YA Fiction with Fantasy, Romance, and Mythical Creatures

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• YA fiction
• fantasy
• romance
• mythical creatures

Shadow and Bone 
By Leigh Bardugo
YA F BARDUGO
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protégé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

Dragon Slippers 
By Jessica Day George
YA F GEORGE Dragon #1
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.

Shadowfell 
By Juliet Marillier
YA F MARILLIE
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.

The Alchemyst: The Immortal Nicholas Flamel 
By Michael Scott
YA F SCOTT Secrets #1
Having discovered the secret to eternal youth, 14th-century alchemist Nicholas Flamel and his wife are alive and well in present-day San Francisco, California. But they won't stay well if 15-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman don't fulfill their prophesied role of either saving or destroying the world, starting by getting back an ancient text stolen from Flamel's bookstore. -- Description by Ellen Foreman.

Clockwork Angel 
By Cassandra Clare
YA F CLARE Infernal #1
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.