly menaces, amoebae pandemics, hulking fire ant super soldiers, exploding kamikaze carpenter ants, and a slaver queen’s mysterious arts. But no monster is more feared than the tiny and lethal Phorid fly—the zombie maker! Mantis claw swords and beetle shell shields are no match. Armored millipede tanks and huge war beetles are no defense. Massive bulwarks and moats of tar offer no refuge.

After an impossibly large swarm of Phorids overwhelms his mound, Nodosa braves the desert plains in search of the famed leafcutter fortress desperate to enlist their aid. Little does he know that he’ll become the catalyst of a gallant attempt to rescue his queen from a nest filled with thousands of zombie ants and their fly spawn, the inescapable skirmish between leafcutters and the fire ant horde, and the miraculous healing of a very special egg.

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Title: Zombie Queen (Insecta: Planet of the Ants, Book 1)

Author: W. Thor Larson

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 26, 2013

ASIN: B00BLHZJKM

Size: 248 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Fantasy Adventure

A kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction.

A king gone missing.

Who will survive?

Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. Soon, it becomes clear that deserting the kingdom may be his only hope of saving it. But the further Jaron is forced to run from his identity, the more he wonders if it is possible to go too far. Will he ever be able to return home again? Or will he have to sacrifice his own life in order to save his kingdom?

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Title: The Runaway King

Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Release Date: March 1, 2013

ISBN: 978-0545284158

Size: 352 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Series: The False Prince (bk 1)

Jacob Clark’s fantasy adventure has reached its most dangerous phase yet. A swarm of blood-ridden insects overwhelms Taga Village—threatening the existence of the Makalos—and the secret regarding Akeno’s strengths is about to be revealed. Not only that, but Jacob’s newly honed abilities allow him to discover the origin of the evil Lorkon. But finding out may be his deadliest mission yet.

Join Jacob and his friends in this fourth installment in the Kilenya Series as they strive to prevent the Lorkon disease from destroying Eklaron and Earth.

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Title: Rise of Keitus (Kilenya #4)

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: Self

Release Date: February 18, 2013

ASIN: B00BI4CVYU

Size: 226 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Fantasy

Kilenya Series: The Key of Kilenya (bk 1), The Ember Gods (bk 2), August Fortress (bk3)

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Title: Mind Games

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release Date: February 19, 2013

ISBN: 978-0062135315

Size: 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.3, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Sividious Stark is your average, run-of-the-mill fourteen-year-old: smart, mischievous, and above all, logical. Nothing especially interesting happens to him—until the day he’s thrown into an adventure beyond his wildest imagination.

Pursued by a gang of bullies out for revenge, Sividious escapes to the woods where he comes face-to-face with Aya, a winged, blue, mythical creature in grave danger. She entrusts him with an All Access Pass to a place between worlds and pleads with him to save her from “The Games.” Moments later, mysterious Agents drag her into an abandoned mine, where they disappear in a flash of light.

Resolved to find a rational explanation, Sividious enlists the help of his best friend, Jackie, to test the power of the pass. When they find themselves transported across time and space, they’re thrown into a realm that defies all logic. It doesn’t take long to realize that the beings they’re dealing with aren’t the things of fairy tales: unbeknownst to human kind, an intergalactic battle has been raging in which creatures are enslaved and forced to compete in a battle to the death.

Determined to save Aya from this fate and stripped of the logic he’s clung to, Sividious has only one hope—the one thing he’s resisted—magic. Armed with a power he never knew he had, will one young man have the courage to follow his heart and challenge the dark forces of the galaxy?

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Title: Sividious Stark and the Stadium Between Worlds

Author: Greg Park

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: February, 2013

ISBN:

Size: 236 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Speculative

Easing his pace, Jonathon advanced only inches at a time. Instinct heightened beneath unseen eyes, and he knew he moved in the presence of a creature that could kill him. As he progressed forward, his light caught a presence to his left…a human presence.

Jonathon has had more than enough adventure for one lifetime. That’s why he’s planning to spend this summer camping in quiet central Utah with his Peruvian friend, Severino. But when the two of them accidentally discover an ancient artifact, they wind up in more danger than ever!

Now Jonathon, Severino, and their new friend, Tallie, will have to choose between protecting a secret that’s been hidden for centuries and saving their own lives!

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Title: The Lost Curse (Tombs of Terror, #2)

Author: T. Lynn Adams

Publisher: Sweetwater/CFI

Release Date: July 10, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559551

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Mystery/Speculative

Series: Tombs of Terror (bk 1)

Shoes, unlike magic, are predictable. They don’t change shape, bite, or alter a person’s destiny.

And that’s just how Faryn likes it.

But his Uncle Harvey has a bad habit of dying. While inconvenient, this hasn’t ever been a problem until now. Thanks to an evil witch and a poisoned apple turnover, Harvey is dead again—permanently this time.

As his uncle’s heir, Faryn has to give up shoemaking in order to accept and refine his magic.

Magic he never wanted.

Unwilling to let go of his dream, but unable to escape his destiny, Faryn combines the two and discovers a knack for making magical shoes. He also learns that turning a person into a goose is a lot easier than turning her back, and that he severely underestimated how much trouble magic can be.

The witch who killed his uncle is trying to control all the magic of the land, and it’s up to Faryn to stop her. If only he can get his magic to cooperate in time.

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Title: Slippers of Pearl

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Danyelle Leafty

Release Date: July 6, 2012

ASIN: B008IHKBNI

Size: 223 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Fantasy

She held up the flashlight and this time a very odd symbol caught her eye. It was a round ring and inside the ring was a pyramid and superimposed over it was a cross, like the cross hairs on a gun site.

Instinctively, she reached out to touch the symbol.

Just before impact, an electrical spark from the symbol on the wall to her fingers shot through her.

Teen treasure hunters Lilli and Zane have grown up in a world of ancient artifacts, coded messages, and long-buried mysteries. But there’s no telling what they’ll unearth when they face off against the infamous Zorav and his even-more-menacing advisor.

With the fate of the world in their hands, Lilli and Zane will have to stay one step ahead of danger, find the treasured artifacts, and keep them far away from their enemies or face death—and maybe even worse.

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Title: Adventures of Lilli and Zane: The Golden Flute

Author: Catherine Lanigan*

Publisher: Sweetwater/CFI

Release Date: June 12, 2012

ISBN: 978-1462110230

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

 

*I think she’s LDS. Anyone know for sure?

Jacob Clark’s most dangerous quest yet is just beginning. He and his friends must rescue the powerful Shiengols from August Fortress, where they’ve been held captive for nearly fifteen years. But deadly Lorkon traps are everywhere and affect all involved—even Jacob. To succeed, he’ll have to master more of his powers and put aside distractions from his ordinary life.

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Title: August Fortress (Kilenya #3)

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: Self

Release Date: June 11, 2012

ASIN: B008AYUYB8

Size: 237 pages, ebook

Genre: YA Fantasy

Kilenya Series: The Key of Kilenya (bk 1), The Ember Gods (bk 2)