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Seeress

Ednah Walters · 288 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyUrban FantasyYoung Adult
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The Lost Sun

Tessa Gratton · 334 pages

"In an alternate U.S.A. (the United States of Asgard), Soren Bearskin, the son of an infamous beserker, and Astrid Glyn, daughter of a renowned seer, embark on a road trip to find Baldur, the missing god whose absence has caused panic throughout the country."--

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Dark Frost

Jennifer Estep

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Hammer of Thor

Rick Riordan · 484 pages

"Magnus Chase, you nearly started Ragnarok. What are you going to do next?" It's been six weeks since Magnus and his friends returned from defeating Fenris Wolf and the fire giants. Magnus has adjusted to life at the Hotel Valhalla—as much as a once-homeless and previously alive kid can. As a son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus doesn't exactly fit in with the rest of O

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Realm of the Reaper

Katherine Applegate

There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Things have gotten way beyond weird. First April, Jalil, David, and Christopher end up in Everworld. Since then, they’ve been hunted by trolls, entertained Vikings, fought in a war a

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Thor's Serpents

K.L. Armstrong, M.A. Marr · 364 pages

"As Ragnarok--the apocalypse--approaches, the thirteen-year-old descendants of the gods realize they can't take every step of their journey together, as Matt must fight the Midgard Serpent alone, and Fen and Laurie are pulled in different directions"--

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyUrban FantasyTeen Protagonist
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Runelight

Joanne Harris

Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs - except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead. Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyYoung AdultFantasy
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The Alchemyst

Michael Scott

Gods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistUrban FantasyYoung Adult
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Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale

Holly Black · 329 pages

When pixie Kaye declares herself to Roiben on the day of his coronation, he is forced to send her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye is forbidden to see or speak to him unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie.

Urban FantasyNew York CityTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Awakened

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 304 pages

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn't it? Why should she r

Urban FantasyGods & MythologyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Wicked Within

Kelly Keaton · 288 pages

In post-apocalyptic New Orleans, Ari continues her desperate quest to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries, but the relic both she and Athena seek to control is missing, amid rumors that an ancient power is on the rise. Ari continues her quest to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries, but the relic she seeks to contr

Gods & MythologyUrban FantasyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Monsters : I Bring the Fire Part II

C. Gockel · 262 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyUrban FantasyFantasy
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Teen ProtagonistNew York CityYoung AdultUrban Fantasy
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A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated

Danielle L Jensen · 448 pages

Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess’s

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyFantasySeries
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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

Gods & MythologyYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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The Islands of the Blessed

Nancy Farmer · 496 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyYoung AdultFantasy
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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 560 pages

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Gods & MythologyYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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Invincible

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Gods & MythologyUrban FantasyYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Lioness Rampant

Tamora Pierce · 353 pages

"I'm not sure I want to be a hero anymore." Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needs....But Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when a new challenge arises. She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for good -- but only in the r

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistGods & MythologyFantasy
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Beasts of the Frozen Sun

Jill Criswell · 368 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyYoung AdultFantasy
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The Unyielding

Shelly Laurenston · 400 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyUrban FantasyFemale Lead
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Two Ravens and One Crow

Kevin Hearne · 368 pages

Norse MythologyGods & MythologyUrban FantasyFantasy
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Gods & MythologyYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula

Urban FantasyYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistNew York City

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