The best Teen & Young Adult Fantasy books: Reddit reviews

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Why hasn't anyone commented on the fact that he has the Disociation of Haruhi Suzumiya? That goes for over $100 on Amazon!

City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende?

Edit for link: https://www.amazon.com/City-Beasts-Isabel-Allende/dp/0060535032

Edit 2: link that better ties in with the details from your comment: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3304.City_of_the_Beasts

"City of the Beasts begins with the story of Alexander Cold, who is 15 years old and going through a family crisis. While his parents leave for Texas to try to treat his mother's cancer, Alex and his sisters are sent to live with their grandmothers. Despite his desperate pleading, Alex is sent off to New York City to stay with his eccentric grandmother Kate Cold, a reporter for International Geographic Magazine. His sisters, however are sent to live with their Grandmother Carla.

Meanwhile, Kate announces that she will be taking Alex with her to the Amazon rain-forest during his visit. Once Alex arrives in New York City, and finds out that his grandmother had no intentions of collecting him at the airport and is forced to walk to her apartment, several blocks away. In the process he meets a girl named Morgana, a homeless girl in her mid-20's.

She offers him pot and steals his backpack that contained his clothes, his money and his flute. He is greatly saddened by the loss of his precious flute, but Kate gives him the flute belonging to his grandfather, Joseph Cold. Soon, they pack off to go to the Amazon with some professors and photographers. The reason Kate goes is to write an article about the Beast. ..."

Sounds like Patrick Ness's The Rest of Us Just Live Here.

• Tearmoon Empire
• Spice & Wolf
• Apothecary Diaries
• Book Girl (link because just searching for Book Girl doesn't match the novel) https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Book-Girl-Suicidal-light-novel-ebook/dp/B0092XN864
• 86 Eighty Six

"The Dictionary of Imaginary Places" by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi was one of the best random thrift shop finds I've ever had. It is exactly what it sounds like, an alphabetical listing of worlds from legends and fantasy writings. It covers things like Atlantis, Middle Earth, and even Wonderland.

It gives anywhere from a few paragraphs to a few pages of information describing the world, it's people, and any applicable facts (unique creatures, technology, magic etc.). It even has quite a few maps.

It's 731 pages of great reference material. I highly recommend checking it out if you can.

A quick search and I found it on Amazon for under $20, I'll leave a link if anyone is interested.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Imaginary-Places-Updated-Expanded/dp/0156008726

Amazon.CA [$9.99 CDN] It says it's temporarily out of stock, so I don't know if that means they're restocking soon somehow.

Also you can't edit the title of a Reddit post.

English yen press officially licensed copies.

As an even more fun "fuck you" they recently started printing more copies of the manga.

Here's a copy of wavering for 168 used

I don't even want to look at the new price.

Gosick's author died????? WTF??

edit: No she didn't!! Wikipedia

I also couldn't find any additional sources.

STOP SPREADING FAKE NEWS!!!!

I thought it was weird because Gosick Pink was released just last year or so and she is releasing a new book this fall!

you could consider this book from 2000 (you can peek inside on Amz): https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Imaginary-Places-Updated-Expanded/dp/0156008726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484468189&sr=8-1&keywords=imaginary+places