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Sharon Shinn
As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring—and tells her that "black jade" translates to "Daiyu"—she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th century China. Almost immediately
The Last Universe
William Sleator · 215 pages
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
Dreamwalker
C.S. Friedman · 312 pages
All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those dreams and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her sch
Just Like Fate
Cat Patrick, Suzanne Young · 299 pages
As I Wake
Elizabeth Scott · 269 pages
Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.
The Almost Girl
Amalie Howard · 415 pages
"Seventeen-year-old Riven comes from a world parallel to Earth, a world that has been ravaged by a devastating android war. As a Legion General, she is the right hand of Prince Cale, the young Prince of Neospes. In her world, she's had everything: rank, responsibility, and respect. But when Cale sends her away to rescue his long-lost brother, Caden, who has been spirited to modern day Earth, Riven
A Thousand Pieces of You
Claudia Gray · 368 pages
Marguerite's physicist parents' most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes. When her father is murdered, the killer (her parents' handsome, enigmatic assistant, Paul) escapes into another dimension. Marguerite refuses to let him go free, so she races after him through different universes. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt as well as
Relativity
Cristin Bishara · 291 pages
"If Ruby Wright could have her way, her dad would never have met and married her stepmother Willow, her best friend George would be more than a friend, and her mom would still be alive. Then she discovers a tree in the middle of an Ohio cornfield with a wormhole to nine alternative realities. But is there such a thing as a perfect world? What is Ruby willing to give up to find out?"--
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman · 399 pages
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mys
Oh My Goth
Gena Showalter · 317 pages
Young adult sci-fi novel. A fiercely individualist Goth girl wakes up to discover that the whole world has gone Goth and she's actually – gag – *popular*.
Dissonance
Erica O'Rourke · 484 pages
"Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony"--
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Gretchen McNeil · 359 pages
Betrayed by the two persons she trusts the most, Josie jumps at the chance to trade places with her twin in a parallel universe until Josie becomes trapped in a dangerous world where shadowy creatures feed on human flesh.
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Laini Taylor · 624 pages
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
Between the Lives
Jessica Shirvington · 331 pages
For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every 24 hours she Shifts to her 'other' life - a life where she is exactly the same, but absolutely everything else is different: different family, different friends, different social expectations. Determined to live one life, Sabine begins a series of increasingly risky experiments which bring her dangerously close to the life she has
Ask Again Later
Liz Czukas · 322 pages
Instead of a "No Drama Prom-a" with a group of friends, seventeen-year-old Heart LaCoeur must choose between two boys with good reasons for asking her, but a flip of a coin leads not to one date but two complete--and very different--prom nights.
Pivot Point
Kasie West
"A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters. Both futures hold the potential for love and loss, and ultimately she is forced to choose which fate she is willing to live thorugh"--
The Shadow Society
Marie Rutkoski · 448 pages
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
A Princess of Roumania
Paul Park · 368 pages
Raised by her adoptive family in a quiet Massachusetts town, teenager Miranda Popescu is astonished to discover that she is a princess from an alternate world that is split by a deadly political battle.
Eternity's Wheel
Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves · 288 pages
It has been two years since Joseph Harker first Walked between dimensions, met the alternate forms of himself, and formed a team to protect the Altiverse in the struggle between the vicious forces of magic and science--and now, injured, he has returned to his own dimension, bringing danger with him.
Beyond the Reflection's Edge
Bryan Davis · 400 pages
City of Secrets
Mary Hoffman
The much-awaited fourth title in the bestselling Stravaganza series When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici cl