Pahua and the Soul Stealer-A Pahua Moua Novel Book 1
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Hmong eleven-year-old Pahua Moua has been a bit of an outcast her whole life because of her ability to see and talk to spirits. While babysitting her younger brother one day, Pahua accidentally untethers an angry spirit at a local bridge who steals her brother's soul. Lying indeterminably unconscious, Pahua's brother's only hope is for Pahua to find a way out of the mess she created. Things go from bad to worse when she uses her aunt's shaman tools to summon a demon, but is saved by a warrior shaman named Zhong who reveals he's been seeking a prophesied shaman. Together they travel the spirit world in a race to save her brother's soul before he dies.
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
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Presents a collection of East and South Asian mythic tales retold and re-imagined by fifteen authors from their respective cultures, including classic epics, fantasy tales, science fiction, and contemporary tales involving star-crossed lovers, meddling gods and goddesses, a ghost town, and a night of dancing, not all with happy endings.
The Reader
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Sefia is barely surviving with her aunt Nin after the brutal death of her father. When Nin is kidnapped, Sefia's only clue is a book that belonged to her father. But in a world where reading is unheard of, Sefia must teach herself to unlock the clues that lead to the truth.
Legend
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What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
Aru Shah and the End of Time-A Pandava Novel Book 1
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Twelve-year-old Aru exaggerates her family's status in order to fit in at her private school. But when three classmates come to the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture--where Aru actually spends most of her time--she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, and inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories
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In this Malaysian-inspired "Little Red Riding Hood" fantasy, Hamra is disappointed when she is sent on an errand in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home, and it becomes clear that no one has remembered her thirteenth birthday. When Hamra enters the jungle and finds the most perfect jambu and picks it, she forgets the two most important rules of the jungle: always ask permission before you enter and never take what isn't yours.
Mulan Before the Sword
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A young girl named Mulan sets out on quest with the Jade Rabbit of legend to search for an antidote for her sister, Xiu, who was bitten by a spider. Mulan learns a shapeshifter named Daji wants Xiu dead because a daughter of the Hua family is prophesied to save the emperor. Mulan works to defeat Daji with the help of immortal healers.
Dragon Pearl
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Thirteen-year-old Min stows away on a space battle cruiser as an impersonated cadet in the Thousand World Space Force in order to discover what happened to her older brother. As a girl with fox-magic, she could use a charm or her shape-shifting ability, but to keep her family's secret safe, Min's mother insists on her children appearing human at all times.
A Wish in the Dark
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All of the light in Chattana is made by one man, the Governor. The magical lights represent freedom for Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison and he dreams of walking among them. But when Pong escapes from Namwon, he discovers that the outside world is just as unfair as life in the prison. Nok, the prison warden's daughter, searches for Pong in order to restore her family's good name, but she uncovers secrets that make her question everything she's believed. When Nok and Pong find each other, they set out to make things right.
The Serpent's Secret
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Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
An Arrow to the Moon
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Seventeen-year-olds Hunter Yee and Luna Chang meet when Hunter transfers to Luna's high school. Instantly, they're drawn to each other and learn they were born on the same day. The more time they spend together, the more they are aware of strange occurrences happening around them. When they learn their families have been in a generations-long feud with each other, they embark on a quest to uncover the truth about their families and the magic that's causing a widening crack in their town when they are together.
The Girl and the Ghost
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Malaysian-born Suraya is gifted a spirit called a pelesit, from her witch grandmother. Suraya, who has no friends, quickly becomes close to the spirit, which she names Pink. However, Suraya doesn't realize that Pink has a dark side, and can quickly turn evil towards those it is jealous of and must contend with keeping Pink or letting it go.
We Hunt the Flame
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People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.
Want
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In a world where pollution and disease are so bad that people suffer terrible illness and early death, the massive company Jin Corp has developed protective suits that only the very wealthy can afford. Jason Zhou is determined to stop the corporation from catering to only the super-rich, and infiltrates their company in order to help protect the rest of the population. But he discovers that Jin Corp may be behind the pollution in the first place.
Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena
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Popular, athletic Clip and his brainy sister Sadie are complete opposites, but they have one thing in common: they both love laser tag. When the Blackwood Gaming Arena opens in their town with state-of-the-art courses and virtual-reality headsets, the siblings are ready to jump in, and they can't wait to defeat one another in the arena.
Internment
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Set in the near-future United States, Muslim Americans are being taken to internment camps which followed book burnings, curfews, and mandatory viewing of the new president's national security addresses. Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin watches with contempt at the complicity of the community and her own parents who accept their current plight. She makes friends both within and outside the camp intent on starting a revolution that will end the violence and Islamophobia.
The Last Mapmaker
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As the Mangkon royal navy Master Mapmaker's apprentice, twelve-year-old Sai keeps her lowly born status a secret. If anyone found out her father is a conman from the Fens, she'd lose her position. Though, that's likely to happen anyway, as her thirteenth birthday is approaching and that's when all high-born receive a gold bracelet denoting their lineage.
The Kingdom of Back
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Jealous of the musical talents of her younger brother Woferl, and worried she'll have to give up her dream of composing to become a wife, Nannerl Mozart takes the offer of a fae named Hyacinth: that he'll grant her wishes if she helps him regain his crown in the Kingdom of Back. Nannerl traverses between real and fairy worlds for a decade, but as events in the real world seem to parallel those in Back, Nannerl reconsiders the pact she made, and must reconcile her own ambitions with the love she has for her brother.
Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl
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Thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi considers himself just a normal kid, even though he's homeschooled and travels the world treasure-hunting with his guardian and aunt, the owner of a novelty shop. On a recent trip to Africa, Shinji encounters a mysterious Coatl figurine that seems to call to him from the shop's shelves.
The Ivory Key
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The land of Ashoka fuels its economy with magic, a physical resource mined from quarries. After the murder of Lord Harish, eighteen-year-old Vira has been crowned maharani, and is desperate to keep the secret of the dwindling magic supply under wraps, lest a war break out with a neighbor eager for a takeover.
Spirit Hunters
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Twelve-year-old Harper Raine has heard the whispers about her new home in Washington, D.C.—it is rumored to be haunted. Harper's not sure she believes in such things until her four-year-old brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. Now Harper wonders if his new imaginary friend, Bill, is something more. And while she struggles to unravel the mysterious and dark history of the home, she also tries to tap into memories she's repressed about an accident that left her badly injured.
Rick Riordan Presents the Last Fallen Star (a Gifted Clans Novel)
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Thirteen-year-old Riley Oh, an ungifted member of the Gom clan of healers, one of six gifted witch clans, embarks on a quest to save her sister Hattie's life when a spell to share Hattie's powers goes wrong. Riley and her best friend Emmett travel to an exiled clan to recover a fallen star and learn truths about the clans that have been withheld from them.
Six Crimson Cranes
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On the day of her betrothal ceremony to a warlord's son, Princess Shiori'anma loses control of a paper bird she crafted with forbidden magic, and meets a shapeshifting dragon. When she witnesses her stepmother Raikama's ability to transform into a demon, Raikama turns her brothers into cranes, and places a spell on her that leaves her voiceless, without magic, and homeless.
The Last Fallen Realm
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Thirteen year-old Riley was not born to be a leader, but the magical community thinks she and her adopted brother, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse. With the veils between the Mortalrealm, the Spiritrealm, and the Godrealm thinning, the one thing Riley must do is believe in herself.
Her Radiant Curse
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Cursed with a serpent's face when her own father offers her as a sacrifice to the Demon Witch, Channi has spent her life in the village as an outcast, with only her sister, the beautiful Vanna, who sees her for who she really is and not a monster. When Vanna turns seventeen, the girls' father announces a vulgar contest to marry her off to the cruelest, most vicious suitor. Channi, having grown up relying on cunning and strength to survive, defends Vanna from the suitor, but in doing so puts herself in the crosshairs, sparking a world-spanning quest of romance and danger.
The Ones We're Meant to Find
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Cee has been living on a deserted island for three years with only an android she build for company and a faint memory of her sister. Worlds away, STEM genius Kasey lives in an eco-city, one of Earth's last unpolluted places, reserved for those committed to protecting the environment. Three months ago, Kasey's sister, Celia disappeared, and she is determined to find out what happened to her. As the two work to find their way back to one another, Kasey discovers she may have found the key to saving humanity from its own destruction.
The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel
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Inexplicably, eleven-year-old Mars Patel's friend Aurora goes missing, and the only ones who seem overly concerned about it are Mars and his friends. Soon the group discovers other kids have gone missing around the world, and clues seem to point to eccentric tech billionaire,
The Dragon's Promise
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Princess Shiori finds keeping her promise to her dying stepmother to return the dragon pearl to the Kingdom of Dragons more perilous than she ever imagined. First, there is the treacherous politics of the dragon court in Ai'long, where she finds herself in the middle of court intrigue among human, dragon, and demon alike. Then, the pearl itself begins thrumming with mysterious, treacherous power, helping her one instant and leaving or betraying her in the next. Lastly, Shiori's own forbidden magic puts her in danger, threatening to sever the thread of fate that brought her and her beloved Takkan together.
The Young Elites
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Ten years after the blood fever decimated the human population, the survivors of the illness are left with strange markings. Some people think the survivors also have hidden, supernatural powers, and have taken to calling them the Young Elites--but whether they are a force for good or not remains to be seen.
