Questions tagged [young-adult]
For questions looking to identify young-adult novels or asking about their presence in Science Fiction and Fantasy. If looking to identify a story, include the [story-identification] tag, if asking about the history of the genre use in conjunction with the [history-of] tag.
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Book about a boy who becomes a sorcerer
I'm desperately looking for a book series about a boy he, I think, becomes a sorcerer. He goes to a Christmas party with his family and finds a man waiting for him, again I think. His father is absent ...
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A fantasy book about a main character named Draco
Looking for a book I read some time ago but didn't get a chance to finish. This is what I know:
Might be a series of novels
Main character named Draco
Set in a fantasy realm
Draco is royalty
He ends ...
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Sci-fi book series about a teenage detective, possibly named Diamond, with a floating AI assistant
This is a book series I read over a decade ago, probably sometime from 2008-2013. I'm fairly certain the target audience was young adults.
The setting has many of the hallmarks of a dystopian future. ...
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Book series c.2000 where the main character has the power to communicate with and manipulate plants
For many, many years I have been scouring the internet looking for a book series I read when I was about 8 years old which really started my love for fantasy. What I remember is below:
The MC is in a ...
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Young adult urban fantasy series, teens given artifacts that grant unique powers per artifact, monsters want those artifacts
I read a series of books in sometime between 2016-2020 where there are specific artifacts that whoever holds them and is the "owner" of them both can make use of its abilities and become ...
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2000s YA sci-fi book, male protagonist, only one in each world who can travel between dimensions through the 4th one, everyone is him but different
I'm trying to remember a YA Sci-Fi book, probably from the 2000s, about a boy who is randomly attacked by what looks like wizards and robots. He is then saved by someone who appears to be an older ...
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YA Book about two siblings and their uncle, who built a magical cabinet
This has been bugging me for years. I read the first book of a small series (maybe only two or three books total) a few years back. YA fantasy, that I'm trying to remember correctly.
I believe a ...
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YA book series about an orphan girl with violet eyes who finds out she has powers
I read this series probably 10 years ago. It has been driving me insane ever since wanting to reread it now.
It was about a girl with violet eyes whose parents had died. She thinks she's an ordinary ...
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90s or 2000s book about a young girl who somehow found she could access a magical realm
So this is a long shot, as I unfortunately don't remember many details, but I am trying to find a book I read about 20 years ago when I was a kid. I read it in my local library (in the UK) so it would ...
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Book about a college(?) age girl who moved into a house with several male roommates, one of whom is either a ghost or cursed
I'm trying to find this book I read in like junior high/high school and don't remember much. I graduated in 2017, if that helps any.
I know it's about a college(?) age girl who moved into this house. ...
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Young adult horror story in which a boy's neighbor turns out to be the Devil
What I can remember is that a boy lives with his grandma in a apartment and a new neighbor moves in. The kid befriends the neighbor as the neighbor seems to know the kid's secret thoughts. It turns ...
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Young adult murder mystery book series about a cop's daughter who works in the morgue after school
It's about this high school girl. She's a cop's daughter and she works in the morgue after school. Everything is fine until dead bodies start coming into the morgue looking fine on the outside but ...
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series about a boy who has a chip in his brain- he is taken in and hooked up to machines, to be used for years and he loses his memory
I don’t know much about the book, a friend told me about it a couple months ago. But what I remember is that people had chips in their brains and this one character has certain abilities. There’s some ...
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Early 2000s young adult sci-fi novel about a girl choosing a new robotic body [duplicate]
I'm desperately trying to remember the title of a novel I read in high school (2002-3ish, Western Australia) about a girl who chooses to have a replacement robotic body. The body comes with a ...
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Fairy fantasy book about magic based on a points system?
I remember checking out a book from my library maybe 5-10 years ago. It was a hardcover purple and white book that might have had a pair of wings on the cover. I can’t remember the title. (It might ...
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