Fantasy Fiction
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander 190 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Chronicles of Prydain
Skellig by David Almond 182 pages Grade level: 5-9
- Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. Check our Catalog
Going Through the Gate by Janet Anderson 134 pages Grade level: 5-7
- The five sixth-grade students in a small town prepare for their teacher's annual graduation ceremony, a mysterious ritual that several generations of students have experienced but no one can discuss. Check our Catalog
Whales on Stilts by M.T. Anderson 188 Pages Grade level: 4-6
- Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales. Check our Catalog
- Series: M.T. Anderson’s Thrilling Tales
Ragweed by Avi 178 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time. Check our Catalog
- Series: Poppy and Friends
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt 139 pages Grade level: 4-8
- The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older. Check our Catalog
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks 181 pages Grade level: 4-8
- A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Indian in the Cupboard
Ghost Eye by Marion Dane Bauer 82 pages Grade level: 3-5
- Purrloom Popcorn, an exotically beautiful cat with one blue eye and one gold eye, receives his first real love from a lonely girl and an array of ghost cats. Check our Catalog
Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 160 pages Grade level: 4-8
- After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Wizard of Oz
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley 162 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Orphan Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea. Check our Catalog
Well Wished by Franny Billingsley 170 pages Grade level: 4-6
- In a time of dire need, eleven-year-old Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village. Check our Catalog
Devil's Donkey by Bill Brittain 120 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Dan'l Pitt doesn't believe in magic until he comes up against Old Magda the witch. Check our Catalog
Bone Dance by Martha Brooks 179 pages Grade level: 6-10
- When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits. Check our Catalog
Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess 174 pages Grade level: 6-10
- In seventeenth-century England, twelve-year-old Issy is accused of being a witch and struggles with the belief that she actually does have strange powers. Check our Catalog
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 277 pages Grade level: 5+
- When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. Check our Catalog
- Series: Artemis Fowl
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins 311 pages Grade level: 4-8
- When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Underland Chronicles
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper 252 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Dark is Rising Sequence
King of Shadows Susan Cooper 186 pages Grade level: 5-8
- While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself. Check our Catalog
The Boggart by Susan Cooper 196 pages Grade level: 4-7
- After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. Check our Catalog
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville 148 pages Grade level: 4-7
- Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. Check our Catalog
- Series: Magic Shop Books
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland 342 pages Grade level: 5-8
- In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own. Check our Catalog
- Series: Arthur Trilogy
The Witches by Roald Dahl 201 pages Grade level: 4-8
- A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. Check our Catalog
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 270 pages Grade level: 4-7
- The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Check our Catalog
The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi 107 pages Grade level: 3-6
- When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Spiderwick Chronicles
So You Want to Be a Wizard? by Diane Duane 226 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension. Check our Catalog
- Series: Young Wizards
Half Magic by Edward Eager 192 pages Grade level: 3-6
- Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Check our Catalog
- Sequel: Magic by the Lake
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer 480 pages Grade level: 5-9
- After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. Check our Catalog
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story by Sid Fleischman 134 pages Grade level: 4-6
- When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. Check our Catalog
Dragon’s Milk by Susan Fletcher 256 pages Grade level: 4-7
- Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try to save her younger sister who needs dragon's milk to recover from an illness. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Dragon Chronicles
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 534 pages Grade level: 5-10
- Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Check our Catalog
- Sequels: Inkspell
Coraline by Neil Gaiman 162 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. Check our Catalog
Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori 182 pages Grade level: 4-7
- When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. Check our Catalog
- Series: Pure Dead
The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber 391 pages Grade level: 6-9
- A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him, when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him; but he eventually finds his true heart's desire. Check our Catalog
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban 181 pages Grade level: 4-7
- A wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals and doll house with which they were in the toy shop. Along the way, they make enemies with a dump rat and have many adventures. Check our Catalog
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson 231 pages Grade level: 4-6
- Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son who had been stolen as an infant. Check our Catalog
Dial-A-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson 195 pages Grade level: 4-6
- A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians. Check our Catalog
Redwall by Brian Jacques 351 pages Grade level: 5-8
- When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy. Check our Catalog
- Series: Redwall
The Wolving Time by Patrick Jennings 197 pages Grade level: 5-8
- In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Lazlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl. Check our Catalog
Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones 218 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches. Check our Catalog
- Series: Chrestomanci Quartet
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 212 pages Grade level: 5-10
- Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl. Check our Catalog
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 255 pages Grade level: 5-8
- The mysterious and magical adventures of Milo, who drove his car past the Phantom Tollbooth and discovered The Lands Beyond. Check our Catalog
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle 203 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Time Quartet
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 232 pages Grade level: 5-8
- In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. Check our Catalog
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 189 pages Grade level: 4-7
- Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Check our Catalog
- Series: the Chronicle of Narnia
Dangerous Spaces by Margaret Mahy 154 pages Grade level: 5-8
- A young girl is threatened with being engulfed in a sinister dream world. Check our Catalog
The Stones Are Hatching by Geraldine McCaughrean 130 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Eleven-year-old Phelim and his companions, a Maiden, a Fool, and a strange black Horse, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to destroy the long-forgotten Worm and its Hatchlings, who have been roused from their slumber by the sounds of war. Check our Catalog
The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw 241 pages Grade level: 4-6
- Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given. Check our Catalog
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip 217 pages Grade level: 6-12
- A wizard, accustomed to the company only of great legendary beasts, is introduced to the human world with all its sorrows and delights when a baby comes into her care. Check our Catalog
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 272 pages Grade level: 6-9
- Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. Check our Catalog
- Series: Damar
The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris 212 pages Grade level: 5-9
- In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth as a knight and revealing an important secret about his own true identity. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Squire’s Tale
The Prince of the Pond by Donna Jo Napoli 151 pages Grade level:3-6
- Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family. Check our Catalog
The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli 118 pages Grade level: 6-9
- After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later. Check our Catalog
Witch’s Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 150 pages Grade level: 5-9
- Lynn's growing conviction that her sister is learning witchcraft from a neighbor reaches its peak when Lynn, her sister, and brother are left for a weekend in the neighbor's charge. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Witch
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 292 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Four English children find a wonderful world of magic through an enchanted wishing ring. Check our Catalog
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo 401 pages Grade level: 4-6
- Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking. Check our Catalog
- Series: Children of the Red King
Mister Monday by Garth Nix 361 pages Grade level: 5-9
- Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. Check our Catalog
- Series: Keys to the Kingdom
The Borrowers by Mary Norton 180 pages Grade level: 3-6
- Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Borrowers
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne 68 pages Grade level: 2-4
- Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Magic Tree House
Eragon by Christopher Paolini 509 pages Grade level: 6-12
- In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. Check our Catalog
- Series: Inheritance
Birdy and the Ghosties by Jill Paton Walsh 46 pages Grade level: 1-4
- Birdy helps her father, a ferryman, row passengers across the river or to a nearby island. When three ghosties her father cannot see want to be rowed to an unknown island, Birdy is able to see them. Check our Catalog
The Little Gentleman by Philippa A. Pearce 200 pages Grade level: 3-5
- A young girl's dull life is transformed when she meets and befriends an extraordinary talking mole that likes to be read to and tell of his own past exploits throughout the centuries. Check our Catalog
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce 241 pages Grade level: 5-8
- Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure. Check our Catalog
- Series: Song of the Lioness Quartet
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce 260 pages Grade level: 6-10
- The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Immortals
Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce 252 pages Grade level: 4-7
- Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic. Check our Catalog
- Series: Circle of Magic
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce 422 pages Grade level: 6-10
- Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy. Check our Catalog
- Series: Daughter of the Lioness
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 399 pages Grade level: 5+
- Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. Check our Catalog
- Series: His Dark Materials Trilogy
Clockwork by Philip Pullman 112 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius. Check our Catalog
Witch Child by Celia Rees 261 pages Grade level: 5-9
- In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. Check our Catalog
- Sequel: Sorceress
I, Freddy by Dietlof Reiche 201 pages Grade level: 3-5
- Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Golden Hamster Saga
Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda 151 pages Grade level: 3-6
- Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to drive them back. Check our Catalog
- Series: Rowan of Rin
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 309 pages Grade level: 4+
- Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. Check our Catalog
- Series: Harry Potter
Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant 131 pages Grade level: 3-5
- When a storm separates Stumpy the squirrel from her newborn babies, her animal friends come to the rescue. Check our Catalog
Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka 55 pages Grade level: 3-5
- Joe receives a magic book for his birthday present from his uncle. Joe, Fred and Sam are transported to a time when evil knights, fire-breathing dragons and vile-smelling giants roamed the land. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Time Warp Trio
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 203 pages Grade level: 4-8
- Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Stanley Family
Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest by Nancy Springer 170 pages Grade level: 4-7
- In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage. Check our Catalog
- Series: Tales of Rowan Hood
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud 462 pages Grade level: 6-12
- Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 300 pages Grade level: 5+
- Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return. Check our Catalog
- Prequel to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers 202 pages Grade level: 3-7
- An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences. Check our Catalog
- Series: Mary Poppins
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner 219 pages Grade level: 5-9
- Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. Check our Catalog
- Sequels: The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia
The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh 212 pages Grade level: 4-8
- The Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, see their peaceful existence threatened when the house's owner announces he is coming from Australia for a visit. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Mennyms
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White 256 pages Grade level: 6+
- This story recreates, against the background of magnificent pageantry and dark magic that was medieval England, the education and training of young King Arthur, who was to become the greatest of Britain's legendary rulers. Check our Catalog
- Series: The Once and Future King
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop 179 pages Grade level: 4-6
- A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest. Check our Catalog
- Sequel: The Battle for the Castle
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding 292 pages Grade level: 7-12
- As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed. Check our Catalog
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede 212 pages Grade level: 5-9
- Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. Check our Catalog
- Series: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Dragon of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep 213 pages Grade level: 6-9
- Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy. Check our Catalog
- Series: Dragon Series
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen 133 pages Grade level: 3-6
- A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself. Check our Catalog
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