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Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1959
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance-from the perspective of the monster-by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell"--
"Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain...
2) Rogue
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ember Hill, a member of the dragon organization Talon, along with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues, sets out to rescue Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved Ember from a Talon assassin. A reckoning's brewing-- and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly.
3) Paranormalcy
Author
Series
Paranormalcy trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend.
4) Soldier
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While Ember regroups with Riley and the rogue dragons to avoid being forced into becoming an assassin for Talon, solider Garret journeys to the birthplace of the Order of St. George to uncover deadly secrets.
5) Legion
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Devastated by revelations about the Talon dragon organization, hatchling Ember Hill stands beside the rogue dragon, Riley, against her heir-apparent brother, Dante, who has threatened to unleash the greatest threat dragonkind has ever known.
6) Seraphina
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
8) Talon
Author
Series
Talon saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have become strong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over the world with humans none the wiser. Ember and Dante Hill are the only sister and brother known to dragonkind. Trained to infiltrate society, Ember wants to live the teen experience and enjoy...
Author
Series
Mary novels (Cynthia Hand) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and ... queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king...
10) Odin's ravens
Author
Series
Blackwell pages volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendants of the gods band together to fight monsters, and Matt Thorsen and his friends must journey to the underworld to save a descendant.
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1900, the shapeshifting guardian of North Carolina's Biltmore estate faces deceptively dark and terrifying forces that make her question her own senses and whom she can trust.
12) Firelight
Author
Series
Firelight novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
Author
Series
Trouble in the stars volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trouble, while training a rescued baby shapeshifter, must go undercover at a military academy to save Electra and the other cadets as a threat from the deep edges of space approaches.
14) Forestborn
Author
Series
Forestborn volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rora, a young, orphaned shapeshifter in a world that fears magic, must risk everything if she hopes to save her best friend Finley from a devastating illness that is sweeping the kingdom.
15) Grace and glory
Author
Series
Harbinger (Jennifer L. Armentrout) volume 3
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling conclusion to the Harbinger trilogy, Trinity, who is out of options, brings Lucifer back to the world to fight the Harbinger, a decision that carries disastrous consequences with it.
16) The Raven heir
Author
Series
Raven heir volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Cordelia, a young shapeshifter who has always lived in an enchanted forest with her siblings and mother, must now use her powers to discover the truth about who the Raven Heir really is"--
17) Mistwood
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince.
18) Eternal hunter
Author
Series
Night watch (Cynthia Eden) volume 1
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Nissera Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bristal discovers she is a shapeshifter, one of three remaining elicromancers tasked with guarding the realm of Nissera against dark magic while manipulating three royal families to promote peace.
20) Loki's wolves
Author
Series
Blackwell pages volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Matt Thorsen is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendents of the trickster god Loki. When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendents of the gods must fight monsters to stop the end of the world."--
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