Books like Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa, a thirty-year-old spear-wielding bodyguard, saves the young prince Chagum from drowning and is hired to protect him from his own father's assassins, who believe the spirit egg the boy carries must be destroyed.
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The Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.
Kings of the Wyld
Clay Cooper, once of Saga, the most famous band of mercenaries in the land, is living quietly when his old frontman Golden Gabe asks him to get the band back together and cross a monster-filled wild to rescue Gabe's daughter from a besieged city.
Children of Blood and Bone
Magic vanished from Orïsha the night the king's soldiers killed the maji, Zélie Adebola's mother among them, and now Zélie, her brother and a runaway princess have one chance to bring it back before the crown prince hunts them down.
The Sword of Shannara
Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf in the quiet village of Shady Vale, learns from the druid Allanon that he is the last heir to the Sword of Shannara, the only weapon that can destroy the Warlock Lord.
Unsouled
A boy born without the ability to use his world's magic system sets out to prove that willpower can overcome any limitation.
The Hobbit
A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.
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.
The Book of Three
Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.
The Lost Hero
Jason wakes on a school bus with no memory, holding hands with a girl named Piper who says she is his girlfriend, and with his best friend Leo is taken to Camp Half-Blood, where demigods are being called to a new quest.
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.
Eragon
Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.
Redwall
The peaceful mice of Redwall Abbey are threatened by Cluny the Scourge, a one-eyed rat, and his horde, and a clumsy young novice, Matthias, sets out to find the lost sword of the abbey's hero, Martin the Warrior.