Conditional Recommendation: After a fire evicts her family from their home and puts her younger sister in the hospital, 12-year-old Maia must learn to face her fears while staying with her grandparents in Minnesota.
Age: Middle Grade
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 237
Published: 2022
Genre: Fiction
by Ursula K. Le GuinConditional Recommendation: A gifted young wizard journeys to restore the balance after releasing an evil shadow into the world.
Age: Young Adult
Series: Earthsea Cycle, Book 1 of 6
Pages: 183
Published: 1968
Genre: Fantasy, Classic
by Kevin EmersonConditional Recommendation: Suspenseful events and amazing discoveries of two 13-year-olds as they struggle to survive their last day on Mars.
Genre: Science Fiction
by Brian DavisConditional Recommendation: A boy discovers that he’s part dragon and with his family and friends, is thrust into a millennia-long struggle between slayers and dragons.
Genre: Christian Fantasy
by Andrew PetersonConditional Recommendation: The beginning of a fantastical, suspenseful, epic adventure with the Igiby family as enemies are evaded and mysteries are uncovered.
Genre: Fantasy
by C.S. LewisUnconditional Recommendation: Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace join King Caspian and Reepicheep on their adventures aboard the Dawn Treader as they voyage in search of seven lost lords and Aslan’s Country.
Genre: Fantasy, Christian Allegory
by Michael CrichtonConditional Recommendation: A team of consultants and two kids visit an island where dinosaurs have been genetically engineered and they must deal with the consequences or die.
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
by Jessica Day GeorgeConditional Recommendation: A young seamstress gets an unusual pair of slippers from bargaining with a dragon and becomes a major player in facing the threat against her kingdom.
Genre: Fantasy
by S. D. SmithUnconditional Recommendation: Two young brother and sister rabbits are forced to flee their home and find their place in the wider world of creatures at war and endeavoring to regain a better world.
Genre: Fantasy, Animal
by Terri BlackstockConditional Recommendation: In this thrilling conclusion, fugitive Casey Cox must stay alive a little longer to expose the true criminals, but she’s running out of places to hide from both the police and the people who want her and those she loves dead.
Genre: Christian Thriller