Junior Library Guild - Fall 2020 Gold Standard SelectionĢ021 YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Top Ten) Times Book Prize - Young Adult Literature - FinalistĢ020 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction - Finalistįall 2020 Publisher’s Weekly Flying StartĪBA Summer/Fall 2020 Indies Introduce Title Legendborn is the first book in The Legendborn Cycle.ĪLA - Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent 2021Ģ021 Ignyte Awards - Best Novel - Young AdultĢ021 NCETA Ragan-Rubin Award for Literary AchievementĢ021 Kids’ Book Choice Awards - Favorite Book CoverĢ021 Hugo Awards - Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book - FinalistĢ021 Locus Awards - Young Adult Novel - FinalistĢ020 L.A. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down-or join the fight. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets-and closer to each other. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.Ī flying demon feeding on human energies.Ī secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.Īnd a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts-and fails-to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.Īfter her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home.
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