Rise of the Fire Tamer — Kailin Gow

If you like Harry Potter, Chronicle of Narnia, and Neil Gaiman's fantasies, you will love fantasy YA adventure books from Kailin Gow like this one. From the ALA YALSA Award-winning author of the fantasy epic book series - Bitter Frost (Frost Series), currently in production as a multiplayer, multi-platform video game, Kailin Gow, comes the first book in the Wordwick Games Series:

After winning a contest for a popular game called Wordwick Games, five teens Gemma, Sparks, Rio, Kat, and Jack, are invited to stay at Wordwick Games inventor Henry Word's mysterious castle and play the newest level of Workwick Games. Little do they know, the castle is the doorway to a wondrous world call Anachronia where words can be used as weapons, power, and commodity. There is unrest in Anachronia, and if the five teens can follow the rules of Wordwick Games and prove to be the best player, one of them will be crowned Ruler of Anachronia.