Clean, Fast-paced Fantasy

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Clean reads
• Fantasy
• Creative worlds
• Fast pace
• Interesting characters

The Secret Hour
By Scott Westerfeld
YA F WESTERFE
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA F BRAY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Amulet of Samarkand
By Jonathan Stroud
YA F STROUD
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Pawn of Prophecy
By David Eddings
SCIFI EDDINGS
The farm boy, Garion, begins a dangerous quest to recover the magic Orb and prevent the evil Torak from seizing power over the world