Fantastic Fantasy

Bibliography created by the Schaumburg Township District Library

FICTION AIKEN, J.	*The Witch of Clatteringshaws* by Joan Aiken. Dido travels to Scotland and, aided by Woodlouse and by Father Sam’s cousin Malise, the Witch of Clatteringshaws, seeks another heir to the throne.
FICTION ALTER, S.	*The Phantom Isles* by Stephen Alter. Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years.
FICTION AVI	*The Book Without Words: a Fable of Medieval Magic* by Avi. The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality.
FICTION BATH, K.	*The Secret of Castle Cant: Being an Account of the Remarkable Adventures of Lucy Wickwright, Maidservant and Spy* by K.P. Bath. When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron’s daughter, the Adorable & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues.
FICTION BB	*The Little Grey Men: a Story for the Young in Heart* by “BB”. In Warwickshire, England, three gnomes set out on a dangerous journey to find their long-lost brother, who left years ago seeking the source of the Folly brook, on whose shores they make their home.
FICTION BELL, H.	*The Wizard Test* by Hilari Bell. Fourteen-year-old Dayven is devastated when he learns he has wizard powers, until he undergoes wizard training and discovers a new way of looking at the world.
FICTION BERNSTEIN, N.	*Magic* by the Book by Nina Bernstein. After returning from a trip to the library, eleven-year-old Anne and her younger brother and sister discover a magic book which sends them on adventures in which they meet Robin, Hood, giant bugs, and a dark, sinister man with a wolfish face.
FICTION BESSON, L.	*Arthur and the Minimoys* by Luc Besson. In search of a stolen treasure and his missing grandfather, ten-year-old Arthur travels to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of tiny people whom he must save from destruction.
FICTION BODE, N.	*The Anybodies* by N.E. Bode. After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds “a place that feels like home.”
FICTION COBURN, A.	*Glint* by Ann Coburn. While fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year-old brother, Danny, in alternating chapters Danny dreams of a parallel quest in a fantasy world of dragons and shapeshifters that he and Ellie knew as children.
FICTION CODELL, E.	*Diary of a Fairy Godmother* by Esme Raji Codell. Hunky Dory’s interest in wishcraft over witchcraft gets her kicked out of charm school. Now she’s determined to follow her heart and become a fairy godmother.
FICTION COLLINS, S.	*Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane* by Suzanne Collins. In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders that populate the underworld.
FICTION COVILLE, B.	*The Monster’s Ring* by Bruce Coville. A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
FICTION DITERLIZZI, T.	*The Wrath of Mulgarath* by Tony DiTerlizzi. Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, have entered another world—without leaving this one!
FICTION DOWNER, A.	*The Dragon of Never-Was* by Ann Downer. With the help of a bottle of blue fire and a magical brooch, Theodora searches for a dragon on an island off the coast of Scotland before it causes any harm.
FICTION GRIFFIN, A.	*Witch Twins and the Ghost of Glenn Bly* by Adele Griffin. When the witch twins, Claire and Luna, accompany their grandparents to Scotland, they enlist the aid of an army of ghosts to help save the castle of their grandmother’s old friend.
FICTION HELGERSON, J.	*Horns and Wrinkles* by Joseph Helgerson. Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River near Blue Wing, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a helpful fairy, and a group of trolls searching for their fathers.
FICTION IBBOTSON, E.	*The Haunting of Granite Falls* by Eva Ibbotson. When twelve-year-old Alex’s Scottish castle of Carra is sold, dismantled, and moved to Texas, the ghosts that raised him from a child have difficulty relocating.
FICTION KEEHN, S.	*Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen* by Sally M. Keehn. In Mary’s Cove, Tennessee, in 1869, twelve-year-old Gnat Stokes decides to prove she’s not just a trouble maker by rescuing a boy who was spirited away seven years earlier by the evil Swamp Queen of Foggy Bottom.
FICTION LASKY, K.	*The Shattering* by Kathryn Lasky. Soren’s sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga’Hoole in terrible danger.
FICTION LEVINE, G.	*Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg* by Gail Carson Levine. Prilla, the unusual new fairy in Neverland, finds her mettle, Mother Dove’s wisdom, and Tinker Bells’ courage tested by many trials, including a hurricane, a selfish fairy, and Captain Hook.
FICTION MARTIN, G.	*The Ice Dragon* by George R. Martin. Leaving in its wake desolate cold and frozen land, the legendary ice dragon has never been tamed until it meets Adara, a winter child who looks to the creature to help save her world from destruction.
FICTION MCALLISTER, M.	*Urchin and the Heartstone* by M.I. McAllister. Urchin and the other inhabitants of Mistmantle look forward to a time of peace with the coronation of Crispin the squirrel, but the arrival of a storm-ravaged ship with a delegation from the island of Whitewings not only delays the ceremony but sends Urchin on a perilous journey that changes his life forever.
FICTION MCCUTCHEN, H.	*Lightland* by Heather McCutchen. Twelve-year-old Lottie and her best friend Lewis, who speaks only to her, find themselves in a world called Lightland, where they confront the dreaded NightKing, a dangerous being who experiments with the energies of memory.
FICTION MCNAMEE, E.	*The Navigator* by Eoin McNamee. Owen has always been different, and not only because his father committed suicide, but he is not prepared for the knowledge that he has a mission to help the Wakeful—the custodians of time—to stop the Harsh from reversing the flow of time.
FICTION MOLLOY, M.	*The House on Falling Star Hill* by Michael Molloy. While spending the summer with his grandparents in an unusually quiet village in western England, Tim and his dog Josh find themselves involved in dangerous adventures when they are inadvertently transported to the strange and magical world of Tallis.
FICTION OGDEN, C.	*Under Town* by Charles Ogden. Sinister twins Edgar and Ellen descend into Nod’s Limbs vast sewer system to uncover the mystery of a rival mischief-maker.
FICTION PAVER, M.	*Wolf Brother* by Michelle Paver. 6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father.
FICTION PRIMAVERA, E.	The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls by Elise Primavera. In order to save the town of Sherbet, four girls with very little in common become involved with some people and events that seem to bear a resemblance to “The Wizard of Oz.”
FICTION RODDA, E.	*The Flower Fairies* by Emily Rodda. Jessie returns to the magical world where her grandmother was born, where she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.
FICTION SMITH, S.	*Trouble Under Oz* by Sherwood Smith. When a family emergency takes Dori and Em’s mother out of town at the same time that Glinda summons them to Oz, the sisters decide that only Dori should go to Oz while Em stays home to conceal her absence.
FICTION SNYDER, Z.	*The Unseen* by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
FICTION STEWART P.	*Dragon’s Hoard* by Paul Stewart. When Sir Knight saves a damsel in distress, she is forced to return the favor.
FICTION THOMPSON, K.	The New Policeman by Kate Thompson. Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.
FICTION ULLMAN, B.	*The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood* by Barb Bentler Ullman. After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.
FICTION WILKINSON, C.	*Dragon Keeper* by Carole Wilkinson. An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon’s legacy.
FICTION YEP, L.	*The Tiger's Apprentice* by Laurence Yep. A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese-American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
FICTION YOLEN, J.	*The Bagpiper’s Ghost* by Jane Yolen. While in Scotland visiting relatives, thirteen-year-old twins hunting for ghosts in an old cemetery find big trouble when Peter is possessed by the spirit of a man who is determined to keep his twin sister from the man she loves.