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by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel introduces Hogwarts through the eyes of a boy who has spent ten years being told he's ordinary, and the trick that makes it work is how completely the wizarding world treats him as extraordinary before he's done a single impressive thing. It's the rare kids' fantasy that still holds up as a reread for adults.
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by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling's Chamber of Secrets sends Harry back to Hogwarts for a darker second year, where a hidden monster is petrifying students and an enchanted diary starts writing back to whoever holds it.
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by Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel drops a boy into a community that has traded color, pain, and choice for perfect order, then hands him the one job that lets him see what was given up. It's the rare dystopia built for readers just old enough to notice the wiring under the floorboards.
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by Angeline Boulley
Angeline Boulley's debut Firekeeper's Daughter is a YA crime thriller anchored in an Ojibwe community on Sugar Island, following eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine as she's pulled into an FBI investigation of a deadly new drug. What hooked me: she cracks the case using chemistry and traditional Ojibwe medicine, which makes the detective work feel like nobody else's.
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by Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo takes six teenage misfits, one impossible break-in, and a city built entirely out of leverage, and runs the whole thing like a master thief casing a vault. It's a heist novel with the patience to make you care about the crew before it makes you fear for them.
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by Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry follows The Giver with Gathering Blue, a slower, harder dystopia about an orphaned, disabled girl whose gift for weaving thread into story might be the only thing keeping her alive in a village that discards anyone it sees as broken.
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by Stephanie Garber
Stephanie Garber builds a fairy-tale game where the prize is your sister and the rules are that nothing is real, except when it is. Caraval is a lush, sleight-of-hand fantasy that's as interested in seducing you as its magician master of ceremonies is.
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by Holly Black
Holly Black drops a human girl into a faerie court that despises her and lets her decide she'd rather be feared than safe. It's a sharp, mean, intricately plotted fantasy about wanting power in a place built to deny it to you.