Fantasy

Yorsh, a young elf orphan, discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy connecting the last dragon and the last elf.
361 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Dragons, Warriors

A brave warrior Beowulf must defeat the monster Grendel in this epic battle based on the Scandinavian tale.
96 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dragons

Firedrake, a young dragon, must journey to a place above the clouds called the Rim of Heaven --- which may not even exist. As he embarks on his journey, he meets Ben, a runaway boy. Together, the boy & dragon make their way toward the Rim of Heaven, all the while running a step ahead of Nettlebrand, a monster who will stop at nothing to hunt down Firedrake.
528 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Dragons

Jack and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivan the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a quest to Jotenheim, the home of the Trolls.
480 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Dragons, Trolls

Book 1 of the Enchanted Forest series. Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart, and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon, and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Dragons, Princesses

15-year-old J.J. disappears into the fairy world to plug a time leak caused 150 years ago when his great-grandfather disappeared.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ireland, Fairies, Parallel Universe

Book 5 of the Artemis Fowl series.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
280 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th century, Fairies, Witches

Book 4 of the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She's left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put her there, including Artemis.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Fairies, Spies

Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches

Nell is a wild child: friend of fairies and piskies...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
263 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Fairies, Mean girls, Witches

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Book 3 of the Artemis Fowl series. Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete.
320 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
500 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Baseball, Fairies

Book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series. In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

The infant princess Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) is cursed an evil fairy, Pernicia, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she had been given.
256 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Fairies

In this retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Prince Sigismund dreams of an enchanted castle that has been alseep for almost 200 years, and learns that he is destined to awaken the sleeping princess.
309 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Witches

A mysterious stranger who can spin straw into gold promises to make Charlotte's money problems disappear, but what does he want in return?
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, 18th Century, Ghosts

When a polar bear promises that her family will become rich if the Lass accompanies him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent staff of servants. The bear is really a prince who's been enchanted by a troll queen.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Trolls, Fairy Tales

A retelling of the Snow White story.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Fairy Tales, Love, Singing

Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with him--in exchange for health and prosperity for her family--she agrees. The bear takes Rose to an enchanted castle, where each night she is confronted with a mystery. A retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Witches

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.
272 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, 14th-15th Century, Witches

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures inprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Fairy Tales

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a a deadly evil rat king.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
Cats, Fairy Tales, Talking Animals

The infant princess Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) is cursed an evil fairy, Pernicia, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Princesses

In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

A retelling of "Beauty and the Beast".
320 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the nobleman who pursues her, and delves into the psychological motivations of each of the characters.
227 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Mothers, Witches

After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Mothers, Witches

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love, releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love

Miranda, a small delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor and is taken in by the dour widow Wysteria, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and seeks to escape.
150 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ghosts, Flying People

Book 2 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and her flock fly south on a quest to find their parents, after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they've finally escaped the claws of evil Erasers, they're discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face an even worse nightmare: going to school.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters

Book 1 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and the rest of her "family", all 98% human and 2% bird as a result of a genetic experiment, must rescue the youngest member, Angel, who has been abducted by a group of mutant wolf-men.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

Teenage girl by day, and owl by night, Owl Tycho's life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.
208 pages Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Owls, Flying People

Sequel to The Conch Bearer. Anand journeys back to ancient India where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil djinns.
336 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Genies (or Djinn)

Book 1 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, but when a hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates him, Nathaniel decides to show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all: summoning the all-powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things!
464 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Genies (or Djinn), Magic

Sequel to Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos.
400 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

Theodosia must reverse the black magic that only she can see in the ancient artifacts her archaeologist parents bring back from Egypt.
344 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Museum Mysteries, Magic

Sequel to The Conch Bearer. Anand journeys back to ancient India where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil djinns.
336 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic, Genies (or Djinn)

Book 1 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, but when a hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates him, Nathaniel decides to show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all: summoning the all-powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things!
464 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Genies (or Djinn), Magic

In India, twelve-year-old Anand discovers his destiny as the bearer of a magical and powerful conch shell, and must journey to return it to its rightful home high in the Himalayan mountains while enemies try to steal it from him.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  India, Magic

Odge Gribble, a young hag, joins a wizard, a fey, and an ogre on a quest from their magical kingdom to London through a tunnel which opens every nine years for nine days, to rescue the young prince who had been stolen as an infant nine years before.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

When Jane finds a magic charm that grants exactly half of any wish, her brother Mark and her sisters Katharine and Martha take turns making double wishes, leading to results that are twice as unpredictable and hilarious.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Magic

When the sea called to Sapphy's father, he vanished from her life. When the sea called to her brother, he started disappearing for hours on end. And now the sea is calling to Sapphy, and she feels its pull more strongly than she's ever felt anything in her life. 336 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 3 of the Emily Windsnap series. The magic ring that Emily - half mermaid, half ordinary girl - finds buried in the sand belongs to Neptune, and he wants it back. But the ring, once on, won't come off, and Neptune puts a terrible curse on Emily.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Perhaps the memory of the boy and his haunting words are drawing her back to the place they met. Perhaps it's time for her to face her destiny.
288 pages , Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies, Love

Book 1 in the Thora series. Thora's a half-mermaid. And as mermaid law commands, Thora must spend ten years at sea and ten years on land. In a houseboat called the Loki, Thora sails the seas with her mermaid mother, Halla. But following her tenth birthday, Thora heads to the seaside town of Grimli, where her father grew up.
256 pages , Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

Book 2 of the Emily Windsnap series. Picture an island paradise, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap - half mermaid, half human - her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the Kraken from its hundred-year sleep.
224 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Book 1 of the Emily Windsnap series. The first time twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap goes swimming, she makes a startling discovery - she's a mermaid!
209 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
105 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Best Friends, Love, Mermaids & Selkies

On a mysterious island, three eccentric women care for an assortment of astonishing creatures--not just seals, fish, and gulls, but mermaids, selkies, a couple of ghosts, a very long talking worm, and a boobrie that lays eggs so large, just one will make seventy-two omelets.
281 pages, Grades 3-7
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies

Orphaned Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea.
162 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Mermaids & Selkies, Orphans

The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
210 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Love, Mermaids & Selkies, Mythology

Book 3 of the Percy Jackson series.
320 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 2 of the Chronus Chronicles. Sequel to The Shadow Thieves.
448 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 1 of the Chronus Chronicles. Thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her cousin Zee must set out to save humankind from denizens of the Underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
424 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Mythology, Zombies, Evil Scientists

Book 2 of the Percy Jackson series. After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology

Book 1 of the Percy Jackson series. Twelve-year-old Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, whose mother is mortal and whose father is Poseidon the God of the Sea, lives in the 21st century where the Greek gods are still very much around.
384 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Mythology, Monsters

High school senior, Laura Sweeney has never had a date. She needs a proven "get the guy" strategy. Luckily she knows exactly the expert to call. He's a matchmaking mastermind who actually has the bow and arrow to prove it. Let's just call him...Cupid.
288 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

Hermes, Prince of Thieves and son of Zeus, relates why the seasons change, the history of the Trojan War, his friendship with Pegasus, and many more adventures.
229 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

The adventures of Odysseus, including his encounters with the evil Cyclops, the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, the beautiful sorceress Circe, and the vengeful god of the sea, Poseidon.
128 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Phaeton is the natural offspring of Apollo, god of the Sun, but no one in his village believes him. So he undertakes a long journey to find and confront his father and prove his worth.
128 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.
192 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Atalanta, Andromeda, and Psyche, three female characters in Greek mythology, tell the stories of their marriages.
200 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Fourteen-year-old Princess Xenodice tries to prevent the death of her half-brother, the Minotaur, at the hands of the Athenian prince, Theseus, who is aided by Icarus, Daedalus, and her sister Ariadne.
194 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Anaxandra lives in the castle with King Menelaus and his wife Helen, until Trojan prince Paris comes and has an affair with Helen that starts the Trojan War.
264 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
352 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Love, Mythology, Sisters

Presents the story of Odysseus's epic journey through the eyes of his faithful wife Penelope, the sorceress Circe, the goddess Athena, and his old nanny Eurycleia.
160 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

Part of the Time Warp Trio series. As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave like the characters in the trio's class play.
80 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Funny, Mythology, Time Travel

The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
210 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Love, Mermaids & Selkies, Mythology

The events surrounding the famous battle between the Greeks and the Trojans are told from the points of view of two women, the beautiful Helen and the prophetic Cassandra.
208 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.
119 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
224 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  High School, Funny, Love, Mythology

Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
151 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Ancient Greece, Mythology

A retelling of the Snow White story.
336 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Fairy Tales, Love, Singing

While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
250 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Love, Singing

Part of the Royal Diaries series. Fourteen-year-old Sophia is engaged to the nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. She must travel to Russia where she is renamed Catherine and married, but she watches helplessly as her family is torn from her, her own mother is involved in a spying ring against the empress, and all that is familiar to her disappears.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  18th Century, Princesses, Russia

Three stories in one volume: Cinderellis and the Glass Slipper, For Biddle's Sake, and The Fairy's Return.
256 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and claim the crown that is rightfully hers.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Princesses, Mean Girls

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Princesses, Talking Animals

A young man leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father the king.
288 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Funny, Love, Princesses

Part of the Royal Diaries series. Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life.
186 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  India, Princesses

Three stories in one volume: The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, and Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep.
240 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Part of the Royal Diaries series. In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
300 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  China, Princesses

With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the Gray Death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Princesses, Sisters

The infant princess Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) is cursed an evil fairy, Pernicia, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.
400 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Princesses

Part of the Royal Diaries series. A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
227 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Princesses, Russia, World War I

Part of the Royal Diaries series. While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Ancient Egypt, Princesses

In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Princesses

Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day, only because he wants to hear more stories. But after one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. Thirteen-year-old Marjan must undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, and learn new stories for Shahrazade.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Middle East, Princesses

Book 1 of the Warriors: Power of Three series.
384 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Eyes-of-a-Hawk has lost the special feather that his father gave him as a reward for his bravery, so he calls on his animal friends to help him find it.
28 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 5 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 4 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The Clans have finally arrived in their new home, following the prophecies of their warrior ancestors. The future seems uncertain, and more than one cat is harboring sinister plans that could lead to violence and darkness. As all the warriors wait for a sign, some of them begin to realize that the threats they face in the forest may not be as perilous as the threats they face from within.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 3 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Something terrifying is happening in the world of the Clans. Amid the destruction of the forest, cats are disappearing, including ThunderClan's beloved medicine cat apprentice, Leafpaw. Now the young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: The Clans must move to a new home, or risk extermination.
352 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Oliver is miserable in his new home in the sticks, until he finds a magical amulet that allows him to talk to animals and transform into animals.
284 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Talking Animals

Book 2 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans. But on their way home, they meet a tribe of wild cats who have their own warrior ancestors . . . and their own mysterious prophecy to fulfill.
320 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 1 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The wild cat Clans have lived in peace and harmony for many moons -- but now, strange messages from their warrior ancestors speak of terrifying new prophecies and a mysterious danger.
336 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Cats, Talking Animals

Book 18 of the Redwall series. The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity until the day their savior will arrive—the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return to glory.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 17 of the Redwall series. Rakkety Tam, the roguish Highlander squirrel, sets off for Mossflower Wood and must defend Redwall Abbey against Gulo the Savage: a vicious beast-eating wolverine who descends upon the Abbey in search of a relic called the Walking Stone.
384 pages , Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
272 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Princesses, Talking Animals

Book 16 of the Redwall series. Martha Braebuck, a young hare-maid, wheelchair bound since infancy, wonders about an old poem relating to the ancient abbey of Loamhedge--and whether it may hold the key to her cure.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 15 of the Redwall series. Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurdah, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 14 of the Redwall series. A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a a deadly evil rat king.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Cats, Fairy Tales, Talking Animals

Book 13 of the Redwall series. The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 12 of the Redwall series. When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 11 of the Redwall series. When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 10 of the Redwall series. Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde.
336 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 9 of the Redwall series. Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Driven by his sense of "dharma," or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings, demons, and the love of his life.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Magic, Talking Animals, India

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
399 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Evil Scientists, Parallel Universe, Talking Animals

Book 8 of the Redwall series. The destinies of the badger lord Sunflash, and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 7 of the Redwall series. Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru.
416 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 6 of the Redwall series. Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.
384 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 5 of the Redwall series. Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 4 of the Redwall series. The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
400 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Having been turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog family.
160 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Funny, Talking Animals

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, and Rasco and the Rats of NIHM. When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by the superintelligent rats of NIMH.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Book 3 of the Redwall series. Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.
448 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 2 of the Redwall series. Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power.
432 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Book 1 of the Redwall series. When the peaceful life of Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
352 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM. Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
128 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Talking Animals

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
240 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Mutants, Talking Animals

Book 3 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
256 pages Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Horses, Talking Animals

Book 6 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
272 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Giants, Talking Animals, Witches

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
192 pages, Grades 3-4
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Witches

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
272 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Best Friends

When a polar bear promises that her family will become rich if the Lass accompanies him to his castle, she doesn't hesitate. But the bear is not what he seems, nor is his castle, which is made of ice and inhabited by a silent staff of servants. The bear is really a prince who's been enchanted by a troll queen.
336 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Trolls, Fairy Tales

River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies. The stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But when Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, and she's the only one who can help.
368 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Boy Bullies, Trolls

Jack and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivan the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a quest to Jotenheim, the home of the Trolls.
480 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Dragons, Trolls

In this retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Prince Sigismund dreams of an enchanted castle that has been alseep for almost 200 years, and learns that he is destined to awaken the sleeping princess.
309 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Witches

A retelling of the Shakespeare play Macbeth, told from the perspective of a teenaged girl living in Macbeth's castle when the King is murdered.
281 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Murder Mysteries, Witches, 9th-13th Century

In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
280 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th century, Fairies, Witches

Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachussetts in 1692, and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
211 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Sisters, Witches

Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. Her family hopes she will be "the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow", but Hunky is shocked to discover that she might want to be a fairy godmother instead.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Fairies, Fairy Tales, Funny, Witches

Nell is a wild child: friend of fairies and piskies...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light.
263 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Fairies, Mean girls, Witches

Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away with him--in exchange for health and prosperity for her family--she agrees. The bear takes Rose to an enchanted castle, where each night she is confronted with a mystery. A retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon."
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Witches

Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

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.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Witches, Parallel Universe, Zombies

Sequel to Witch Child. Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a 17th century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
352 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
261 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him.
249 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the nobleman who pursues her, and delves into the psychological motivations of each of the characters.
227 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Love, Mothers, Witches

After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairy Tales, Mothers, Witches

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Funny, Witches

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
256 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  17th Century, Witches

Book 6 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
272 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Giants, Talking Animals, Witches

Book 2 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
208 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Talking Animals, Witches