Ages 12-18: Best Fantasy World Builder

These authors imagine and create believable, magical, and engrossing places we all wish to visit! As part of the 2021 Kids’ Book Choice Awards, kids choose their top 5 Best Fantasy World Builders among these creative authors. No Adults Allowed!

Kids Vote for Best Fantasy World Building

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Adalyn Grace, author of All the Stars and Teeth
Ari North, author of Always Human
Swati Teerdhala, author of The Archer at Dawn
Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman, authors of Aurora Burning
F.C. Yee, author of Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi
Suzanne Collins, author of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Hannah West, author of The Bitterwine Oath
Malavika Kannan, author of The Bookweaver’s Daughter
Kiersten White, author of The Camelot Betrayal
Cassandra Clare, author of Chain of Gold
Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella Is Dead
Django Wexler, author of City of Stone and Silence
Danielle L. Jensen, author of Dark Skies
Alicia Jasinska, author of The Dark Tide
Justina Ireland, author of Deathless Divide
Frances Hardinge, author of Deeplight
Mark Oshiro, author of Each of Us a Desert
Darcie Little Badger, author of Elatsoe
Laura Sebastian, author of Ember Queen
Rae Carson, author of The Empire of Dreams
Andrea Robertson, author of Forged in Fire and Stars
Alexander Utkin, author of Gamayun Tales I
Sina Grace, author of Ghosted in L.A. Vol. 3
Gena Showalter, author of The Glass Queen
Brigid Kemmerer, author of A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Holly Black, author of How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Robin LaFevers, author of Igniting Darkness
Kim Smejkal, author of Ink in the Blood
Natalie Mae, author of The Kinder Poison
Marie Lu, author of The Kingdom of Back
Jill Criswell, author of Kingdom of Ice and Bone
Tracy Deonn, author of Legendborn
Claire Legrand, author of Lightbringer
Ben Oliver, author of The Loop
Susann Cokal, author of Mermaid Moon
Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea
Marie Rutkoski, author of The Midnight Lie
Lilliam Rivera, author of Never Look Back
Annet Schaap, author of Of Salt and Shore
Jeff Vandermeer, author of A Peculiar Peril
Jennifer Donnelly, author of Poisoned
Matthew Erman, Trey Moore, author of Power Rangers: Sins of the Future
Sarah Henning, author of The Princess Will Save You
Melissa de la Cruz, author of The Queen’s Assassin
Danielle Paige and Kass Morgan, authors of The Ravens
Jordan Ifueko, author of Raybearer
Megan Whalen Turner, author of Return of the Thief
Greg Pak, author of Ronin Island Vol. 3
Jeremy Whitley, author of School For Extraterrestrial Girls Volume 1: Girl on Fire
Lani Forbes, author of The Seventh Sun
Tricia Levenseller, author of The Shadow Between Us
Rebecca Ross, author of Sisters of Sword and Song
Sabaa Tahir, author of A Sky Beyond the Storm
Marie Lu, author of Skyhunter
Bethany C. Morrow, author of A Song Below Water
Margaret Rogerson, author of Sorcery of Thorns
Helena Dahlgren, author of Soul Riders: Jorvik Calling
Alechia Dow, author of The Sound of Stars
Elsie Chapman, author of Spell Starter: A Caster Novel
Jon McGoran, author of Spiked
Emily B. Murphy, author of Splinters of Scarlet
Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights
Neal Shusterman, author of The Toll
Elizabeth Lim, author of Unravel the Dusk
Devri Walls, author of Venators: Legends Rise
Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of The Warrior’s Curse: The Traitor’s Game #3
Carrie Turley, author of What if…? A Poppenohna Land Adventure
Schaeffer, Rebecca, author of When Villains Rise
Rin Chupeco, author of Wicked as You Wish

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