Switchers

Switchers by Kate Thompson
When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms. Books in this trilogy: Book 1. Switchers -- Book 2. Midnight's choice -- Book 3. Wild blood.

Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1

Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1 written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa
Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world, somewhere between magic, art, and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabble in these powers to grant their dearest wish, they become slaves of the military-alchemical complex. This is Volume 1 in the series Fullmetal Alchemist.

Dragonflight

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread. But it has been over 400 years since the last Threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will every strike again. But F'lar, rider of Pern's greatest bronze dragon, has no such illusions. This is Book 1 in the Dragonriders of Pern series.

Serendipity Market

Serendipity Market by Penny Blubaugh
When the world begins to seem unbalanced, Mama Inez calls ten storytellers to the Serendipity Market and, through the power of their magical tales, the balance of the world is corrected once again.

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Series #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. Books in this series: Book 1. A Wizard of Earthsea -- Book 2. The Tombs of Atuan -- Book 3. The Farthest Shore -- Book 4. Tehanu -- Book 5. The Other Wind.

Winter Rose

Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip

Teenage Rois Melior and her older sister, Laurel, fall in love the mysterious Corbet Lynn. Corbet has returned to his ancestral home (now a ruin) in their small town, despite the curse laid upon him by his vengeful grandfather. Rois becomes obsessed with Corbet's secret past--and with the curse that will forever haunt him.

Neverwhere

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

A man goes to the aid of a woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards.

Water Mirror

Water Mirror by Kai Meyer, Elizabeth D. Crawford (Translator)

In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively. Books in this series: Book 1. The Water Mirror -- Book 2. The Stone Light -- Book 3. The Glass Word.

Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy Series #1)

Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy Series #1) by Garth Nix, illustrated by Leo And Diane Dillon

Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. Books in this series: Book 1. Sabriel -- Book 2. Lirael -- Book 3. Abhorsen.

Witch's Boy

Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.

Peter and the Starcatchers (Starcatchers Series #1)

Peter and the Starcatchers (Starcatchers Series #1) by Ridley Pearson, Greg Call (Illustrator)

Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island. Books in this trilogy: Book 1. Peter and the Starcatchers -- Book 2. Peter and the Shadow Thieves -- Book 3. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon.

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House...

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical and long-banished butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will.

Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies

Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales by David Lubar
Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.

Dingo

Dingo by Charles de Lint
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation.

Fablehaven (Fablehaven Series #1)

Fablehaven (Fablehaven Series #1) by Brandon Mull, illustrated by Brandon Dorman

When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming. Books in this series: Book 1. Fablehaven -- Book 2. Rise of the Evening Star -- Book 3. Grip of the Shadow Plague. -- Book 4. Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary -- Book 5. Keys to the Demon Prison

The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp Series #1)

The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp Series #1) by P. B. Kerr
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers. Books in this series: Book 1. The Akhenaten Adventure -- Book 2. The Blue Djinn of Babylon -- Book 3. The Cobra King of Kathmandu -- Book 4. The Day of the Djinn warriors -- Book 5. The Eye of the Forest.

The Sweet Far Thing

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones. Books in this series: Book 1. A Great and Terrible Beauty -- Book 2. Rebel Angels -- Book 3. The Sweet Far Thing.

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1) by Rick Riordan
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Books in this series: Book 1. The Lightning Thief -- Book 2. The Sea of Monsters -- Book 3. The Titan's Curse -- Book 4. The Battle of the Labyrinth -- Book 5. The Last Olympian (May 2009)

The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1)

The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1) by Michael Scott

While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. Books in this series: Book 1. The Alchemyst -- Book 2. The Magician -- Book 3. The Sorceress.

House of Many Ways

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems. The sequel to Howl's Moving Castle.