This is an Australian author who's books are really enjoyable - my daughter who is 7 really enjoyed it!

Ranger's apprentice : Ruins of Gorlan
2: The burning Bridge
3: The Ice bound land
4: Oakleaf bearers
5: The sorceror in the North
6: The Seige of Macindaw
7: Erak's Ransom
8: Kings of Clonmel

This author is another Author I would not hesitate to recommend for you if you enjoyed the other two authors

I love Shannon hales books after I happened to read her Book of a 1000 days! - simply wonderful

I also tried some of her other books
Here is a list of her YA book list


Goose Girl
Enna Burning
Princess Academy
River secrets
Austenland
Book of a 1000 Days

Collections:
Door in the Hedge, the (1981)
Knot in the Grain and Other Stories, a (1994)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits (2002)
Anthologies:
Imaginary Lands (1985)
Faery! (1985)
Spells of Enchantment (1991)
Strange Dreams (1993)
Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales, the (1997)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
Novels:
Beauty (1978)
Blue Sword, the (1982)
Hero and the Crown, the (1984)
Outlaws of Sherwood, the (1988)
Deerskin (1994)
Rose Daughter (1997)
Spindle's End (2000)
Sunshine (2003)
Dragonhaven (2007)
Chalice (2008)
Short Stories:
Stolen Princess, the (1981)
Princess and the Frog, the (1981)
Hunting of the Hind, the (1981)
Twelve Dancing Princesses, the (1981)
Healer, the (1982)
Stagman, the (1984)
Touk's House (1985)
Stone Fey, the (1985)
Buttercups (1994)
Knot in the Grain, a (1994)
Sea King's Son, the (2002)
Water Horse (2002)
Pool in the Desert, a (2002)

• Tamora pierce - This is one author I found nearly twenty years ago at a moldy old British library in kent - I still enjoy her! From her series about Alanna and Tortall; through wild magic and Alanna's daughter I thoroughly enjoyed her gripping imaginative work - currently I am reading her just released book Beka: Bloodhound in her newest series about Tortall's past and Alanna's Husband's ancestor. I also enjoyed the circle series books by her too although I am finding the endings a little repetitive in this series especially Evvie's book which I thought was not upto her usual detailed books. But I can not recomend her earlier books enough as they are wonderful!
• Robin McKinley - I have only read some of her books out of which The Blue sword has a special place in my heart!

This is Tamora peirce's list of books

Alanna : The First Adventure -SUPER Series for Younger set
In the hand of the GOddess
The woman who rides like a man
Lioness Rampant

Wild Magic
Wolf Speaker
Emperor Mage
Realms of the Gods

Circle Books
Sandry's Book

Tris's Book
Daja's Book
Briar's Book

Circle Sequel

Magic Steps
Street Magic
Cold Fire
ShatterGlass

Trickster Choice
Tricksters Queen

Further adventures of the Circle quartet
Will of the EMpress
Melting stones -didnt like this as much - not very original

Protector of the small series

Page
Squire
Lady Knight

Beka Cooper - books
Terrier - LOVE BEKA cooper - Alanna's Rougue's ancestor
Bloodhound - 2009 current read

So little time and such a plethora of wonderful word goodies that are such a delight to devour and do not add not one inche to my figure - only my mind!
I wish I were as talented as some of the wonderful authors I read but...... that is another chapter to be looked into later in life for me..

In between rearing two small kids and cooking and cleaning and feeling overwhelmed by all the bad news in between that always almost happen to all of us in life; my one guilty ( well my husband always throws a tantrum! - so I have to actually sneak in a book or two) pleasures is between the pages of a good pageturner..

I am addicted to Young Adult fiction as I am to most adult books too.. I am addicted -really - I have withdrawal symptoms if I do not have a good book to read at least once a week - which gets literly inhaled by me in my haste to read it...I love ,LOVE , LoooOOOOOVE TO READ books.

I find that you get fantastic fiction for young adults and older children that are wasted on most of them(NOT all!!) - pathetic creaturs who only know how to hold a nintendo or a Wii to know action or adventure and do not have enough imagination to blow a candle if you put most of their minds together .. MIND you I only said few not all! so dont come breathing fire around my neck if your sweetie is a bookworm who is no better or worse than I, about books.