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The Accidental Apprentice
By Amanda Foody
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2021. Fiction. 283 pages.

Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home. --Editor

Lark and the Wild Hunt
By Jennifer Adam
Harper Collins Publisher, 2022. Fiction. 469 pages.

When her brother disappears into the Fae realm, twelve-year-old Lark must try to save him by solving riddles, fixing an ancient clock, and trusting her new Fae friend, Rook. --Editor

Serafina and the Black Cloak
By Robert Beatty
Disney Hyperion, 2015. Fiction. 293 pages.

In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past. --Editor

The Princess Who Flew with Dragons
By Stephanie Burgis
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019. Fiction. 218 pages.

Twelve-year-old Princess Sofia of Drachenheim enjoys freedom from her sister's manipulations during a diplomatic mission to far-off Villenne, until she and her dragon friend, Jasper, are forced to face ice giants. --Publisher

The Stone Girl's Story
Written by Sarah Beth Durst
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Fiction. 326 pages.

A girl made of stone, forever twelve years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue. --Publisher

Twinchantment
By Elise Allen
Disney Hyperion, 2019. Fiction. 327 pages. 

Princesses Flissa and Sara are even closer than most twins. In fact, most of the kingdom thinks they're the same person. When magic was outlawed in Kaloon generations ago, twins, black cats, and other potentially-magical beings were outlawed, too. Since they were born, Flissa and Sara have pretended to be one princess, Flissara, trading off royal duties like attending glamorous balls, participating in fencing exhibitions, and making friends with other young nobles, all while hiding in plain sight. But when the first magical attack in years puts their mother's life in danger, the girls must break the rules that have protected them to save her. Enlisting a brave servant boy and his plucky black kitten as their guides, they set off on an epic quest to the Twists--a forbidden place full of dark magic--to find the evil mage who cursed the queen. With a case of mistaken identity, a wickedly powerful exile out for vengeance, and time running out for their mother, the twins might just need to make their own magic to save the day. --Publisher

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