More Multicultural Fantasy and Science Fiction for Young Readers

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The list author says: "Fantasy and science fiction stories featuring main characters of color."
Tankborn (Tankborn Trilogy)
1.  Tankborn (Tankborn Trilogy) by Karen Sandler
The list author says:
  "Best friends Kayla and Mishalla, genetically engineered slaves on the planet Loka, develop friendships with higher-status boys that lead them to question the strict caste system of their world."
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Wildefire
2.  Wildefire by Karsten Knight
The list author says:
  "After a killing for which she feels responsible, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde moves cross-country to a remote California boarding school, where she learns that she and others have special gifts that can help them save the world, but evil forces are at work to stop them."
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The Shattering
3.  The Shattering by Karen Healey
The list author says:
  "When a rash of suicides disturbs Summerton, an oddly perfect tourist town on the west coast of New Zealand, the younger siblings of the dead boys become suspicious and begin an investigation that reveals dark secrets and puts them in grave danger."
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4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Team Human
4.  Team Human by Justine Larbalestier
The list author says:
  "Residing in New Whitby, Maine, a town founded by vampires trying to escape persecution, Mel finds her negative attitudes challenged when her best friend falls in love with one, another friend's father runs off with one, and she herself is attracted to someone who tries to pass himself off as one."
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4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)

Legend
5.  Legend by Marie Lu
The list author says:
  "In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy."
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4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (490 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

Akata Witch
6.  Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
The list author says:
  "Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer."
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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Vulture's Wake
7.  Vulture's Wake by Kirsty Murray
The list author says:
  "In a future Australia, Callum and Bo, perhaps the only female survivor of a bird virus, travel through a lawless, battle-ridden landscape as Callum seeks his fathers and Bo tries to find a place to belong."
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Fox and Phoenix
8.  Fox and Phoenix by Beth Bernobich
The list author says:
  "Sixteen-year-old Kai, a magician's apprentice and former street tough, must travel to the Phoenix Empire, where his friend Princess Lian is studying statecraft, and help her escape so she can return home before her father, the king, dies."
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3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Vanished
9.  Vanished by Sheela Chari
The list author says:
  "Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing."
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Starfields
10.  Starfields by Carolyn Marsden
The list author says:
  "While big changes are coming to her Mexican village, nine-year-old Rosalba hears that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012 and she dreams of an ancient Mayan boy, eyes bound in a shamanistic ritual, who hints at what Rosalba can do."
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4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Slice of Cherry
11.  Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves
The list author says:
  "Teenage sisters Kit and Fancy Cordelle share their infamous father's fascination with killing, and despite their tendency to shun others they bring two boys with similar tendencies to a world of endless possibilities they have discovered behind a mysterious door."
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4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

The Lost Girl
12.  The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
The list author says:
  "Fifteen-year-old Eva's life is not her own. She is the clone of a girl living far, far away on another continent -and when this 'other' dies, Eva must step in and take over."
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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

Devil's Kiss
13.  Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
The list author says:
  "Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined."
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Huntress
14.  Huntress by Malinda Lo
The list author says:
  "Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world."
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4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)

Freedom Stone
15.  Freedom Stone by Jeffrey Kluger
The list author says:
  "With the help of a magical stone from Africa, a thirteen-year-old slave travels to the battle of Vicksburg to clear her father's name and free her family from bondage."
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4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Breadcrumbs
16.  Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
The list author says:
  "Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life"
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4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (117 customer reviews)

Bridge of Time
17.  Bridge of Time by Lewis Buzbee
The list author says:
  "Struggling with their parents' divorces and sneaking away to talk during a boring field trip, best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee suddenly find themselves face to face with a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger."
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4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Wolf Mark
18.  Wolf Mark by Joseph Bruchac
The list author says:
  "When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters."
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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

The Chaos
19.  The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson
The list author says:
  "Toronto sixteen-year-old Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy."
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3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

The Midnight Palace
20.  The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The list author says:
  "When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in 1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with the help of their secret society of fellow orphans."
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3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

The Savage Fortress
21.  The Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda
The list author says:
  "When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage."
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4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

Ship Breaker
22.  Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The list author says:
  "In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl."
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4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (172 customer reviews)

The Other Side of Dark
23.  The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
The list author says:
  "Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders."
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The Geomancer's Compass
24.  The Geomancer's Compass by Melissa Hardy
The list author says:
  "Sixteen-year-old Miranda is torn between her future building infrastructure for Augmented Reality, and the commitment she makes to her dying grandmother to honor ancient Chinese magic."
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3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Dope Sick
25.  Dope Sick by Walter Dean Myers
The list author says:
  "Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy 'Lil J' Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices."
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4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow
26.  Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow by Nathan Bransford
The list author says:
  "When sixth-grade classroom terror Jacob Wonderbar and his friends Sarah and Dexter find a spaceship crashed in the woods near their suburban neighborhood, their discovery leads them to a series of adventures including space travel, substitute teachers, kidnapping, and more."
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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

Galaxy Games: The Challengers
27.  Galaxy Games: The Challengers by Greg R. Fishbone
The list author says:
  "For his 11th birthday Tyler Sato receives a certificate naming a star in his honor. The trouble is that it isn't really a star; it's a spaceship coming to invite Earth to join in playing the Galaxy Games."
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The Fairy Godmother Academy #4: Lilu's Book
28.  The Fairy Godmother Academy #4: Lilu's Book by Jan Bozarth
The list author says:
  "After waking to find herself in Aventurine--the place where girls train to become fairy godmothers--an African American twin sister who is afraid of discovering her own uniqueness embarks on her first mission to rescue a special bird's egg before a devastating magical hurricane hits."
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Manifest (Kimani Tru)
29.  Manifest (Kimani Tru) by Artist C. Arthur
The list author says:
  "Krystal Bentley is an outsider at her new high school in a small Connecticut town since she hears the voice in her head of a dead teenage boy who becomes her confidant, so she joins two other teens with unusual powers to solve his killing."
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3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

Rot & Ruin (Benny Imura (Rot and Ruin))
30.  Rot & Ruin (Benny Imura (Rot and Ruin)) by Jonathan Maberry
The list author says:
  "In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter."
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4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (186 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)
31.  The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
The list author says:
  "After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs."
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4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (724 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions

The Dead and the Gone (The Last Survivors, Book 2)
32.  The Dead and the Gone (The Last Survivors, Book 2) by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The list author says:
  "After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City."
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3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (131 customer reviews)

A Ghost in my Suitcase
33.  A Ghost in my Suitcase by Gabrielle Wang
The list author says:
  "Celeste travels back to China to visit her grandmother, Por Por. The visit is more dangerous than expected when Celeste finds out that Por Por is a ghost catcher."
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Luminous
34.  Luminous by Dawn Metcalf
The list author says:
  "Sixteen-year-old Consuela suddenly and inexplicably finds herself in the parallel universe of the Flow, where she and other teens with extraordinary abilities safeguard a world where they no longer belong."
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Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story
35.  Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story by Marilyn Nelson
The list author says:
  "As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house."
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