Fantasy for Grades 3–5
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| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Anderson | Granted Ophelia, a fairy, gets her first work assignment and discovers granting a human's wish is anything but easy. (325 pp.) | J Anderson |
| Baptiste | The Jumbies Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home. (234 pp.) | J Baptiste |
| Burne | Takeshita Demons Miku must save her baby brother from powerful demons. (136 pp.) | J Burne |
| Collins | Gregor the Overlander Gregor and his little sister go on a quest into a strange underground world, triggering an epic battle. (311 pp.) | J Collins |
| Cowell | How to Train Your Dragon A young Viking must catch and train a dragon in order to be initiated into his clan. (214 pp.) | J Cowell |
| DasGupta | The Serpent's Secret Swept into another dimension full of magic, winged horses, and demons, Kiran must save her parents—and the world. (338 pp.) | J DasGupta |
| DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Despereaux, a mouse, will do anything for the princess he loves. (267 pp.) | J DiCamillo |
| Elliott | Dragons in a Bag Jax joins Ma, a curmudgeonly witch who lives in his apartment building, on a quest to deliver three baby dragons to a magical world. (154 pp.) | J Elliott |
| Funke | Igraine the Brave Igraine wants to be a knight, not a magician like her parents. (212 pp.) | J Funke |
| Hanson | How to Save Your Tail If You Are a Rat Nabbed by Cats Who Really Like Stories About Magic Spoons, Wolves with Snout-warts, Big Hairy Chimney Trolls--and Cookies Too Bob the rat spins funny fractured fairy tales about his ancestors. (93 pp.) | J Hanson |
| Iserles | The Taken After their den is destroyed, two young foxes take refuge in a human city while mastering foxcraft, the ancient magical arts of their kind. (252 pp.) | J Iserles |
| Kessler | The Tail of Emily Windsnap After starting swimming lessons, Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself. (208 pp.) | J Kessler |
| Levine | Ella Enchanted Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. (232 pp.) | J Levine |
| Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Minli joins a flightless dragon on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon, in hopes of saving her poor village. (278 pp.) | J Lin |
| Meriano | A Dash of Trouble Leonora sneaks into her family's bakery and discovers the women of her family have been keeping a magical secret. (310 pp.) | J Meriano |
| Phelan | Knights vs. Dinosaurs The Knights of the Round Table are bored, so Merlin sends them to face the most terrible lizards of all: dinosaurs. (148 pp.) | J Phelan |
| Rhodes | Bayou Magic Visiting her grandmother in Louisiana, Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only child to carry on her family's magical legacy. (239 pp.) | J Rhodes |
| Riazi | The Gauntlet Farah and her friends must outwit a sinister game master to rescue her little brother. (298 pp.) | J Riazi |
| Rodda | Rowan of Rin The only one able to read the map, timid Rowan joins a dangerous mission to try to restore his town's water supply. (151 pp.) | J Rodda |
| Schlitz | Princess Cora and the Crocodile Unhappy queen-in-training Cora receives a naughty pet crocodile from her fairy godmother, who disrupts her mundane daily routine. (72 pp.) | J Schlitz |
| Sutherland | The Menagerie When Logan finds a baby griffin hiding under his bed, he's thrown into a mystery involving his classmate Zoe and a magical menagerie. (272 pp.) | J Sutherland |
| Vande Velde | Wizard at Work: A Novel in Stories A young wizard looks forward to a quiet summer but is drawn into adventures with princesses, unicorns, and ghosts instead. (134 pp.) | J Vande Velde |
| Vernon | Harriet the Invincible After two years of slaying ogres, cliff-diving, and more, Princess Harriet must seek a prince to set things right at home. (242 pp.) | J Vernon |
| Weyr | The Language of Spells Grisha, the last dragon, and Maggie, a poet's daughter, set out to discover what has happened to all the other dragons. (299 pp.) | J Weyr |
| Yep | The Magic Paintbrush A magic paintbrush transports Steve to a world of adventures. (89 pp.) | J Yep |
Last Updated: 2/19
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