YA Fantasy Academy Books for Back to School Season

Does back to school season have you wishing you were attending a magical school from a fantasy book instead of your boring public school? While we can’t cast a spell to suddenly make your school magical, we can recommend some YA fantasy academy books to read!

Conant Academy

Agatha Harkness: Fall of the Coven

By Sara Shepard

When Agatha Harkness finds herself yanked out of her mysterious past and plopped in a modern-day high school, the race is on to find the key to saving her coven while discovering first love and battling an ancient foe.

Immortal Consequences: A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick

By I. V. Marie

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick!

SIX RIVALS. ONE VICTOR. ETERNITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

“A twisty and thrilling dark academia fantasy that will have you enthralled from the very first page.” —Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

Six students compete to change their fate at a darkly enchanted boarding school in purgatory where graduation is the only escape—and love can cross the boundaries between life and death.

I Am Not a Vampire (Anymore)

By Darcy Miller

Being a teenager bites—literally. When a classmate develops a thirst for blood, one girl must confront her secret supernatural past before things turn deadly. Sink your teeth into this dark and hilarious YA debut from an award-winning author.

Bones at the Crossroads

By LaDarrion Williams

In the sequel to the “unforgettable” (People), New York Times bestselling fantasy debut Blood at the Root, a Black teenager with magical powers returns to Caiman University only to find new dangers and new secrets.

Rainsong

By Lila Riesen

In a small town haunted by unsolved disappearances, a teen with a secret ability must unravel a deadly mystery — before she becomes the next victim.

Live From the Afterlife

By Sarah Lariviere

Set in an alternate America that feels dangerously close to our own, a ghost, the boy she loves, and their friends pick up the pieces of a shattered rebellion–turning from violence to art. Fierce, fast-moving, and full of heart, it’s Feed meets Severance meets Fahrenheit 451.

YA Fantasy Academy Books for Back to School Season

Conant Academy

Agatha Harkness: Fall of the Coven

By Sara Shepard

Blackwood Academy

Immortal Consequences: A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick

By I. V. Marie

Sunrise Harbor High School

I Am Not a Vampire (Anymore)

By Darcy Miller

Caiman University

Bones at the Crossroads

By LaDarrion Williams

Newport Beach High

Rainsong

By Lila Riesen

Champaign High School

Live From the Afterlife

By Sarah Lariviere

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