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The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable

          This first book of the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy finds Calwyn, a novice ice priestess, living the sheltered existence of the sisters of Antaris.  She tends her bees, sings her ice enchantments and dreams until a mysterious Outlander comes to warn her of impending danger.  She must leave to journey with a man she barely knows to begin a beautiful and dangerous adventure.   

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

          In 793, North men (berserkers) invade Great Britain; capture Jack, a bard in training, and his young sister.  In the spirit of the Lord of the Rings adventures follow with dragons, trolls, magic and a berserker girl.

Flux by Beth Goobie

       Frightened, alone, and harassed by the Skulls, a gang of terrifying boys, Nellie, scrounges for a living in a hostile environment.  She discovers she can alter her molecular field and enter other states of reality.  Could the four large scars on her scalp explain her unusual ability?  And how did they get there?  Troubling memories begin to invade her already unstable existence.

***Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

       Cat doesn’t mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising witch ever seen on Coven Street.  But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Christomanci Castle.  “Mad about Harry?  Try Diana.” Says U.S. News and World Report.

(***is recommended by Ms. O’Brien)

Gifts by Ursula LeGuin

         Imagine a time and place where gifts inspire fear instead of gratitude.  Orrec is born into just such a community and his inherited extrasensory gift is called Unmaking.  Because this gift can be wielded with a glance, he must wear a blindfold at all times to protect those he lives from his dire abilities.  He must test boundaries and question tradition in a society where extrasensory “gifts” and magic create rivalries in their clan.

The Messenger by Lois Lowry

       Did you read the Giver or Gathering Blue?  Once again in this futuristic novel a young person in a Utopian society must come to grips with events and find his true self.  Matty is concealing his power to heal others because he can’t explain it.  In a society where honesty is the most important virtue, he faces the greatest conflict of his life.  Is not acknowledging something the thing as lying?

Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier      

        A young Viking warrior, Eyvind, travels to a magical land across the see to find a barren place filled with unexpected beauty and hidden treasures.  His chieftain, Ulf, begins a new settlement and although Eyvind only wanted to become a great warrior, he falls in love with the niece of the local king.  A blood oath sworn in childhood just might doom him to kill the only thing he ever loved.

Is Eyvind able to win the fierce struggle to find his own truth?

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

          In the not too distant future where werewolves, demons, and other creatures take over the world, teen Sunshine says, “ There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it’s unwise to walk.  But there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years and I just needed a spot where I could be alone with my thoughts.  Vampires never entered my mind.  Until they found me….  

 An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton

            Imagine Scotland in 1162.  Girls must do as their fathers or husbands decree and Jenny falls in love with the wrong man.  It doesn’t help that he has been with the fairies and is more than just a little different.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

       Matt Cruse has the life he has always dreamed of as a cabin boy on the Aurora, a luxury passenger airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean.  Then one night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies who are completely real and utterly mysterious.  

   Updated on November 28, 2006