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KCLS BookMatch: Fantasy Action/Adventure Series

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  • An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth.
    Book, 2010New York : Simon Pulse, 2010.
  • Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
  • A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.
    eBook, 2011New York : Greenwillow Books, c2011.
  • Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the…
    Book, 2012New York : Henry Holt, 2012.
  • Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
    Book, 2000New York : Puffin Books, 2000.
  • In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous…
    Book, 2012Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2012.
  • Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in…
    eBook, 2014New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
  • Alanna

    the First Adventure

    Pierce, Tamora
    Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
    Book, 1997New York : Random House, 1997.
  • Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]
  • Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
    Book, 2007New York : M.K. McElderry Books, c2007.
  • Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty -- especially if they learn of her Sight -- and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Now faeries are…
    eBook, 2008Pymble, NSW ; New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2008.
  • In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the…
    Book, 2011New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2011.
  • Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
    Book, 2013New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2013.
  • In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2009[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2009.