Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Graceling Realm #1)

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Recommended by a UHS student: “It’s very feminist in a masculine world.”

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