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Just For You! -- Well-Crafted Fantastical Mysteries

If you enjoy superior world-building with lots of twists and turns, this list is for you.

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  • On his eleventh birthday, Daniel is initiated into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and told to select a book to guard. Fulfilling his task has life and death consequences for him and everyone closest to him.
    Book, 2004New York : Penguin Press, c2004. — FICTION RUIZ ZAFON
  • A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
    Book, 2012Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2012] — TEEN FICTION LE GUIN
  • When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.
    eBook, 2007New York : Random House Children's Books, 2007, c2006. — BOUNDLESS EBOOK
  • In this inventive parallel universe, Lila Mae has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department of elevator inspectors. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues.
    Book, 1999New York : Anchor Books, [1999] — FICTION WHITEHEAD
  • Shades of Grey

    the Road to High Saffron

    Fforde, Jasper,
    Jasper Fforde unfolds the tale of Eddie Russett, a boy living in a world without color. Although he works for the Color Control Agency, the very entity that oppresses society's ability to see colors, Eddie decides to rebel.
    eBook, 2009New York : Viking, 2009. — BOUNDLESS EBOOK