Fantasy

What is the fantasy genre?
The fantasy genre is "fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality" (CA Dept. of Education, 2011, para. 4).

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Falcondance by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes opens with a "blade dance" performed by Oliza, daughter of Zane, a serpiente, and Danica, an avian, who mated in order to make peace between their clans in the Kiesha'ra series launch title, Hawksong (about which PW wrote, "readers are likely to be caught up in the details of the avian Hawk's Keep and the serpiente palace"). The novel's main focus is on Nicias, son of two exiled falcons, who is loyal to Oliza (the heir to both clans' thrones) but is haunted by his visions and must make a terrible choice; a tantalizing ending suggests more to come. -//Publisher's Weekly// (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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// Going Bovine // by Libba Bray FIC BRA Going Bovine isn’t your original love story/ adventure type of book. It will bring you around the world with a sick boy named Cameron and his midget friend named Gonzo. Cameron has a disease that everyone called “mad cow” disease. He breaks out of the hospital with his friend and makes a run for it. Along the way, Cameron will meet a pop-punk angel by the name of Dulcie whom he falls in love with. Throughout the book, you don’t know whether or not Cameron is dreaming or if it’s real life.
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Going Bovine is young adult fiction and I recommend it for anyone older than 12 because the book is hard to understand sometimes. It will draw you in with figurative language that will draw pictures in your mind. This book is like no other, and I think it was great. –H.G.

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Set in the near future, far-right ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. Women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: the chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. -//Library Journal// =====

// Vampire //// Academy // by Richelle Mead

FIC MEA (available at the Neptune Township Public Library)
// Vampire //// Academy // is a great book for young adults/teens. The genre of this novel is fiction. Basically this novel is about two young teen vampires. One of them is a princess (Rose) and the other is just an ordinary girl (Lissa). Rose is the “bad girl” figure. She is known as a rebel in her school, and Lissa is the “girly girl” figure in the story. Rose has to watch over Lissa because there are different forms of vampires against them that are trying to capture her. There are many twists and turns in this story that cannot be revealed. You will have to read it on your own or else the whole story will be ruined for you. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good old suspenseful fiction novel. This novel is one of many from the series of // Vampire //// Academy // and I will definitely go out and buy the next copy! -M.H.
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// The Wizard of Oz // by Frank L. Baum FIC BAU The chief characters are very different from those we have come to know: the Scarecrow is fat and wears a small dunce cap, the Cowardly Lion is pure animal, not a bit cuddly, and Dorothy is more demure than we remember her. Only the Tin Man looks as if he could walk into a previous version of the story. Like yet another variation of Baum's classic, The Wiz, this shows the way a popular tale can take on new life. –//Booklist,// Ilene Cooper
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