MCL's Fantasy Stories for Young Adults Bibliography

Call#	Title/Author/Description	Year
Y ALE	The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures.	1995
Y BAK	The Fields and the Hills by Harald Bakken Journeying to the Tamish city of Domn, Weyr, a thirteen-year-old orphan with special senses, gains self-acceptance and an awareness of his talents as a performer when he meets an Agari family and joins their acting and singing troupe.	1992
Y BRA	Mists of Avalon by Marian Zimmer Bradley The Arthurian legend told from the women's point of view.	1982
Y CAR	Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card The author of Ender's Game creates an alternative American frontier powered by folk magic where Native Americans remain powerful and a very special child is born.	1987
Y CHA	Bronze King by Suzy McKee Charmas Music and magic conspire together as Tina, her new friend Joel, and the ancient wizard Paavo join forces to defeat an awesome enemy in this fantasy which takes place in Manhattan.	1985
Y DAL	The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey Haunted by a broken promise to a powerful god, fifteen-year-old Mitsuko enlists the aid of a mischievous shape-shifter who helps her learn to think for herself.	1998
Y DAL	Out of the Ordinary by Annie DaltonFifteen-year-old Molly, who lives in a turbulent, single-parent household, is asked by mysterious, otherworldly visitors to protect an enchanted child from great danger.	1990
Y DOY	Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle Will Odosson sets out on a series of dangerous adventures after a wizard predicts that he will meet his death before a year has passed.	1992
Y FEI	Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist The orphan Pug comes to study with the master magician Kulgan. His courage wins him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, but he is ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. However, Pug's strange sort of magic is destined to change forever the fates of two worlds.	1982
Y JON	Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared Wizard Howl.	1986
Y JOR	Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan A charismatic young woman who has powers beyond those of any living human being saves a world destroyed by fire from ice.	1992
Y KLA	Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.	1997
Y LEN	Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle The fifteen-year-old Murray twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.	1986
Y MAT	Of Two Minds by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman The adventurous story of two royal teenagers on the run who possess extraordinary mental powers.	1995
Y MCC	THE HARPER HALL TRILOGY by Anne McCaffrey Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards that, along with her music, open a new life for her. Titles include Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums.
Y MCK	The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Aerin, the adolescent daughter of a witch and a king, has an honorable and persistent nature, a hot temper, and a hero's destiny.	1984
Y MOU	The First Battle of Morn by Deborah Moulton An attempt to protect his flying horse catapults Torin into the center of the struggle for his planet, Morn, where the rulers want him for their "mind child" and the rebels want him as their savior.	1988
Y MUR	Nightpool by Shirley Rousseau Murphy Injured in battle by the Dark Raiders, sixteen-year-old Tebriel is healed by a colony of talking otters and sets out to fight the Dark and its forces of evil in the world of Tirror.	1985
Y MYE	The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers After witnessing the annihilation of his people by El Muerte's legions, young Tarik undergoes the training, which will enable him to destroy this fierce leader.	1981
Y PUL	The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman A story of destiny and will, featuring feisty Lyra Belacqua and all manner of daemons, gyptians, Pansebjorne, witches, alethiometers, and parallel universes. Book II in the trilogy is The Subtle Knife (1997), in which Lyra travels to a world where soul-eating spectres have devoured most adults. The series concludes in Book III, The Amber Spyglass.	1996
Y PIE	Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierce Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic. Titles include: Sandry's Book (1997), Tris's Book (1998), Daja's Book (1998), Briar's Book (1999).
Y TUR	The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure, which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.	1996
Y VOI	Jackaroo by Cynthia Voight When hard times among the people revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper's daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend. 1985
Y WAT	Split Heirs by Lawrence Watt-Evans and Esther M. Friesner Non-stop action and non-stop laughs from the king and queen of humorous fantasy. This is the funniest high fantasy epic since Monty Python and the Holy Grail.	1993
Y YEP	Dragon of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy.	1982
Y ZAM	Journeyman Wizard by Mary Frances Zambreno When Jermyn goes to Land's End to study wizardry under the famous spellmaker Lady Jean Allons, he finds his lessons disrupted by magical mayhem and a mysterious murder.	1994