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Title: Shadow and Bone (US) / The Gathering Dark (UK)
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (US)/Indigo (UK)
Publication date: June 2012
Hardcover: 368 pages/ 442 pages
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka [...]
Author: Pete Hautman
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Candlewick
Publication date: April 2012
Hardcover: 308 pages
Kicking off a riveting sci-fi trilogy, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman plunges us into a world where time is a tool — and the question [...]
Author: Neesha Meminger
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Ignite Books (self-published)
Publication date: March 2012
Paperback: 308 pages
Pammi has a Secret–she is an Able. At night, she travels through time to an ancient city called Zanum. She’s been visiting Zanum [...]
Author: Zetta Elliott
Genre: Fantasy (Contemporary/Urban Fantasy), Young Adult
Publisher: Amazon Encore
Publication date: February 2012
Paperback: 132 pages
When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, an elderly white woman. [...]
Author: Robin LaFevers
Genre: Historical, Paranormal, Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: April 3rd 2012
Hardcover: 549 pages
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the [...]
Author: N. K. Jemisin
Genre: Fantasy, PoC, LGBT
Publisher: Orbit
Publication date: May 1 2012
Paperback: 448 pages
In the city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Along its ancient stone streets, where time is marked by the river’s floods, there is no [...]
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House
Publication date: March 27 2012
Hardcover: 336 pages
This is historical fantasy at its best. Sixteen-year-old Hild has always been a favorite of her uncle, king of the Shylfings. So when she protects her cousin the [...]
Title: The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Author: Simone St James
Genre: Historical, Romance, Ghost story
Publisher: NAL Trade
Publication date: March 6 2012
Paperback: 318 pages
Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis – rich, [...]
Author: Ellen Potter
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: February 28 2012
Hardcover: 192 pages
Hiding is Roo Fanshaw’s special skill. Living in a frighteningly unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment’s notice. When her parents [...]
Author: Kate Kae Myers
Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: February 14 2012
Hardcover: 353 pages
Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived. With help [...]
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