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Enchanted Forest Reads: Teens

Discover forests filled with dark magic and fantastical creatures in these books for teens.

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  • In Soviet-occupied Estonia, Vik searches for answers in the cursed forest where her sister Anna disappeared and then returned five years later without having aged. But is it a miracle – or a lie? This girl is not quite the girl who left and Vik…
    Book, 2025New York : Holiday House, 2025. — FICTION GRI
  • Clara’s magic has always been wild, but never dangerous. Then, a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father’s chest. The only person willing to help heal him is her former best friend, who asks a terrible price in return. And as…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2023] — FICTION BAK
  • The stars say Xifeng is destined to be Empress of Feng Lu, but only if she embraces the darkness within her. Her beauty and magical power help her defeat rivals as she moves toward the promised fate she desperately longs for, but are fueled by…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Philomel Books, 2017. — FICTION DAO
  • The beautiful Valla travels through dangerous Gottyar Wood to her new life in Count Leonid's castle, but her face is torn to shreds on route and the Count is unhappy with his bride. Stripped of her looks and illusions, Valla must confront terrifying…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — FICTION ROU
  • Shea’s life and access to the outside world is cut off by an impassable forest, leaving her to carefully ration her hearing aid batteries. Desperate, she turns to Oliver, leader of a vampiric gang that rules the Gravewood, exchanging blood for…
    Book, 2026New York : Scholastic Press, 2026. — ROMANCE AND
  • Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But then Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2018. — SCIENCE FICTION ALB ME
  • Selina has a logical mind, a knack for botany and, unlike others on her Caribbean island, no belief in magic. But an attack on her parents and a string of strange murders forces her to face that there is evil lurking in the forests around her town.…
    Book, 2024Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2024. — FICTION DAS
  • Five years ago, Wendy Darling and her brothers vanished into the woods. Six months later she returned, alone, with their blood under her nails. Now, children are starting to disappear again and Peter appears, begging her to help find his rogue…
    Book, 2021New York : Swoon Reads, 2021. — FICTION THO
  • When the drug lord Olvida imprisons Lucha for her new powers, she strikes a bargain with the dark spirit of the forest to destroy Olvida. She hopes to free her sister and the entire region from him and his addictive product. Maybe then the forest…
    Book, 2023New York : Make Me a World, [2023] — SCIENCE FICTION MEJ
  • This collection of five stories in graphic format start with familiar fairy tale and short story tropes, but each wanders farther into the dark and chilling. Historical settings suggest something more genteel, providing contrast for the gothic and…
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York, New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2014] — FICTION CAR
  • Told in alternating timelines, this intergenerational story centres on the enchanted Great Dismal Swamp, which protected Atlas’ ancestor when she escaped enslavement in the 1700s. Now, as Atlas visits her beloved grandmother, she discovers her…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — FICTION PIN
  • Liska, desperate to be rid of her powers, enters the dangerous spirit-wood seeking a mythical flower that could grant her wish. When she is caught by the demon warden of the wood, she is taken to his crumbling manor for a year of servitude. If she…
    Book, 2024New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2024] — FICTION POR