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Modern Fantasy
Teaching Resources Center, Joyner Library
A Selective Annotated Bibliography
Titles in the Teaching Resources Center are cataloged with Dewey call numbers and are
preceded by Curric. Please ask someone at the Teaching Resources Service Desk if you
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Level
Title Information
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Number
BIG BOOKS
PreK-2
Roberts, Bethany. A Mouse Told His Mother. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman,
2000.
A little mouse's imagination makes his bedtime an exciting adventure, as he
takes a fantasy trip to catch crocodiles, ride bucking broncos, and sail where
the wind blows.
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PreK-2
Becker, Aaron. Journey. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013.
Using a red marker, a young girl draws a door on her bedroom wall and
through it enters another world where she experiences many adventures,
including being captured by an evil emperor.
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K-2
Berry, Julie, and April Lee. Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book!. Los
Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.
A boy discovers a medieval Book of Beasts and uses it to invent a tale of
heroic deeds. Each time he says the name of an animal, it magically emerges
from the book, causing a day full of hilarity and mayhem at the castle.
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PreK-2
Burningham, John. It’s a Secret! Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009.
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Every night Marie-Elaine's cat, Malcolm, goes out, and every morning he
comes back in and sleeps. "Where do cats go at night?" the girl wonders. So
when she sees him at his cat door dressed to the nines, she begs to come
along. And amazingly, Malcolm agrees, as long as she puts on her fancy
clothes, gets small, and keeps it all a secret.
PreK-K
Child, Lauren, Carol Noble, and Bridget Hurst. I Can Do Anything That's
Everything All On My Own. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2008.
Today Lola wants to do everything all on her own, but things aren't as easy
as she thought they'd be. In the park, when Charlie and his friend Marv
explain to Lola that a seesaw won't "see" or "saw" with only one person on
it, Lola reluctantly lets them sit on the other end. When Lola soars into the
sky, it launches her into an elaborate high-seas fantasy where she saves Marv
and Charlie from ever-soevil pirates. All on her own!
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PreK-3
Colfer, Eoin. Imaginary Fred. New York: Harper, 2015.
Did you know that if the conditions are just right and if you add a little
electricity, or magic, or luck that an imaginary friend might appear just when
you need one? An imaginary friend like... Fred? Fred is the best imaginary
friend you could hope for, but no matter how hard he tries, the same thing
always happens: his friend finds a real friend in the real world, and Fred
fades away, bit by bit, waiting to be wished for again... Then one day, a boy
called Sam wishes for a friend, and Fred appears! For a while, everything is
perfect. But what about the day when Sam finds a real friend? Could it be
that this time, something magical might happen?
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K-2
Domingo, Jose. Pablo & Jane and the Hot Air Contraption. New York:
Flying Eye Books, 2015.
A strange green glow is coming from the old house up on the hill, and when
Pablo and Jane decide to inquire they make an unexpected discovery!
Zapped into the Monster Dimension by the evil cat, Dr. Felinibus, they must
now find a way home in the broken Hot Air Time Machine, with a little help
from their friend Dr. Jules (a nineteenth century scientist trapped inside the
body of a rat).
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K-4
Faulkner, Matt. The Moon Clock. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1991.
A young girl journeys to a faraway place and finds the inner strength to
confront the bullies of other worlds and her own.
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K-3
Fox, Jennifer, et al. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader: Aboard the Dawn Treader. New York, NY: Harper, 2010.
A level 2 I Can Read companion story to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
for younger fans of The Chronicles of Narnia. Featuring simple text and
photo stills from the epic movie, this is the perfect way to get to know the
passengers of the Dawn Treader. Welcome aboard the royal vessel of King
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Caspian! Meet our captain, Lord Drinian; Sir Reepicheep, the bravest of all
mice; Edmund and Lucy Pevensie and their cousin Eustace Scrubb; and
others as they search for the seven lost lords of Narnia.
K-3
Fox, Jennifer, et al. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn
Treader: Quest for the Lost Lords. New York, NY: Harper, 2010.
A level 2 I Can Read companion story to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
for younger fans of The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring simple text and
photo stills from the epic movie. When Edmund, Lucy and Eustace are
pulled into Narnia through a painting, they find themselves aboard the Dawn
Treader, the ship of their friend King Caspian. Together, they must find and
rescue the seven lords who were exiled by the evil Miraz, King Caspian's
uncle.
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K-3
Fox, Jennifer, Ann Peacock, and C. S Lewis. Tea with Mr. Tumnus. New
York, NY: HarperCollins, 2005.
When Lucy stumbles unexpectedly into the magical land of Narnia, she is
afraid she will never make it back home. Luckily she meets a friendly Faun
named Mr. Tumnus, who offers Lucy afternoon tea and helps her find her
way.
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PreK-K
Freeman, Don. Corduroy. New York: Viking Press, 1968.
A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little
girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
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PreK-3
Grant, Holly, and K. G Campbell. Wee Sister Strange. First edition. New
York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2017.
With a lyrical text and gorgeous, ethereal illustrations, here is a mesmerizing
and magical original bedtime fairy tale reminiscent of Emily Winfield
Martin's Dream Animals, and perfect for reading aloud.
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PreK-3
Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon. [New York]: Harper &
Row, 1955.
Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple
crayon.
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PreK-3
Johnson, Crockett. Harold's Fairy Tale: Further Adventures with the Purple
Crayon. [United States]: HarperCollins, 1984.
With the purple crayon Harold draws his way into an enchanted garden
troubled by a giant witch.
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PreK-3
Johnson, Crockett. Magic Beach. Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2005.
Two children find themselves in a story when they write words in the sand
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on the beach, and whatever they have written appears when the waves wash
the words away.
PreK-3
Joyce, William, and Andrew Theophilopoulos. Jack Frost. First edition. New
York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Although frozen in time, Jack Frost brings warmth to children everywhere.
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PreK-K
Kantorovitz, Sylvie. Zig and the Magic Umbrella. New York: Dial Books for
Young Readers, 2015.
Zig, a small, blue creature who lives in a rainy, gray world, grabs hold of a
red umbrella and is carried away to a colorful forest where he becomes a
hero--and a friend.
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PreK-3
Lê, Minh, and Dan Santat. Drawn Together. First edition. Los Angeles:
Disney-Hyperion, 2018.
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their
shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
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Lillegard, Dee. Tiger, Tiger. New York: G.P. Putnam, 2002.
A bored young boy uses a magic feather to form a tiger, and then must use
the feather to save his village when the tiger gets hungry.
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Lucas, David. The Lying Carpet. London: Andersen Press, 2008.
Imagine a typical living room in a large house. It has a tiger rug on the floor,
a statue of a little girl on the windowsill, and an armchair. And they talk. The
tiger cannot see anything except the baseboard because he is lying on the
floor, and the chair can only look at the opposite wall. And then the statue
comes to life. The conversation that ensues is highly individual!
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K-3
The Nutcracker: A Story of Christmas Magic. Franklin, TN: Flowerpot
Press, 2012.
The fantasy story of a magical Christmas, featuring the dance of the sugar
plum fairy, comes to life for children in this keepsake edition of a classic
Christmas story.
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K-3
Ogburn, Jacqueline K. The Magic Nesting Doll. New York: Dial Books,
2000.
After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the
Tsarvitch has been turned into living ice and she uses the magic nesting dolls
her babushka had given her to try to break the curse.
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PreK-1
Rex, Adam. Moonday. First edition. New York: Disney Hyperion, 2013.
When the Moon disrupts a town by lowering itself into someone's backyard,
a child finds a way to return the Moon to its proper place in the sky.
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K-3
Sabuda, Robert. The Dragon & The Knight: A Pop-Up Misadventure. New
York: Little, Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing Division, 2014.
A brave knight chases a dragon through the land of fairy tales, speeding
through Rapunzel, flying through Aladdin, and blowing through The Three
Little Pigs. Find out if the Knight will be triumphant!
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PreK-3
Santat, Dan. Are We There Yet? Boston: Brown, Little and Company, 2016.
A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discovers time
moves faster or slower depending on how bored he is.
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K-3
Sarah, Linda. Big Friends. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Best friends Etho and Birt love going up Sudden Hill and sitting in simple
cardboard boxes imagining they are kings, soldiers, astronauts, or pirates
until Shu asks to join them, and their "two-by-two rhythm" is disturbed.
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PreK-3
Sendak, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen. 25th anniversary ed. [New York]:
HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.
A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for
their cake batter.
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K-3
Sendak, Maurice, Mary Jarrell, and Randall Jarrell. Where the Wild Things
Are. [New York]: Harper & Row, 1963.
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the
wild things where he becomes their king.
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K-4
Seuss, Dr. Bartholomew and the Oobleck. New York: Random House, 1949.
The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to
make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in
sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves
the kingdom.
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K-3
Seuss, Dr. Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?. New York: Random
House, 1973.
Compared to the problems of some of the creatures the old man describes,
the boy is really quite lucky.
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PreK-3
Seuss, Dr. Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book. New York: Random House, 1962.
Tells, in verse, what happens when all ninety-nine zillion nine trillion and
three creatures in the world go to sleep.
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PreK-2
Stimpson, Colin. Jack and the Baked Beanstalk. Somerville, MA: Templar
Books, 2012.
After their café fails, Jack takes his mother's last few pennies and exchanges
them for a can of magic baked beans that then lead Jack on a journey to a
giant who is bored with counting his fortune.
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PreK-K
Yi, Chi-hyon. Pool. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2015.
Two shy children meet at a noisy pool and dive beneath the crowd into a
magical undersea land, where they explore a fantastical landscape and meet
various creatures.
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PreK-3
Zagarenski, Pamela. The Whisper. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a
little girl to imagine a story for each page.
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FICTION
9-12
Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone. First edition. New York, NY:
Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari
fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but
they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of
magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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7-12
Aguirre, Ann. Enclave. New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2011.
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings
back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is
partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict
ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.
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7-12
Alanguilan, Gerry. Elmer. San Jose, CA: SLG Pub., 2010.
Jake Gallo, an intelligent chicken, returns to the farm where his father,
Elmer, one of the first sentient chickens, is dying, where he reads Elmer's
diary and talks to the man who protected his parents before chickens were
declared human.
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7-12
Albert, Melissa. The Hazel Wood: A Novel. First edition. New York, NY:
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Flatiron Books, 2018.
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on
the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels.
But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of
pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns
how bad her luck can really get.
4-6
Alexander, Lloyd. The Black Cauldron. 1st Henry Holt pbk. ed. New York:
H. Holt, 2010.
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks
the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of
Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.
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Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three. 1st Square Fish ed. New York: Square
Fish/Henry Holt, 2011.
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a
hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
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Alexander, Lloyd. The Castle of Llyr. New York: Square Fish/Henry Holt,
2011.
When Princess Eilonwy is sent to the Isle of Mona for training, she is
bewitched by the evil enchantress Achren, so Taran and other friends must
try to rescue her.
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3-7
Alexander, Lloyd. Taran Wanderer. 1st Square Fish ed. New York: Square
Fish/H. Holt, 2011.
Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer -- he has become a hero. Now he
dreams of winning the hand of Princess Eilonwy, but how can someone who
has spent his whole life caring for a pig hope to marry royalty? Taran must
find out who he really is.
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3-7
Alexander, William. Goblin Secrets. New York: Margaret K. McElderry
Books, 2012.
Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba
and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans
are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
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2-5
Almond, David. Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf. Somerville, MA: Candlewick
Press, 2013.
Using sticks, leaves, and clay, Little Ben makes a mouse, Sue, a bird, and
Harry, a snake, but when they create a terrifying wolf that turns on them,
Little Ben must summon the courage to save them.
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9-12
Anders, Charlie Jane. All the Birds In the Sky. First edition. New York: Tor,
a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2016.
Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's
magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly
repair the world's ever-growing ailments. Neither Laurence nor Patricia can
keep pace with the speed at which things fall apart. But something bigger
than either of them, something begun deep in their childhoods, is determined
to bring them together. And will!
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8-12
Anderson, Jodi Lynn, and J. M Barrie. Tiger Lily. New York: HarperTeen,
2012.
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual
forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy--
Peter Pan--and falls in love with him.
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5-9
Anderson, M. T, and Eugene Yelchin. The Assassination of Brangwain
Spurge. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press,
2018.
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission…Brangwain's host,
the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They
should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses,
blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling
scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for
them -- and war for their nations. Witty mixed media illustrations show
Brangwain's furtive missives back to the elf kingdom, while Werfel's
determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story.
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9-12
Anderson, Robert Luis. Dreamland. First edition. New York: HarperTeen, an
imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people's dreams since she was
six years old, but when Dea breaks the rules, dreams start to become reality.
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Appelt, Kathi, and Alison McGhee. Maybe a Fox. First Edition. New York:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016.
An otherworldly fox is born to help eleven-year-old Jules, who is grieving
over the death of her sister.
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4-6
Applegate, Katherine. Crenshaw. First Square Fish edition. New York:
Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2018.
A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in
unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary.
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5-9
Armstrong, Kelley, and Xavière Daumarie. A Royal Guide to Monster
Slaying. [Toronto, Ont.]: Puffin Canada, an imprint of Penguin
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Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House
Company, 2019.
Twelve-year-old Rowan is next in line to be Queen; her twin brother, Rhydd,
to be Royal Monster Hunter. Rowan would give anything to switch places,
but the rule is, the oldest child is next in line, even if she is only older by two
minutes. Accompanied by a feisty and determined baby jackalope and a giant
wolf that barely tolerates her, she sets off on a journey that will see her join
forces with other unlikely allies: a boy who has ambitions of his own to hunt
monsters, and a girl from a nearby clan with hidden motives for befriending
Rowan. It will take all of Rowan's skills, both physical and diplomatic, to
keep this journey on track. The future of the kingdom depends on it.
9-12
Arnold, Elana K. Damsel. First edition. New York: Balzer + Bray, An Imprint
of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory,..she has no memory of what
came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its
lair. She knows only this handsome young man, the story he tells of her
rescue, and her destiny of sitting on a throne beside him. It's all like a dream,
like something from a fairy tale. As Ama follows Emory to the kingdom of
Harding, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems. There is more to
the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the
greatest threats may not be behind her, but around her, now, and closing in.
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Auxier, Jonathan. Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes: A Story. New York:
Amulet Books, 2011.
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a
mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden
island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
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7-12
Azad, Nafiza. The Candle and the Flame. First edition. New York:
Scholastic Press, 2019.
Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently
protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent
and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit
who died saving her when she was four years old, and when one of the most
important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the
affairs of the djinn, and the very real dangers of a magical battlefield.
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Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2000.
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 older.
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3-6
Banks, Angelica, and Stevie Lewis. A Week Without Tuesday. First
American edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Real and imaginary worlds are colliding so Tuesday and Baxterr, at the
request of the Librarian, venture to find the Gardener--the one person who
can stop this catastrophe--but will they be able to save the land of story?
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7-12
Bardugo, Leigh, and Sara Kipin. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales
and Dangerous Magic. First edition. New York: Imprint, 2017.
Travel to Grishaverse, a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of
haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems,
where a young mermaid's voice can summon deadly storms and where a
river might do a lovestruck boy's bidding but only for a terrible price.
Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a
deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals,
revenge, sacrifice, and love.
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5-9
Barnhill, Kelly Regan. The Girl Who Drank the Moon. First edition. Chapel
Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Young Readers, 2016.
An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a
Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep
inside her.
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4-7
Barrie, J. M, and Robert Ingpen. Peter Pan and Wendy. 1st Sterling ed. New
York: Sterling, 2010.
The adventures of the three Darling children in Neverland with Peter Pan, the
boy who would not grow up.
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6-8
Bell, Ted. The Time Pirate: A Nick McIver Time Adventure. New York: St.
Martin's Griffin, 2010.
It's 1940 and the Nazis are invading Nick's beloved home, the British
Channel Islands. So Nick takes to the skies: He has discovered an old World
War One fighter plane in an abandoned barn. Determined to learn to fly, he
is soon risking life and limb to photograph armed German minelayers and
patrol boats and executing incredibly perilous bombing raids over Nazi
airfields at night. Meanwhile, the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, still
desperate to acquire Nick's time machine, returns to Greybeard Islands,
kidnaps Nick's sister, Kate, and transports her back to Port Royal, Jamaica, in
the year 1781.
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4-7
Bemis, John Claude. The Nine Pound Hammer. 1st Bluefire ed. New York:
Bluefire, 2011.
Drawn by the lodestone his father gave him years before, twelve-year-old
orphan Ray travels south, meeting along the way various characters from
folklore who are battling against an evil industry baron known as the Gog.
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3-7
Bemis, John Claude. Lord of Monsters. First edition. Los Angeles: Disney-
Hyperion, 2017.
Pinocchio and Lazuli encounter dangerous creatures thought to be long gone
from Abaton in this sequel to The Wooden Prince.
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3-7
Bemis, John Claude. The Wooden Prince. First edition. Los Angeles: Disney,
Hyperion, 2016.
Desperate to save her father, Princess Lazuli, the daughter of the ruler of a
magical kingdom called Abaton, enlists the help of the automa Pinocchio and
his master, wanted criminal and alchemist Geppetto, who are trying to
discover why Pinocchio seems to be changing from a wooden servant into a
living, human boy.
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9-12
Berry, Julie. Lovely War. New York: Viking, 2019.
In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the
hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and
Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-
turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a
Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as
told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares,
is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that,
though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of
Love.
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9-12
Black, Holly. The Cruel Prince. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and
Company, 2018.
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her
two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie.
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions,
she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal
threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her
life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
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5-8
Black, Holly, Cassandra Clare, and Scott M Fischer. The Iron Trial. First
edition. New York: Scholastic Press, 2014.
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials
that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks
against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
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8-12
Black, Holly, and Theodor Black. The Poison Eaters and Other Stories.
Easthampton, MA: Big Mouth House, 2010.
A girl wagers her soul in a sour-gummy-frog-eating contest with the devil.
Love and a homemade coat rescue a boy from his fairyland jailers. A newly
bitten teenage vampire uses the Internet to show the world just how uncool
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the "cold" life is. In this collection of stories, the supernatural intersects with
everyday life in surprising and dangerous ways.
3-7
Blackwood, Sage. Jinx. New York: Harper, 2013.
An orphaned boy named Jinx encounters magic and danger as he grows up in
the deep, dark forest known as the Urwald and discovers that the world
beyond--and within--the Urwald is more complex than he could imagine.
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9-12
Blake, Kendare. Three Dark Crowns. First edition. New York, NY:
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
On the night of their sixteenth birthday, a set of triplet sisters, each born a
queen with her own unique magical power, must fight each other to the death
with the last queen standing getting the crown.
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5-9
Boos, Ben. Fantasy: An Artist's Realm. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick
Press, 2010.
Readers are invited to immerse themselves in the sovereignty of New
Perigord, brought to life through the artistry of the author and illustrator, Ben
Boos.
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7-12
Bow, Erin. Plain Kate. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010.
Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to
think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans
help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.
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4-8
Bracken, Beth, Kay Fraser, and Odessa Sawyer. Wish. North Mankato, Minn.:
Capstone Young Readers, 2013.
This work is combination of four previously published works, including A
Wish in the Woods, The Shadows, Bloodfate, and The Willow Queen's Gate;
edited to form a single narrative. Follows best friends Lucy and Soledad's
adventures in Faerieground where they discover the dark secret of the Queen,
and confront their own identities.
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9-12
Braxton-Smith, Ananda. Merrow. First U.S. edition. Somerville,
Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2016.
Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after
her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she
becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island
home.
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Brown, Palmer. The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2012.
One dull, dry day Anna Livinia meets Toby, who invites her into the
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wondrous world on the other side of Dew Pond, where she encounters an
uncanny fortuneteller, experiences the fun of no gravity, and hears Aunt
Cornelia's tale of her beloved who disappeared into Anna's world.
7-12
Buckley, Michael. Undertow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
A sixteen-year-old girl is caught in an epic clash of civilizations when a
society of undersea warriors marches out of the ocean into modern-day
Coney Island.
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Bunce, Elizabeth C. Liar's Moon. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.
In a quest to prove her friend, Lord Durrel Decath, innocent of the murder of
his wife, pickpocket Digger stumbles into a conspiracy with far-reaching
consequences for the civil war raging in Lllyvraneth, while also finding
herself falling in love.
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Bunce, Elizabeth C. Starcrossed. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010.
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a
street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends
are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn
them in.
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Burns, Laura J., and Liam Peters. Bewitched In Oz. North Mankato,
Minnesota: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, 2015.
Sorcery is forbidden in the land of Oz, so for two years Zerie, Vashti, and
Tabitha have practiced magic in secret, fearing that otherwise their talents
will be taken away--but when they are finally exposed they discover that
there are more dangerous secrets in Oz than they ever suspected.
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3-7
Calabrese, Keith. A Drop of Hope. First edition. New York: Scholastic Press,
2019.
Times are tough in the small town of Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio (sarcastically
called If Only) especially for some of the kids at Rod Serling Middle School,
but then an old dry well suddenly begins to grant wishes, or so it seems--
three of the students, Ernest Wilmette, Ryan Hardy, and Lizzy MacComber,
know what is happening (but do they really?), because sometimes a good
deed can make magic happen.
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Cameron, Sophie. Last Bus to Everland. First American edition. New York:
Roaring Brook Press, 2019.
Brody Fair feels like nobody gets him: not his overworked parents, not his
genius older brother, and definitely not the girls in the projects set on making
his life miserable. Then he meets Nico, an art student who takes Brody to
Everland, a "knock-off Narnia" that opens its door at 11:21 pm each
Thursday for Nico and his band of present-day misfits and miscreants. Here
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Brody finds his tribe and a weekly respite from a world where he feels out of
place. But when the doors to Everland begin to disappear, Brody is forced to
make a decision: He can say goodbye to Everland and to Nico, or stay there
and risk never seeing his family again. Will Nico take the last bus to
Everland?
9-12
Capetta, Amy Rose. The Lost Coast. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts:
Candlewick Press, 2019.
Danny didn't know what she was looking for when she and her mother
spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on
Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who
throw around terms like queer and witch like they're ordinary and every day,
though they feel like an earthquake to Danny. But Danny didn't just find the
Grays…She finds a dead boy with a redwood branch through his heart.
Something is very wrong amid the trees and fog of the Lost Coast, and
whatever it is, it can kill.
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Carey, Janet Lee. Dragonswood. New York: Dial Books, 2012.
In AD 1192 on Wilde Island, Tess, the daughter of a cruel blacksmith, is
accused of witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a handsome and
enigmatic warden of Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not
realize that he too harbors a secret that may finally bring about peace among
the races of dragon, human, and fairy.
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Carson, Rae. The Girl of Fire and Thorns. New York: Greenwillow Books,
2011.
A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being
married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by
enemies seething with dark magic.
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Cashore, Kristin. Bitterblue. New York: Dial Books, 2012.
Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy
responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with
lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast
by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
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3-7
Catanese, P. W. Dragon Games. 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. New York:
Aladdin, 2010.
Having learned more about his mysterious past, Happenstance accompanies
Lord Umber on a daring journey that could affect the future of Kuraharen.
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Chapman, Elsie. Caster. First edition. New York: Scholastic Press, 2019.
Aza Wu knows that casting magic can kill--it killed her sister--but she needs
money desperately to pay off Saint Willow, who controls her sector of
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Lotusland, and save the family teahouse, so she secretly enters an
underground casting tournament--and finds herself competing against other
castors with "full magic," and where even victory could cause her to lose her
freedom, her magic, and her life.
4-6
Chokshi, Roshani. Aru Shah and the End of Time. First edition. New York,
New York: Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group, 2018.
Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but
when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees
an ancient demon.
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Clark, Platte F. Fluff Dragon. First Aladdin hardcover edition. New York:
Aladdin, 2014.
The second book in the Bad Unicorn trilogy features killer unicorns, good
dragons, rogue fire kittens, and a boy who just might be a wizard.
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9-12
Clayton, Dhonielle. The Belles. First edition. New York, N. Y.: Freeform
Books, 2018.
Camellia Beauregard wants to be the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orléans
to live in the royal palace, to tend to the royal family and their court, to be
recognized as the most talented Belle in the land. But she soon finds that
behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets. When the queen asks
Camellia to risk her own life and help the ailing princess by using Belle
powers in unintended ways, Camellia faces an impossible decision.
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Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. New York: Crown Publishers, 2011.
Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding
three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of
OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be
hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday's fortune.
But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual
world.
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Cogman, Genevieve. The Lost Plot: An Invisible Library Novel. New York:
Ace, 2018.
Irene and Kai are locked in a race against time (and dragons) to procure a
rare book. They'll face gangsters, blackmail, and the Library's own Internal
Affairs department. And if it doesn't end well, it could have dire
consequences on Irene's job. And, incidentally, on her life.
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Cogman, Genevieve. The Mortal Word: An Invisible Library Novel. First
edition. New York: Ace, 2018.
Time-travelling Librarian spy Irene must discover who killed an important
figure at a dragon-Fae peace conference, or people close to her may bear the
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cost of her failure.
3-7
Colfer, Chris, and Brandon Dorman. The Land of Stories: The Enchantress
Returns. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their
own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy
tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the
Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
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Colfer, Chris, and Brandon Dorman. The Land of Stories: A Grimm
Warning. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites
with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy
Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
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Colfer, Chris, and Brandon Dorman. The Land of Stories: The Wishing
Spell. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex
and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land
full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale
characters they grew up reading about.
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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control
through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from
each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's
skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic
Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen
and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and
their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly
become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic
Press, 2010.
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a
target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who
will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and
serve as their pawn.
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Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising. New York: Margaret K. McElderry
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Books, 2013.
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers
an astounding gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals who fight
to keep the powers of evil, the Dark, from taking over the world…But the
Dark has already sent out the Rider -- evil cloaked in black, mounted on a
midnight stallion -- and has far worse in store. Will must find the six great
signs -- wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, and stone -- before the Dark begins
its dreadful rise.
GR2
9-12
Dabos, Christelle, and Hildegarde Serle. A Winter's Promise. New York,
N.Y.: Europa Editions, 2018.
Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her idyllic
life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a
taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she
knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy
ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody
can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband,
Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have
far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.
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Dahl, Michael, and Ben Kovar. Skyfall. North Mankato, Minn.: Stone Arch
Books, 2012.
During a meteor shower above the town of Zion Falls, Pablo and his friends
discover that some monsters are real when they are attacked by hungry trolls.
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Dahl, Roald, and Quentin Blake. James and the Giant Peach. New York,
NY: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of
adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
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DasGupta, Sayantani, and Vivienne To. Game of Stars. First edition. New
York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2019.
Months after Kiranmala's adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, a vision of the
Demon Queen starts showing up in her bedroom, trying to tell Kiran
something, but getting cutoff before she can finish; then she starts seeing an
advertisement for an archery contest on her family's interdimensional
television and Kiran realizes that she must return to her place of birth--where
society is falling apart, a reality show is taking over, her friends are in
danger, and she, once again, becomes the warrior princess she was meant to
be.
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DasGupta, Sayantani, and Vivienne To. The Serpent's Secret. First edition.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2018.
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary
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sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a
drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into
another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very
annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out,
find her parents, and basically save the world.
7-12
Davis, Charlotte Nicole. The Good Luck Girls. First edition. New York: Tor
Teen, 2019.
In an alternate wild West, five girls escape from the welcome house that
owns them and embark on a dangerous journey to find freedom, justice, and
revenge.
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De la Cruz, Melissa. Gates of Paradise: A Blue Bloods Novel. First edition.
New York: Hyperion, 2013.
In the final installment of the Blue Bloods series, the young vampires of
Manhattan must make terrible sacrifices in order to triumph over Lucifer and
the Silver Bloods.
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9-12
Derting, Kimberly. The Pledge. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books,
2011.
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages
they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when
she meets a mysterious young man named Max.
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Deutsch, Barry. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword. New York: Amulet,
2010.
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends
her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox
Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious
witch, Mirka just might win her dragon-fighting sword after all.
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Donnelly, Jennifer. Stepsister. First edition. New York: Scholastic Press,
2019.
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an
attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a
maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and
the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also
the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find
her true self.
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Dowell, Frances O’Roark. Falling In. New York: Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, 2010.
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet
and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the
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witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
3-7
Durham, Paul, and Pétur Antonsson. The Luck Uglies. First Edition. New
York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Rye O'Chanter has seen a lot of strange things happen in Village Drowning.
She and her friends have grown up on Drowning's treacherous
streets…There's nobody left who can protect the village. There was once --
an exiled secret society so notorious that its name can't be spoken out loud.
The Luck Uglies. As Rye dives into Drowning's maze of secrets, rules, and
lies, she begins to question everything she's been told about the village's
legend of outlaws and beasts... and what she'll discover is that it may take a
villain to save them from the monsters.
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Elliott, David. Bull. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Much like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in Hamilton, New York Times best-
selling author David Elliott turns a classic on its head in form and approach,
updating the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur for a new
generation. A rough, rowdy, and darkly comedic young adult retelling in
verse, Bull will have readers re-evaluating one of history's most infamous
monsters.
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Elliott, Zetta, and Geneva B. Dragons In a Bag. First edition. New York:
Random House Children's Books, 2018.
In Brooklyn, nine-year-old Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in
his building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world, and
along the way discovers his true calling.
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Elliott, Zetta. A Wish After Midnight. Las Vegas, NV: AmazonEncore, 2010.
Genna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn
neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone
awry transports her back in time. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War-
era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive.
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Epstein, Adam Jay, et al. The Familiars. New York: Harper, 2010.
A scrappy alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical animal
companion to Jack, a young wizard in training, but must convince his fellow
"familiars" that he is authentic.
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Fforde, Jasper. The Last Dragonslayer. First U.S. edition. Boston: Harcourt,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed
magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the
death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big
Magic.
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7-12
Fisher, Catherine. Relic Master: The Dark City. New York: Dial Books for
Young Readers, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter
the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while
evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi
and Galen belong.
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Fisher, Catherine. Relic Master: The Hidden Coronet. New York: Dial
Books, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Raffi and Master Galen continue to evade the Watch as they
seek the Coronet, a potent ancient relic that could be their only hope for
defeating the power that is destroying Anara.
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Fisher, Catherine. Relic Master: The Lost Heiress. New York: Dial Books for
Young Readers, 2011.
Even though the city of Tasceron and its emperor have fallen, when Master
Galen and his sixteen-year-old apprentice Raffi hear a rumor that the heiress
to the throne still lives, they must try to find her and keep her safe.
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Flanagan, John. Brotherband Chronicles: The Invaders. 1st American ed.
New York: Philomel Books, 2012.
Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates
who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal.
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Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja. 1st
American ed. New York: Philomel Books, 2011.
In a faraway land, a young warrior must protect an emperor from an uprising
and train an inexperienced army, with assistance from his Ranger friends.
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Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: Erak's Ransom. 1st American ed.
New York: Philomel Books, 2010.
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends
find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
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5-12
Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: Halt's Peril. 1st American ed. New
York: Philomel Books, 2010.
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is
determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but
Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the
test.
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Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: The Kings of Clonmel. 1st American
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ed. New York: Philomel Books, 2010.
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group,
the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets
from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom
is undermined.
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Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw. New York:
Puffin Books, 2010.
Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue
knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
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Fletcher, Susan. Ancient, Strange, and Lovely. New York: Atheneum Books
for Young Readers, 2010.
Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a
dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so
ancient.
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Forest, Laurie. The Black Witch. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Harlequin
Teen, 2017.
Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch,
Carnissa Gardner… But while she is the absolute spitting image of her
famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that
prizes magical ability above all else…As evil looms on the horizon and the
pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she
knew will be challenged and torn away. Her best hope of survival may be
among the most unlikely band of misfits --if only she can find the courage to
trust those she's been taught to hate and fear.
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Gaiman, Neil. The Ocean At the End of the Lane. First edition. New York,
NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their
car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left
undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it
will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror
here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have
gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end
of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The
oldest can remember the Big Bang.
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Gallagher, Brad. Escape From Zobadak. Watertown, MA: Mackinac Island
Press, 2011.
After his Uncle Gary disappears, Billy Fyfe, his sister Sophie, and their
friends enter a corridor they found in the cabinet he left behind, as the men of
the Zobadak Wood Company prowl through their neighborhood, also
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determined to find Uncle Gary.
9-12
Garber, Stephanie. Caraval. First Flatiron Books paperback edition. New
York: Flatiron Books, 2018.
Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives…Scarlett has been told
that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate
performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love,
heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether
Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game
are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister
disappears forever. Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting
swept too far away.
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George, Jessica Day. Tuesdays At the Castle. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Eleven-year-old Princess Celie lives with her parents, the king and queen,
and her brothers and sister at Castle Glower, which adds rooms or stairways
or secret passageways most every Tuesday, and when the king and queen are
ambushed while travelling, it is up to Celie--the castle's favorite--with her
secret knowledge of its never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home
and save their kingdom.
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Gibbs, Stuart, and Alexandre Dumas. The Last Musketeer. First edition. New
York: Harper, 2011.
In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg
Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past and is aided by
boys who will one day be known as "The Three Musketeers."
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Gidwitz, Adam, Jacob Grimm, and Wilhelm Grimm. A Tale of Dark and
Grimm: The Grimm Conclusion. New York, New York: Dutton
Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay
together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired
stories.
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Gidwitz, Adam, et al. Unicorn Rescue Society: The Basque Dragon. New
York, NY: Dutton Children's Books, 2018.
Elliot and Uchenna join Professor Fauna on another adventure--a trip to the
Basque country where they have to save a herensuge from the billionaire
Schmoke Brothers.
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Gidwitz, Adam, et al. Unicorn Rescue Society: The Chupacabras of the Río
Grande. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2019.
A new adventure begins for Elliot and Uchenna when Professor Fauna bursts
into their classroom with a frightening report from the Texas-Mexico border:
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something has completely drained the blood from a cow's body! The team
must fly to Laredo, where tempers are running high. Teaming up with local
kids Lupita and Mateo--plus their brilliant mother, Dr. Alejandra Cervantes,
and her curandero husband, Israel--can the Unicorn Rescue Society save the
region's animals and help bring a divided community together once more?
And what is that spiny, bloodsucking, adorable little creature?
2-5
Gidwitz, Adam, and Hatem Aly. Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of
the Pines. New York, NY: Dutton Children's Books, 2018.
After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens,
Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna
rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
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Gidwitz, Adam, Joseph Bruchac, and Hatem Aly. Unicorn Rescue Society:
Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot. New York, NY: Dutton Children's
Books, 2018.
Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the
Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of
journalists and a logging company.
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Goto, Hiromi, and Jillian Tamaki. Half World. New York: Viking, 2010.
Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where
she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn
to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on
the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half
World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie
has embarked on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save
her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at
stake.
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Gratton, Tessa. The Queens of Innis Lear. First edition. New York, NY:
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2018.
Gaela is a ruthless commander who considers herself the rightful heir of
Innis Lear; she seeks revenge for her mother's murder. Regan is a master
manipulator, who must produce an heir to secure her place on the throne; she
desires magic to further her aims. Elia is a star-blessed priest, determined to
protect their father; even if it means marrying a stranger. Three Queens. One
crown. The island is at risk and an empire is poised for ruin; the line of Lear
will be soaked in blood.
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Gratz, Alan, and Brett Helquist. The Monster War: A League of Seven
Novel. First trade paperback edition. New York, NY: Tom Doherty
Associates, 2017.
Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffet unleashes a
monster army on the American continent, forcing Archie to put aside his
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reservations about his league membership and rally his forces to stop the
threat.
7-12
Griffin, Sarah Maria. Other Words for Smoke. First Edition. New York, NY:
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Fourteen-year-old twins Mae and Rossa's summer away from home takes a
life-altering turn when they discover their great aunt Rita's home is full of
secrets.
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Grossman, Lev. The Magician's Land: A Novel. New York: Viking, 2014.
Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his
childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story
began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic…But all roads lead back
to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to
buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the
key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new
Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring
Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk
sacrificing everything.
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Hand, Elizabeth. Radiant Days: A Novel. New York: Viking, 2012.
Aspiring artist Meredith contemplates suicide, but her mind is changed after
she finds a wall painting that can transport people through time and she
meets an inspiring young artist from a different era.
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Hartman, Rachel. Seraphina: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2012.
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons
can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her,
grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals,
while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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Hartnett, Sonya, and Andrea Offermann. The Midnight Zoo. 1st Candlewick
Press ed. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2011.
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma
flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during
World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals
tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their
lives and what it means to be free.
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Hatke, Ben, Alex Campbell, and Hilary Sycamore. Mighty Jack. First edition.
New York: First Second, 2016.
What starts as a normal little garden out back behind the house quickly
grows up into a wild, magical jungle with tiny onion babies running amok,
huge, pink pumpkins that bite, and, on one moonlit night that changes
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everything ... a dragon.
7-12
Hautman, Pete. The Obsidian Blade. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press,
2012.
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the
strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved,
and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey
trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
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Haydu, Corey Ann. Rules for Stealing Stars. First edition. New York, NY:
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with
their mother's illness.
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Heilig, Heidi. The Girl From Everywhere. First Edition. New York, NY:
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries
aboard her time-traveling father's pirate ship, but when he gambles with her
very existence, it all may come to an end.
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Henry, Emily. The Love That Split the World. [New York]: Razorbill, an
imprint of Penguin Random House, 2016.
They're just momentary glimpses at first: her front door is red instead of its
usual green, there's a pre-school where the garden store should be. But when
her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and
grazing buffalo, Natalie knows something isn't right. She gets a visit from the
kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her: "You
have three months to save him." And when she meets Beau, it's as if time just
stops and nothing exists ... except Natalie and Beau.
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Hernandez, Carlos Alberto. Sal & Gabi Break the Universe. First edition. Los
Angeles: Disney Hyperion, 2019.
In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no
one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence.
Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other
universes.
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Hill, Stuart. Last Battle of the Icemark. New York, N.Y.: Chicken House,
2011.
Queen Thirrin believed the bad-seed sorceress, Medea, was gone for good,
but banishment did not kill her; it made her stronger. Allied with Cronus, her
grandfather, Medea is raising an army of the undead to invade her family's
kingdom. Her father Oskan believes he may need to summon his own black
magic to stop her.
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8-12
Hodge, Rosamund. Cruel Beauty. First edition. New York, NY: Balzer +
Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill
him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and
move to the castle to be his wife.
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Holub, Joan, and Suzanne Williams. Artemis the Loyal. 1st Aladdin
paperback ed. New York: Aladdin, 2011.
It's time for the annual Olympic Games, and the four goddess girls are not
happy! It's boys only--and the girls at MOA are not pleased. Led by Artemis,
Athena, Persphone and Aphrodite, the ladies of Mount Olympus hatch a plan
to get Zeus to open up the games to everyone. Will they succeed--or end up
watching from the sidelines again?
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Inzana, Ryan. Ichiro. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2012.
Raised by a Japanese mother in New York City, his American father killed in
a war, Ichiro finds it difficult to figure out where he fits in. A trip to Japan
leaves the boy with his grandfather, in a country he does not know. And one
night Ichi gets dragged down a hole by a monster. When he awakens he isn't
in Japan nor the mortal world. He has entered into the domain of the gods.
Will Ichiro ever find a place to call home?
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Jacques, Brian, and Sean Rubin. The Sable Quean [sic]. New York: Philomel
Books, 2010.
The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable
Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals
of the Abbey.
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Johnson, Jaleigh. The Mark of the Dragonfly. New York: Delacorte Press,
2014.
Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-
year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but
the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant
lands.
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Jones, Allan Frewin, and Gary Chalk. Trundle's Quest. New York:
Greenwillow Books, 2011.
Trundle Boldoak's simple life as the town lamplighter is turned upside-down
the night he meets Esmeralda, a Roamany hedgehog, who whisks him away
on a quest to find six fabled crowns and fulfill his role in an ancient
prophecy.
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Jones, Diana Wynne. Enchanted Glass. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books,
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After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding
land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young
orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk
and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
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Kagawa, Julie. The Immortal Rules. Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Teen, 2012.
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire
city, until she too becomes an immortal vampire. Forced to flee into the
unknown, outside her city walls, she joins a ragged band of humans who are
seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of
humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten
humans and vampires alike.
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Kirk, Daniel. Elf Realm: The Road's End. New York: Amulet Books, 2011.
Fourteen-year-old Matt, Tuava-Li the elf, and Tomtar the troll continue their
race to the North Pole to try to save their worlds, in competition with Becky
and the villainous Jardaine, but unexpected horrors await whoever journeys
beyond the Gates of Vattar.
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Kittredge, Caitlin. The Iron Thorn. New York: Delacorte Press, 2011.
In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson,
whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the
totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve the
mystery of her brother's disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her
father and the Land of Thorn.
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Kornher-Stace, Nicole. Archivist Wasp: A Novel. First Big Mouth House
edition. Easthampton, Mass.: Big Mouth House, 2015.
A postapocalyptic ghosthunter escapes her dire fate by joining the ghost of a
supersoldier on his quest to the underworld.
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Lanagan, Margo. The Brides of Rollrock Island. 1st American ed. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch
their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the
heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man
may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And
he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those
wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she. He will
be equally ensnared. And the witch will have her true payment.
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Langrish, Katherine. The Shadow Hunt. 1st U.S. ed. New York, NY: Harper,
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2010.
Wolf, on the run from the oppressive monastery where he was raised, rescues
a strange child on Devil's Edge, home of ghosts and demons. He takes her to
a grand castle hoping to win the favor of its ruler and strikes up an unlikely
friendship with a girl named Nest, thinking he's finally found a place to call
home. But dark forces are conspiring against Wolf and Nest, and a sinister
enemy is looming closer than they could ever realize.
3-7
Lasky, Kathryn. Lone Wolf. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010.
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his
deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world
of the wolves of the Beyond.
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Legrand, Claire. Sawkill Girls. First edition. New York, NY: Katherine Tegen
Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Who are the Sawkill Girls?...Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal.
Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and a mouth full
of lies. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where
gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black
cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and
around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen
away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight ... until now.
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Le Guin, Ursula. Gifts. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004.
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of
"unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the
precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which
has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Leno, Katrina. Summer of Salt. First edition. New York, NY: HarperTeen, an
imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Georgina Fernweh waits for the tingle of magic in her fingers-- magic that
has already touched her twin sister, Mary. But with her eighteenth birthday
looming at the end of her last summer on the island, Georgina fears her gift
will never come. She meets and falls in love with Prue Lowry, a visitor to the
island. When a three-hundred-year-old bird, Annabella is found violently
murdered, suddenly the island doesn't seem so magical. Georgina turns to the
Ouija board to discover the dark secrets of Annabella's death.
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Levine, Gail Carson. The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre. First edition. New
York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
When visited by a fairy, fifteen-year-old Peregrine learns she is not Latki-
born, so she begins to free her people from tyranny, even if it means fighting
monsters--both magical and human.
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3-7
Lin, Grace. When the Sea Turned to Silver. First edition. New York: Little,
Brown and Company, 2016.
Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that
Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the
Tiger Emperor.
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Lin, Grace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. New York: Little, Brown
and Co., 2009.
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and
then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the
Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade
River.
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Lloyd, Natalie. Over the Moon. First edition. New York: Scholastic Press,
2019.
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live
the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants.
Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on
her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way... So when Mallie is chosen
for a dangerous competition in which daring (and ideally, orphaned) children
train flying horses, she jumps at the chance. But the situation proves even
more dangerous when Mallie uncovers a sinister mystery at the heart of Coal
Top's struggles -- a mystery some powerful people will do anything to
protect.
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Locke, Katherine. The Girl with the Red Balloon. Chicago, Illinois: Albert
Whitman & Company, 2017.
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East
Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets
members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic
to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's
time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark
magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything-- including her only way
home-- to stop the process.
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Maas, Sarah J. A Court of Mist and Fury. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a
steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart
remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save
Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High
Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics,
passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to
stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured
soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future--and the future of a
world cleaved in two.
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9-12
Maas, Sarah J. Crown of Midnight: A Throne of Glass Novel. New York:
Bloomsbury, 2013.
As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien
must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a
kingdom.
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Maas, Sarah J. Heir of Fire: A Throne of Glass Novel. New York:
Bloomsbury, 2014.
Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about
her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon,
intent on enslaving her world.
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Maas, Sarah J. Throne of Glass. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her
crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena
Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a
competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Mahy, Margaret. The Magician of Hoad. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Margaret K.
McElderry Books, 2010.
A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to
be the court's royal magician.
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Marillier, Juliet. Raven Flight: A Shadowfell Novel. First edition. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
To rescue her homeland from tyranny, Neryn must seek out the powerful
Guardians to complete her training as a Caller.
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Marillier, Juliet. Shadowfell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive
king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets
out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a
mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save
Alban.
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Marr, Melissa. Radiant Shadows. New York: Harper, 2010.
Ani, a half-mortal driven by her hungers, and Devlin, faery assassin and
brother to the High Queen, have reason to fear one another even as they are
drawn together to save all of Faerie.
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Maschari, Jennifer. The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price. First edition.
New York, NY: Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of
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HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
A boy must rescue his sister after she finds - and wants to stay - in an almost-
world beneath her bed, where their mother is still alive.
7-12
Matharu, Taran. The Novice. First edition. New York: Feiwel and Friends, an
imprint of Macmillan, 2015.
When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to
summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy.
There the gifted are trained in the art of summoning. Fletcher finds himself
caught in the middle of powerful forces, with only his demon Ignatius for
help. As the pieces on the board maneuver for supremacy, Fletcher must
decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands.
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Meloy, Colin, and Carson Ellis. Wildwood. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2011.
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel
ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical
forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a
war among the various inhabitants.
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Meriano, Anna, and Mirelle Ortega. A Dash of Trouble. First edition. New
York, NY: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2018.
Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations,
Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters
have been keeping a secret.
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Messer, Stephen. Windblowne. 1st Bluefire ed. New York: Bluefire, 2011.
Oliver seeks his eccentric great-uncle Gilbert's help in creating a kite for the
all-important kite festival, but when Gilbert suddenly disappears, Oliver is
guided by one of Gilbert's kites in a quest through different worlds to find
him.
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Messner, Kate. The Seventh Wish. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
After Charlie finally gets the hang of communicating with a magical wishing
fish, a family crisis with her older sister brings reality into sharp focus, and
Charlie quickly learns that life's toughest challenges cannot be fixed by a
simple wish.
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Meyer, Joanna Ruth. Echo North. Salem, MA: Page Street Publishing Co.,
2018.
When her father disappears, Echo Alkaev believes he is lost forever. Six
months later she finds him half-frozen in the winter forest, guarded by a
talking wolf-- the same creature who attacked her as a child. Echo discovers
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centuries-old secrets, a magical library full of books-turned-mirrors, and a
young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. As the year ticks by,
Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf's enchantment before her time is up-
- otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.
7-12
Meyer, Marissa. Heartless. First edition. New York: Feiwel and Friends,
2016.
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland and a favorite
of the unmarried King, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, she
wants to open a shop and create delectable pastries. Cath is determined to
choose her own destiny. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and
monsters, fate has other plans.
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Miller, Madeline. Circe. First edition. New York, NY: Little, Brown and
Company, 2018.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter
is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor
viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for
companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of
witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods
themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she
hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the
most famous figures in all of mythology... To protect what she loves most,
Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether
she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to
love.
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Mlynowski, Sarah, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins. Upside-Down Magic.
First edition. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015.
With their magic being unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are sent
to the upside-down magic room at Dunwiddle Magic School.
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Moriarty, Jaclyn. A Corner of White. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books,
2013.
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope
with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the
Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his
father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their
worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.
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Moulton, Erin E. Keepers of the Labyrinth. New York, NY: Philomel Books,
2015.
Lil Bennett goes to Crete to find answers about the circumstances of her
mother's death, and there finds herself entangled in an adventure of mythical
proportions that leads her and her friends through the very labyrinth in which
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the real Minotaur was imprisoned.
3-7
Mull, Brandon. Wild Born. Library edition. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.,
2013.
As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders
of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit
beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
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Mull, Brandon. A World Without Heroes. 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. New
York: Aladdin, 2011.
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called
Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world,
and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious
wizard emperor, Surroth.
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Neumeier, Rachel. The Floating Islands. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The
Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other
one of the legendary island flyers.
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Nielsen, Jennifer A, and Gideon Kendall. Elliot and the Goblin War.
Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2010.
When eight-year-old Elliot Penster unwittingly saves a brownie from a group
of goblins on Halloween night, he becomes their reluctant king and champion
in a war against the evil goblins.
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Nielsen, Jennifer A, and Gideon Kendall. Elliot and the Pixie Plot.
Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2011.
Elliot, King of the Brownies, isn't usually a stubborn kid, but he didn't see a lot
of room to bargain on the issue of Goblins eating his subjects. Which is how
he wound up alone in the Underworld, with no map either home or ahead to
Demon Territory. Between trying to steal a hair for the Pixie Princess and a
sock for the Fairies from a demon, being King of the Brownies is no easy job.
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Nytra, David. The Secret of the Stone Frog: A Toon Graphic Novel. New
York: Toon Books, 2012.
Siblings Leah and Alan wake one morning in the middle of an enchanted
forest and encounter a strange and spectacular world filled with foppish lions,
giant rabbits, and a talking stone frog for a guide.
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O'Connor, George. Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess. New York: First Second,
2010.
From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena
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was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many
interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus,
and cursed Arachne.
7-12
Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Warrior. New York: Viking, 2017.
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian girl, was inducted
into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical
powers,…Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her
Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face,
Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the
mysterious town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save
humanity.
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Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Witch. New York: Viking, 2011.
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian
parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has
latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch
a serial killer.
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Oliver, Lauren. Broken Things. First edition. New York: Harper, an imprint
of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
An unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence,
and impossible friendships. It's been five years since Summer Marks was
brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their
best friend…On the anniversary of Summer's death, a seemingly insignificant
discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once
again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and
reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those
years ago--no matter how monstrous.
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Oliver, Lauren, and Kei Acedera. Liesl & Po. New York: Harper, 2011.
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous
consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an
alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend
and foe while making an important journey.
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Oliver, Lauren, and Iacopo Bruno. The Spindlers. New York: Harper, 2012.
Accompanied by an eccentric, human-sized rat, Liza embarks on a perilous
quest through an underground realm to save her brother, Patrick, whose soul
has been stolen by the evilest of creatures--the spider-like spindlers.
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Ostertag, Molly. The Witch Boy. First edition. New York, NY: Graphix, an
imprint of Scholastic, 2017.
In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while
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boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is
exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted ... and he's still fascinated
by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger
threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the
encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming Charlie,
to convince Aster to try practicing his skills. And it will require even more
courage to save his family ... and be truly himself.
4-6
Park, Linda Sue, and Jim Madsen. Forest of Wonders. First edition. New
York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the
forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.
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Pasternack, Sofiya, and Celeste Knudsen. Anya and the Dragon. Boston:
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a
Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her
family's home at risk.
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Paterson, Katherine, et al. The Flint Heart: A Fairy Story. Somerville, Mass.:
Candlewick Press, 2011.
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.
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5-9
Pearson, Ridley. Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play. New York:
Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011.
For the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts, life is
beginning to settle down when an intriguing video arrives to Philby's computer
at school. It's a call for action: the Overtakers, a group of Disney villains, seem
to be plotting to attempt a rescue of two of their leaders, both of whom the
Disney Imagineers have hidden away somewhere following a violent
encounter in Epcot. A staged attack by new Overtakers at Downtown Disney,
startles the group. A dark cloud in the Kingdom Keeper era is unfolding, and
with dissension in their own ranks, it's unclear if there's any chance of escape.
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Pearson, Ridley. Shell Game. New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2012.
The Kingdom Keepers have their hands full when, during the inaugural cruise
of the Disney ship, Fantasy, to exotic locations, they discover that the
Overtakers have infiltrated the cast, stolen a journal that belonged to Walt
Disney himself, and plan to unleash a powerful evil, the Chernabog.
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Porter, Sarah. Vassa In the Night. First edition. New York: Tor Teen, a Tom
Doherty and Associates Book, 2016.
In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, Vassa uses a magical gift from her
dead mother to take on Babs Yaga, the witch who owns the local convenience
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store. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful.
5-8
Prineas, Sarah, and Antonio Javier Caparó. Found. New York: Harper, 2010.
Connwaer, the young thief-turned-wizard's apprentice, escapes from prison
and follows the call of magic to the distant and mysterious Dragon Mountain
on a quest to save Wellmet from Arhionvar, dread magic that can destroy the
city.
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Pullman, Philip. La Belle Sauvage. First Edition. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of
Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance
called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring
enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey
daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
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Riordan, Rick. The Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades. First edition.
New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2013.
Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together
to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the
Underworld in the process.
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Riordan, Rick. The Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena. New York:
Disney Hyperion Books, 2012.
The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the
giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together
to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death.
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Riordan, Rick. The Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune. New York:
Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011.
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from
Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger
task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can
be fulfilled.
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Riordan, Rick. The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid. New York:
Disney/Hyperion, 2010.
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god
Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark
on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family
and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Riordan, Rick. The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire. New York:
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Disney/Hyperion, 2011.
Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from
breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have
any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun
god Ra.
5-9
Riordan, Rick. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of
Thor. First edition. Los Angeles: Disney*Hyperion, 2016.
Magnus and friends help the god of thunder find his missing weapon before
all Muspellheim breaks loose.
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Riordan, Rick. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of
Summer. First edition. Los Angeles: Disney-Hyperion, 2015.
Magnus Chase, a homeless boy living in Boston, finds out he is the son of a
Norse god.
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Riordan, Rick. Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle. First edition. Los
Angeles: Disney-Hyperion, 2016.
How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his
father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and
disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now,
without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to
survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's
favor. But Apollo has many enemies -- gods, monsters, and mortals who
would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs
help, and he can think of only one place to go ... an enclave of modern
demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. Includes Guide to Apollo-Speak.
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Rogerson, Margaret. Sorcery of Thorns. First edition. New York: Margaret
K. McElderry Books, 2019.
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known
anything…With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel
Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a
centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames,
but the world along with them. As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger,
Elisabeth starts to question everything she's been taught--about sorcerers,
about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she
has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
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Rossetti, Rinsai. The Girl with Borrowed Wings. New York: Dial Books,
2012.
Seventeen-year-old Frenenqer lives a controlled and restricted life in the
desert, like everyone else there, but when she meets Sangris, a Free, winged
shape-shifter, everything changes.
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9-12
Rowell, Rainbow. Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow. First U.S.
edition. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his
roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git,
but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work,
and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his
girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running
around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if
he were here. It's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and
Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.
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Rowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original
Screenplay. First edition. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an
imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016.
When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his
stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced
and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone.
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Rowling, J. K, and Mary GrandPré. Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999.
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for
Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in
danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Rowling, J. K, and Mary GrandPré. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007.
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible
task- that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never
has Harry felt so alone or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must
somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been
given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow
and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him.
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Rowling, J. K, and Mary GrandPré. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 1st
American ed. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000.
Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World
Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is
mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills,
friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 1st American ed.
New York: Arthur A. Levine books, 2003.
Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends
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Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is
about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down.
3-8
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Arthur
A. Levine Books, 1999.
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry
Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his
parents' deaths.
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Rowling, J. K, and Mary GrandPré. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
1st American ed. New York: A.A. Levine Books, 1998.
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.
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Russell, Karen. Swamplandia!. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her
family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades.
But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the
family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with
a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother,
Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava sets out on
a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a
lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of
reality.
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Sage, Angie, and Mark Zug. Fyre. First edition. New York, NY: Katherine
Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
Septimus must battle the remnants of the Dark Domaine, which will remain
until the power of the evil Two-Faced Ring is destroyed forever. To
accomplish that, the ancient Alchemie Fyre must be relit -- a task that sends
Septimus to the very origins of Magyk and Physik, testing both his skills, and
his loyalties to ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, and Alchemist
Marcellus Pye.
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Schwab, Victoria. This Savage Song: A Monsters of Verity Novel. First
Edition. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus
Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the
difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between.
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Shirai, Kaiu, Posuka Demizu, and Satsuki Yamashita. The Promised
Neverland. Shonen Jump manga edition. San Francisco, CA: VIZ
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Media, LLC, 2017.
Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House
orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as 'Mom, ' all the
kids have enjoyed a comfortable life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect
environment to learn-- what more could an orphan ask for? One day, though,
Emma and Norman uncover the dark truth of the outside world they are
forbidden from seeing.
6-8
Shulman, Peggy. The Grimm Legacy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010.
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a
page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when
she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects,
she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening
adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
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Stanley, Diane. The Silver Bowl. New York: Harper, 2011.
From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has
seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an
adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.
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Stewart, Trenton Lee, and Diana Sudyka. The Secret Keepers. First edition.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
When twelve-year-old Reuben finds a peculiar, magical watch that has the
power to turn its wearer invisible, he's propelled on the adventure of a
lifetime.
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Sutherland, Tui, and Kari H Sutherland. The Menagerie: Dragon On Trial.
First edition. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Someone or something has murdered the goose who laid the golden eggs,
and the evidence points to a dragon named Scratch. But this mystery won't
be that easy to solve. Zoe and Logan are back on the case in another exciting
fantasy adventure.
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Tamaki, Mariko, and Brooklyn Allen. Lumberjanes: Ghost Cabin. New
York: Amulet Books, 2019.
Shines the spotlight on inseparable couple Mal and Molly who find an extra
cabin at camp, one that's full of ghosts!
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Taylor, Greg. The Girl Who Became a Beatle. New York: Feiwel and
Friends, 2011.
Regina Bloomsbury, a sixteen-year-old, Beatles-obsessed rocker, takes a trip
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to an alternate reality where the Beatles never existed and her band, the
Caverns, are the rock-and-roll superstars.
9-12
Taylor, Laini. Muse of Nightmares. First edition. New York: Little, Brown
and Company, 2018.
Neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a
ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-
minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo
faces an unthinkable choice: save the woman he loves, or everyone else.
Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.
As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, as
forgotten doors are opened, the question arises: Must heroes always slay
monsters, or is it possible to save them instead?
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Taylor, Laini. Strange the Dreamer. First edition. New York: Little, Brown
and Company, 2017.
In this new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of
the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the
shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered
gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares,
love and carnage. Welcome to Weep.
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Thorne, Jack, J. K Rowling, and John Tiffany. Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child. Special rehearsal edition. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books,
2016.
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a
father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs
while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult
to bear.
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Tucholke, April Genevieve. The Boneless Mercies. First edition. New York:
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming
Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings,
decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining
of Beowulf.
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Uehashi, Nahoko, Yuta Onoda, and Cathy Hirano. The Beast Player. First
American hardcover edition. New York: Godwinbooks/Henry Holt
and Company, 2019.
Erin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their
kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is
sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send
her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk
to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard
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her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could cost her life. Can
she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of
war?
3-7
Ursu, Anne, and Erin McGuire. Breadcrumbs. New York: Walden Pond
Press, 2011.
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a
run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted
wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life.
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Valente, Catherynne M., and Ana Juan. The Girl Who Circumnavigated
Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making. New York: Feiwel and
Friends, 2011.
Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when
a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle
Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.
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Weymouth, Laura E. The Light Between Worlds. First edition. New York,
NY: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Five years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a
London bomb shelter... and were transported to another realm called the
Woodlands. In a forest kingdom populated by creatures out of myth and
legend, they found temporary refuge. When they finally returned to London,
nothing had changed -- except themselves. Overcome with longing, Ev is
desperate to return no matter what it takes. Philippa is determined to find a
place in this world and moves to America to escape the memory of what was.
When Evelyn goes missing, Philippa wonders if Ev truly did find a way
home, or if the weight of their worlds pulled her under.
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Weyr, Garret, and Katie Harnett. The Language of Spells. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books, 2018.
Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any
dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer,
and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while
magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie,
a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to
all the other dragons.
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Wilson, G. Willow. Alif the Unseen. New York: Grove Press, 2012.
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker
shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups,
from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first
letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind… When
Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn,
which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information
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technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death,
aided by forces seen and unseen.
3-7
Yep, Laurence, Joanne Ryder, and Mary GrandPré. A Dragon's Guide to the
Care and Feeding of Humans. First edition. New York: Crown
Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie,
not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her
"sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco,
causing mayhem among its residents.
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Yolen, Jane, and Michael Cavallaro. Foiled. New York: First Second, 2010.
Aliera is a star at fencing, but at school no one notices her--until her new lab
partner Avery begins flirting with her. Aliera's mother just bought her a foil
from a garage sale, and it has a strange jewel attached to the hilt. Will
Aliera's first date be ruined when magical creatures try to steal her foil?
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Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement. New York: Razorbill, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when
he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against
his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the
beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
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Yovanoff, Brenna. The Space Between. New York: Razorbill/Penguin Group
(USA), Inc., 2011.
A breathtaking and transcendent novel about a demon girl's search for love
on Earth.
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Allen, Judy. Fantasy Encyclopedia. Boston: Kingfisher, 2005.
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people of folklore and fantasy.
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Don, Lari, and Philip Longson. The Secret of the Kelpie. Edinburgh: Picture
Kelpies, an imprint of Floris Books, 2016.
Flora is playing with her brothers and sisters by the loch when she notices a
stunning white horse. While her siblings clamor for a chance to ride the
beautiful animal, Flora is worried. Where has this strange horse come from?
Why are its hoof prints wet? Too late Flora realizes this is no horse! It's a
kelpie: a shape-shifting water horse from Scottish folklore known to steal
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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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A collection of sixteen short science fiction and fantasy stories by award-
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Hamilton, John. You Write It: Fantasy. Edina, MN: ABDO, 2009.
This title gives children the tools they need to turn their creativity into
readable, cohesive stories. Written by award-winning author and
screenwriter John Hamilton, You Write It! Lays out for kids the format,
organization, and development of a fantasy book. Novice writers of all ages
will find this book a detailed yet easy-to-follow guide for turning thoughts
and ideas into readable written works.
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Kythera, of Anevern. Dragons and Fantasy. Irvine, CA: Walter Foster Pub.;
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development. Included is an emphasis on helping students find their
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Discover the monsters and creatures populating Greek mythology and see
how fearless Greek mortals pitted their wits against the ugliest and most
monstrous forms known to humans.
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The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy. Cambridge,
MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.
Interviews with 13 American and English authors of fantasy fiction
discussing their lives, literary influences, work routines and their beliefs
about the place of fantasy in literature and our lives. Includes a "reader"
listing each author's major fantasy works.
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