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Otherbound

Corinne Duyvis · 403 pages

A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world--a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem. A 17-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he is drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world, a world that is growing increasingly

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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"--

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Witch World

Christopher Pike

On a high school graduation road trip to Las Vegas, Jessie, still in love with her ex-boyfriend Jimmy, discovers that she possesses extraordinary powers and the ability to exist in both the real world and in an alternate world.

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Hollow City

Ransom Riggs · 399 pages

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

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A Corner of White

Jaclyn Moriarty · 384 pages

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Gateway

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

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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.

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Stolen Away

Alyxandra Harvey

Abducted and trapped in an alternate world in which a despotic ruler threatens both faery and human realms, seventeen-year-old Eloise must battle to save herself, her aunt, and a society in danger.

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His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman · 1,017 pages

Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alik

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Witch's Pyre

Josephine Angelini · 380 pages

Lily Proctor has come a long way from the weak, sickly girl she used to be. She has gained power as a witch and a leader, found her way home, chosen to face battle again, and (after losing her first love and being betrayed by her new love) she has learned more about loss and grief than she ever wanted to know.

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Jane, Unlimited

Kristin Cashore · 458 pages

**If you could change your story, would you?** Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless. Then an old acquaintance, the glamorous and capricious Karin Thrash, blows back into Jane's life and invites her to a gala at the Thrashes' extravagant island mansion

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The Merlin Conspiracy

Diana Wynne Jones · 470 pages

Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.

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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

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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.

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The Otherwhere Post

Emily J. Taylor · 400 pages

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The Gathering Dark

Christine Johnson · 497 pages

"A gifted pianist discovers that she and the mysterious boy she's falling for are part of an alternate world made from dark matter, and in a race of love against fear, she must somehow save her life without losing herself"--Provided by publisher.

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Lunatic

Ted Dekker, Kaci Hill

Fight the Horde or die with love. Separated by time and space, our heroes finally return home. But five years have passed and they find a nightmarishly changed world. The despised Horde are now in control. The healing lakes of Elyon are now blood red. And mighty Thomas Hunter and his Forest Guard have disappeared. Then the world unravels further. Dive into a journey among the Horde whose sole miss

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Shadowspell

Jenna Black

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The Love That Split the World

Emily Henry · 403 pages

At the beginning of her last summer in Kentucky before leaving for college, Natalie is once again visited by the apparition she calls "Grandmother" and meets a new boy, Beau, who changes her life.

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Traveler

L.E. DeLano · 324 pages

Teen author Jessa learns that she and one of her characters, Finn, are Travelers with the ability to slide between realities, and that Finn is determined to prevent her dying in yet another realm.

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Beyond the Reflection's Edge

Bryan Davis · 400 pages

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Gateway to the Gods

Katherine Applegate · 176 pages

Most of us probably won't get the chance to travel to a parallel universe. Won't have the opportunity to encounter wizards, dragons, aliens, and mythological gods. But if what April, Jalil, David, and Christopher have had to experience is any indication of what another world might be like, perhaps not going there isn't such a bad thing. So, April and her friends are starting to get used to the

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Small Eternities

Michael Lawrence

In the second volume of the Withern Rise trilogy, seventeen-year-old Naia and Alaric deal with the consequences of switching realities and discover even more layers to their world.

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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.

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