Land of Stories, The Enchantress Returns is a thrilling novel that I would recommend to middle schoolers. My favorite part of this book was the character development. Example, Princess Red goes from being shallow and vain to caring and thoughtful towards others. All in all, if you like books that involve friendship, fantasy, and adventure, I think this book would be great for you!
The Rescue is a graphic novel as part of a 3-book miniseries called Skyclan and the Stranger by Erin Hunter, overall part of the Warriors books. Skyclan is a clan broken up long ago but helped reformed by Firestar and Sandstorm. They live separately far away from the other clans. Leafstar has found out that some of the apprentices have been taking food from a human who lives nearby, but she has made them stop.
Warrior’s Return is a graphic novel as part of a 3-book miniseries called Graystripe’s Adventure by Erin Hunter, overall part of the Warriors books. This book is the final book of the miniseries. At the end of the second book, Graystripe and Millie find out that the old forest had been destroyed and all the clans left it. They decided to visit Ravenpaw, Graystripe’s old friend, along with Ravenpaw’s companion Barley, for help, and they told them that the clans left and gone toward the sun-drown place(the sea).
Warrior’s Refuge is a graphic novel as part of a 3-book miniseries called Graystripe’s Adventure by Erin Hunter, overall part of the Warriors books. This book is the sequel to the first book The Lost Warrior. In the first book, Graystripe meets Millie, a pet cat, who becomes friends with him and decides to leave her old life behind to journey with him to find the clans. In this book, as they are traveling, they stay with a few cats and their kits, who live in a barn house.
Deka, the Nuru, has released the Gilded Ones and is leading conquests to make Otera one again. She wants to reach Hemaira and get all the other alaki while defeating the Jatu to reclaim Otera. However, when they realize that the jatu are now able to become deathshrieks, her plans are changed. Then she decides to go kill the leader of the jatu and gain more order but she soon learns that the Gilded Ones are not the only gods but that there are others, the Merciless Ones, as well.
The Dark Assassin by Joseph Delaney is a captivating fantasy novel that follows the thrilling adventures of Tom Ward, a young Spook's apprentice. In this installment of the "Wardstone Chronicles" series, Tom faces a formidable new enemy as the malevolent assassins of the Fiend make their way into his world.
These Infinite Threadsby Taherah Mafi is a YA fantasy novel and is the second book in the series after This Woven Kingdom. I rated it four stars. The book follows Alizeh, who is the heir to the fallen Jinn kingdom. Jinn are mistreated in the kingdom where Alizeh lived in the first book, Ardunia, as a common servant who always wears a covering, or “nosta” over her special Jinn princess eyes.
Deka is a village girl in Irfut who just wants to live a normal life and be proven as pure and belonging in her village. She wants to be able to get married and live a happy life. However, on the day of the Ritual of Purity, it is discovered that she is impure and has the cursed blood of demons inside her. As she underwent the Death Mandate but yet didn’t die, she is taken from Irfut to the Warthu Beru to train in an army of girls like her, an alaki army.
This exciting, creative novel is centered around a girl named Abeni who lives in a pretty secluded village in the forest with her family & community. On the morning of her birthday, she wakes up excited for the Harvest festival that will take place, unknowing of the real events that will take place. Everything is normal at first till the witch enters the village, bringing terrible news of a great danger that they would soon face. Following this, Abeni witnesses her friends, family, and community getting taken away by horrible “storm women” and a man with goat-fur clothing.
