My neighbor's daughter read the Percy Jackson series recently. I don't really know much about it beyond the fact that it involves Greek mythology... somehow.
I think the last young adult-ish fantasy series I read was The Dark Is Rising Sequence, which is excellent stuff. Very charmingly British (and Welsh, for that matter).
I'm nearing 50% of the way through of Monte Cristo in the meantime, though.
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"Luxe, calme et volupte." - Charles Baudelaire, The Invitation to the Voyage