by Tad C. Rhoden (2012)
As fifth son of the king of the Fen Countries, Aram is a prince with little to no prospect of ever becoming king. Apprenticed to his sea captain uncle, Aram doesn't believe his shipmates stories of an island kingdom populated by dwarves until they dock there. The dwarf clans can never agree on anything, and so choose to have a mortal king. While Aram is a guest at the palace, the king is assassinated and Aram is blamed. There is nothing to do but flee. While on the run, he finds refuge among the dwarves and becomes a military advisor to a dweorgan revolution.
AdriAnne Strickland
Now a prisoner in Eden City, Tavin Barnes is cursed with being the next Word of Death and can kill with a touch, but Ryse, the Godspeaker charged with Tavin's training, is pushing him to be an elite assassin and he must rally his fellow Words in order tosubvert the Godspeakers' master plan of dominating an illiterate wordless class.
Andre Norton
An evil magician's enslavement of a peaceful valley is hampered by a woman driven into the forest as a child and raised to be a master magician herself.
Cinda Williams Chima
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
C.J. Busby
Max Pendragon is not looking forward to attending Morgana Le Fay's summer spell school. Not only is his battered cauldron producing slimy sludge instead of perfect spells, but ever since he and his sister Olivia foiled evil Morgana's plot against King Arthur, they have been vary of her plans for revenge.