Features characters discovering a hidden power,
or learning to control their pre-existing powers.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore – Katsa is a Graceling, one of many children born with a unique power. Hers is to kill. How long can she stand being a corrupt king’s tool?

Nimona by Noelee Stevenson – A shapeshifter teams up with a supervillain to prove that the heroes aren’t as heroic as they seem. And perhaps rob a bank on the way.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – Jacob thought that his grandfather’s claims of a supernatural orphanage was just a fantasy. But when said grandfather is murdered by a tentacle monster, Jacob journeys to the island where these children with strange powers are. And realizes he’s one of them.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare – It’s hard to report a murder when the body vanishes into thin air. Once Clary Fray learns that it’s a demon and that she has the power to see them, her mother’s disappearance pulls her into the world of the Shadowhunters.