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13 Treasures

Michelle Harrison

ForestFae/FaeriesMiddle GradeAtmospheric
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The Wild Wood

Charles de Lint · 213 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Breadcrumbs

Anne Ursu · 312 pages

"Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life" -- Provided by publisher.

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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The Secret of Nightingale Wood

Lucy Strange · 304 pages

1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the gar

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericWorld War I
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A Path Begins

J.A. White

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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Serafina and the Splintered Heart

Robert Beatty · 368 pages

When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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Celia and the Fairies

Karen McQuestion · 163 pages

Grammy's whimsical stories of a nearby wood populated by fairies intrigue 10-year-old Celia Lovejoy, and while her parents dismiss the tales as pure nonsense, Celia is enchanted by the thought that the stories may be true.

ForestMiddle GradeFae/FaeriesFantasy
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Wildwood Imperium

Colin Meloy · 592 pages

from publisher: From Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society, comes the stunning third book in the New York Times bestselling fantasy-adventure series the Wildwood Chronicles. A young girl's midnight séance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit.... A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collect

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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Child of the Prophecy

Juliet Marillier · 608 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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The Stolen Child

Keith Donohue · 336 pages

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings--an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Ash

Malinda Lo · 264 pages

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa,

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 352 pages

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeri

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

Heather Fawcett · 345 pages

"When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this second installment of the Emily Wilde series"-- Provided by publisher

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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The Butcher of the Forest

Premee Mohamed · 160 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · 310 pages

Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mo

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Winter Rose

Patricia A. McKillip · 267 pages

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik · 465 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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The Drowned Woods

Emily Lloyd-Jones · 368 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Don't Breathe a Word

Jennifer McMahon · 447 pages

On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Her little brother, Sam, has grown up to be a levelheaded man who is still convinced that Lisa was abducted by a pr

ForestFae/FaeriesDual TimelineFemale Lead
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Oath Breaker

Michelle Paver · 272 pages

When Bane is killed by the Soul-Eater Thiazzi, Torak sets off into the Deep Forest with his foster father and Renn to avenge his friend's murder, but they find themselves in the midst of a war between the Deep Forest clans.

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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The Witch's Boy

Kelly Barnhill · 400 pages

When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, the bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned. When a Bandit King tries to take magic from Ned's mother, a witch, the stutter

ForestMiddle GradeAtmosphericFantasy
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The Woodcutter

Kate Danley · 312 pages

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy
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Beastkeeper

Cat Hellisen · 210 pages

"Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever"--

ForestAtmosphericMiddle GradeFantasy
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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher · 97 pages

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella! From New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. *The very special hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. M

ForestFae/FaeriesAtmosphericFantasy

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