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Urban Fantasy for Teens

Fantasy fiction has excited readers and listeners for hundreds of years, beginning with an oral storytelling tradition. Modern fantasy can be divided into many subgenres, each with a unique set of conventions and elements. Urban Fantasy takes place in realistic urban settings, but includes fantastical characters and magic.

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  • When she and her crew are attacked by Nightmares unlike any they’ve ever seen, Alice must step between the coming darkness and the mortal world once more, discovering that the monsters aren’t waiting for her on the other side of the…
    BookNew York : Feiwel & Friends, 2023 — YA FICTION MCKINNEY
  • After failing to come into her powers, 16-year-old Voya—a Black witch living in near-future Toronto—is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her…
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2021] — YA FICTION SAMBURY
  • As her father lies gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, 18-year-old Victoria's last hope is to find a vampire in New Orleans, an impossible mission that rekindles a special friendship.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2021] — YA FICTION FUSTON
  • To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — YA FICTION DEONN
  • As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between.
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — YA FICTION SCHWAB
  • Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2012 — YA FICTION STIEFVATER
  • Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, 15-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2008, c2007 — YA FICTION CLARE
  • When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on—then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds…
    BookNew York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015 — YA FICTION OLDER
  • Whisked away to Haxahaven Academy for Witches in 1911, 17-year-old Frances Hallowell soon finds herself torn between aligning herself with Haxahaven's foes, the Sons of St. Druon, to solve her brother's murder or saving Manhattan and her…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2021] — YA FICTION PEYTONSMITH
  • Best friends, Tavia and Effie, struggle to hide their supernatural identities in a society that discriminates against people with their abilities.
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2020 — YA FICTION MORROW
  • When her family's shrine is attacked by a band of yokai demons, Shira must gather a group of unlikely heroes to keep the demon lord Shuten-doji from bringing everlasting darkness to the world.
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA FICTION ALAMEDA
  • Told in alternating timelines, 17-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her…
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2023] — YA FICTION SAMBURY
  • 16-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in, forcing Ketrell to make some hard decisions.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — YA FICTION LEWIS
  • At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children. Both paths…
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — YA FICTION MEJIA