Fantasy with Little Violence

Try these books if you're looking for:

• fantasy
• world building
• little/no violence

Insignia
By S.J. Kincaid
YA F KINCAID
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

Mistborn
By Brandon Sanderson
SCI FI SANDERSO Mistborn #1
Experiencing an epiphany within the most daunting prison of the monstrous Lord Ruler, half-Skaa Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn, and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world. This fantasy builds an exciting new world.

Airborn 
By Kenneth Oppel
YA F OPPEL Airborn #1
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. The book has strong characters in a fantasy world.