In Coraline’s family’s new flat is a door which opens only to a brick wall. But one day, the door opens on a passage to another flat just like her own. At first, things seem marvelous there. The food is better. The toys are magical. But there’s also another mother and father, and they want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Phaedra, the beautiful daughter of a baron, has been visited in dreams by an elusive knight for almost as long as she can remember. And when his presence becomes a reality, she is forced to choose him and a new life over her home and her father.

In this first volume of The Book of Sorahb, Bell introduces readers to a world of honor, danger, and magic in a spellbinding tale of self-discovery of three young people who watch as their world is torn apart.

In this new telling of the legend of King Arthur, Reeve presents the story of a girl named Gwynna, who is saved by Myrddin the bard after her village is destroyed. In the course of their travels, Myrddin transforms Gwynna into the mysterious Lady of the Lake, a boy warrior, and a spy.

Hallow Hill has a strange and tragic history. For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from the estate, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have come to live at Hallow Hill. Brought up in a civilized age, they have no idea of the land’s dreadful heritage.

16 year old Keturah is renowned in her village for her captivating storytelling. She tells of her experience of being lost in the forest, her eventual meeting with a dark figure on horseback who is Lord Death and her bargaining with him for her life — and for the lives of the villagers who are threatened by an onset of the plague.

Sunshine is a magic-handler who forms a dangerous, passionate bond with the vampire Constantine in an alternate world where nothing is as it seems.

In the not-too-distant future, Luke has to spend his days in hiding because he’s the third child in his family. Why? The government only allows two. But then Luke catches a glimpse of an young face in a new neighboring house that he knows to be already home to two other kids. An unusually compelling and memorable read that takes a look at totalitarianism, the concept of population control, and the risky but sometimes important need to try to fight back. Accessible to young readers but still thought-provoking for older ones. Excellent for fans of darker fantasy.

Rich and suspenseful, with a hair-raising conclusion, this is Nancy Werlin’s most dynamic novel yet–one that explores the ethics and amazements of genetic engineering.

Branko’s mission is to find a woman to take home to his female-starved home planet so they can help repopulate. Tonia is a simultaneously extraordinary and ordinary Earth girl in the midst of first love. What she doesn’t know is that if she agrees to go with Branko, she’ll essentially become a breeding machine—a far life from the happily ever after she imagines. Romantic. Fans of TV’s Roswell will love this story.

In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE. Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what’s happened.

Katniss is living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games.” When Kat’s sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

The main character, Marcus Yallow, also known as w1n5t0n (using the leet alphabet), though later in the book he changes to M1k3Y, and three of his friends are truant from high school and find themselves near a terrorist bombing of The San Francisco Bay bridge. The foursome are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Securityand held as enemy combatants because of their suspicious behavior, including having encryption on Marcus’ cell phone. Marcus is eventually released to find that San Francisco has become a police state He fights back against the DHS using technology and guile.

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the “bird kids,” who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of teenagers know about the secret hour — only they are free to move about the midnight time. They call themselves Midnighters. Then Jessica Day moves to town … and everything changes.

Truesight by Davis Stahler

About a utopian society that is genetically altered to be blind. It’s the Pleasantville/Matrix phenomenon, with imaginative differences.