Fantasy Books
Type of fantasy:
- Babe, the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith (FIC/KIN)
- Walter: the Story of a Rat by Barbara Wesbra, drawings by Donna Diamond (FIC/WESBRA) Walter, namesake of Sir Walter Scott and a rat that can read, lives in the home of Miss Amanda Pomeroy, a celebrated writer of children's books.
- Poppleton series by Cynthia Rylant (ER/RYL)
- Magyk, Flyte, Physik: the three books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage (FIC/SAGE) As apprentice to the Extraordinary Wizard, Septimus, the seventh son of a seventh son, experiences many exciting adventures involving ghosts, wizards, dragons, time travel, and magic.
- Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure by Georgia Byng (FIC/BYNG) Molly Moon, is hypnotized and eventually transport back to nineteenth century India, where she meets a maharajah with a speech defect as well as former versions of herself.
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (FIC/ROW)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (FIC/DIT)
Fantasy Books with Time Travel
- Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo (FIC/NIM) While at Bloor's Academy, Charlie Bone gets a surprise when Henry Yewbeam arrives from the year 1916 and needs Charlie's help to stay alive.
Fantasy Books with Dragons and Monsters
- Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke; translated by Anthea Bell. (FIC/FUN) After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
Fantastic situations and characters.
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (FIC/BAB) Would you choose to live forever?
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. 13 books from The Bad Beginning to The End (FIC/SNI)
- Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (FIC/ROW)
- The Lightning Thief, The Titan's Curse, and The Sea of Monsters by Ron Riordan (FIC/RIORDAN) This trio logy (Percy and the Olympians) feature the adventures of Percy and his friends in the real world of Greek gods and goddesses.
- Books by Lloyd Alexander such as The Arkadians (FIC/ALE)
- Fairest by Gail Levine (FIC/LEV) In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean (FIC/GAI) Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (FIC/LOW) Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.