Books like Alanna: The First Adventure
Alanna of Trebond, who wants to be a knight, swaps places with her twin brother, who wants to be a sorcerer, and enters the royal palace as a page disguised as a boy.
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Akata Witch
Sunny Nwazue, twelve, born in New York to Nigerian parents and now living in Nigeria, an albino who can't play football in the sun, finds out she is one of the Leopard People, who work juju.
Dawn of Wonder
A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Fourteen-year-old Mona's only magic is making bread do what she wants, so finding a dead girl on the floor of her aunt's bakery is the start of more trouble than she bargained for, in a city where wizards are vanishing.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Sabriel
Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
The Black Tides of Heaven
Mokoya and Akeha, twins given as children to the Grand Monastery to settle their mother the Protector's debt, grow up apart, one with the gift of prophecy and the other drawn to the rebels against her.
Graceling
Katsa was born with a Grace for killing, and her uncle the king uses her to frighten his enemies, until she meets Po, a foreign prince searching for his kidnapped grandfather, and begins to choose her own fights.
Red Sister
Nona Grey, a young girl about to be hanged for attacking a nobleman's son, is taken from the gallows by Abbess Glass to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train girls of rare blood to kill.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
On their eighteenth birthday, twin sisters Darcy and Tory Vega, scraping by in the human world, learn that they are the lost heirs to the Fae throne of Solaria and are taken to Zodiac Academy, where four Celestial Heirs mean to drive them out.