"Inheritance Cycle" (anticipated) quartet. Featuring the adventures of teenage boy (and dragon companion whom he raised) newly discovered to be of the legendary Dragon Riders.

"Faerie Wars Chronicles" quartet. Featuring a blend of magic with science and challenges of teenage boys in parallel human and faerie worlds.

"Chronicles of Icemark" military fantasy trilogy featuring the adventures of a young warrior queen as she forms alliances (with Snow Leopards, ancient Vampires, and Wolf-folk) and battles to preserve her medieval kingdom. Norske influenced.

"Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" historical fantasy series of 6. Set in pre-agricultural Stone Age times and featuring a young Spirit Walker and his companion Wolf. Ancient mysticism mixed with adventure throughout.

"Wind On Fire" adventure fantasy trilogy set in a fairly contemporary time dealing with evil and inequality. (See also Nicholson's "Warrior" 3+? series.)

"The Enchanted Forest Chronicles" quartet. Fairytale-like high fantasy featuring a princes, a rescue and dragon lore. (Wrede's "Book of Enchantments" short story collection features 2 set in the Enchanted Forest world.)

"Song of the Lioness" swords and sorcery quartet. Featuring the adventures of a young girl who becomes a knight and a shaman. (See also Pierce's series companion duo "Daughters of the Lioness".)

"Snow Walker" heroic fantasy trilogy. Featuring a meld of Norse and Celtic myths with magic in a freezing, feudal world terrorized by the villainous Snow-walker witch. (See also Fisher's "Oracle Prophecies" trilogy set in alternative ancient Egypt and Greece.)

"Kiesha'ra" thriller fantasy series of 5. Featuring warring clans of shapeshifters (avians, serpents, falcons, wolves, wyverns).

"Time" series of 5 (including and concluding with "An Acceptable Time"). The series follows the lives of 3 youngsters who save the world from evil forces and features time travel. Elements of science fiction as well.

"Fablehaven" 3+? series featuring the Fantasy Preserve (which is like a nature preserve protecting magical creatures from the outside world) and its human caretakers.

"Harper Hall" trilogy featuring fire lizards (Dragons of Pern) and the craft of the Harper.

"Farsala" (aka "Book of Sorahb") trilogy. Three young people battle to protect and save their land. Persian and Roman Legion influences, with stories involving more military antics than many on this list.

"Chronicles of Narnia" classic series of 7. Featuring the adventures of 3 siblings as they are transported to the magical world of Narnia where each youngster has an important role, animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil.

"Chronicles of the Faerie" trilogy. Lyrical romantic fantasy set in interwoven ancient and modern Ireland and featuring Celtic folklore, the Faerie and 2 backpacking cousins.

"Pellinor" quartet (also including "The Riddle", "The Crow" and "The Singing"). Featuring a mysterious Bard, an orphan and an adolescent slave girl (with an inherited powerful Gift who becomes integral to the Land's survival).

"The Lost Years of Merlin" series of 5. Stories of the "lost" youth years of the great Sage and Wizard Merlin. (See also story-line sequels "Merlin's Dragons" trilogy about Merlin's adventures in Avalon and "The Great Tree of Avalon" trilogy.)

"Chanters of Tremaris" trilogy. Featuring a young ice magic priestess (within a world where enchantment is worked with song) who joins other Chanters to fight a powerful evil sorcerer.

"The Chronicles of Prydain" heroic fantasy series of 6. Featuring the adventures of a young Assistant Pig Keeper and his companions (a bard/King, a talkative princess, a feral forest creature and a dwarf). Steeped with influences of Welsh mythology and legend. ("The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain" is included in this series of 6 and represents story-line prequel.)

"Last Apprentice" dark 4+? fantasy series. Set in the alternative England of the early 20th century. Featuring a 12 year old Spook Apprentice who chases ghosts and binds witches to keep all safe.