FANTASY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alanna, the First Adventure                                                                   Pierce, Tamora

Summary:  Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page and, after learning many hard lessons, proves capable of high adventure.  Many Fantasy Series.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents                                  Pratchett, Terry

Summary:  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 deadly evil rat king.

Aria of the Sea                                                                         Calhoun, Dia

Summary:  In the magical kingdom of Windward, thirteen-year-old Cerinthe arrives at the Royal Dancing School, where she finds herself torn between two careers of dancer and healer.

 Artemis Fowl                                                                                        Colfer, Eoin

Summary:  Twelve-year-old genius Artemis Fowl doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.

            Sequel: The Arctic Incident

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast              McKinley, Robin

Summary:  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.

 Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy                                                        Nimmo, Jenny

Summary:  Charlie and his friends unite to rescue Ollie, a boy who was turned invisible and made to live in the attics at Bloor’s Academy more than a year ago, but they are hindered by a mysterious new student who lives with Charlie’s aunts.

(Others in series.)

Cirque du Freak                                                                                   Shan, Darren

Summary:  Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. (Seven Sequels)

 Dark Lord of Derkholm                                                                        Jones, Diana

Summary:  Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. (Sequel: Year of the Griffin)

 The Dark Portal                                                                                    Jarvis, Robin

Summary:  While on a rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to an evil world populated by rats who peel mice before eating them and worship the Dark Lord. (Sequels)

 Dealing With Dragons                                                               Wrede, Pat

Summary:  Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards.  (3 Sequels)

 Dial-A-Ghost                                                                                       Ibbotson, Eva

Summary:  A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.

Drowned Wednesday                                                                           Nix, Garth

Summary:  Everyone is after Arthur Penhaligon including strange pirates, shadowy creatures, and Drowned Wednesday, whose gluttony threatens both her world and Arthur’s.  (Series)

Ella Enchanted                                                                          Levine, Gail

Summary:  Ella, cursed with a spell of obedience shortly after birth, must obey all commands. 

Eragon                                                                                                 Paolini, Christopher

Summary:  In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. (Sequel: Eldest)

The Eyes of the Dragon: A Story                                                           King, Stephen

Summary:  In the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance. 

 The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings

                                                                                                            Tolkien, J. R. R.

Summary:  Sam and Frodo begin their quest that will take them into Suaron where they can destroy the Ring of Power in Mount Doom.

 Goddess of Yesterday                                                                          Cooney, Caroline B.

Summary:  Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxndra, calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.

 The Golden Compass                                                                           Pullman, Philip

Summary:  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. (Sequels: Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass)

 The Golem’s Eye                                                                                  Stroud, Jonathan

Summary:  In their continuing adventures, magician’s apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old,  and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem’s power before it destroys London.

Goose Chase                                                                                        Kindl, Patrice

Summary:  Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.

 The Hobbit                                                                                           Tolkien, J. R. R.

Summary:  Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.

 The Hunting of the Last Dragon                                                 Jordan, Sherryl

Summary:  In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric’s Cove and the lair of a dragon.

 I Am Mordred: A Tale From Camelot                                       Springer, Nancy

Summary:  When Mordred learns the identity of his father, he struggles with feelings of hatred, but also fights the fate which determines that he kill the good and gracious king. (Also, I Am Morgan LeFay)

 In a Dark Wood                                                                                   Cadnum, Michael

Summary:  On orders from the King, the Sheriff of Nottingham seeks to capture the outlaw Robin Hood, but he finds him to be a tricky and elusive foe.

Inkheart                                                                                                Funke, Cornelia Caroline

Summary:  Twelve-year-old Maggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

 Just Ella                                                                                                Haddix, Margaret

Summary:  At first the idea of marrying Prince Charming looks pretty good but after the engagement she finds he’s not so charming anymore.

 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe                                                Lewis, C. S.

Summary:  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.

 Lost Years of Merlin     (Series)                                                            Baron, T. A.

Summary:  A young boy who has no identity or memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

Midnight                                                                                               Hunter, Erin

Summary:  Called by StarClan to fulfill a new prophecy, a group of young cats sets out on a long and dangerous journey, knowing only that trouble threatens the forest, as the adventures of the warrior clans continue.

Midnight’s Choice                                                                                Thompson, Kate

Summary:  Tess, who has the ability to change into animal form, must choose between good and evil as she tries to decide whether to “Switch” into a phoenix or a vampire for the rest of time.

 Once Upon a Marigold                                                             Ferris, Jean

Summary:  A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.

 Peter and the Starcatchers                                                                    Barry, Dave

Summary:  Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

The Princess Bride                                                                                Goldman, William

Summary:  The story of a beautiful young princess who marries a handsome, but less than perfect, prince.

 Sabriel                                                                                                  Nix, Garth

Summary:  Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.

(Sequel: Lirael, Abhorsen)

 The Sea of Trolls                                                                                  Farmer, Nancy

Summary:  After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

 The Seeing Stone                                                                                  Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Summary:  In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

 Sirena                                                                                                   Napoli, Donna Jo

Summary:  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. (Many other fairy tale retellings by this Author.)

 Switchers                                                                                             Thompson, Kate

Summary:  When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms. (Two Sequels)

Sword of the Rightful King                                                                    Yolen, Jane

Summary:  Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England – pulling a sword from a stone – but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.

The Tale of Despereaux                                                                        DiCamillo, Kate

Summary:  The adventures of Despereaux 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.

Triss                                                                                                     Jacques, Brian

Summary:  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. (Many Others in Redwall Series)

The Two Princesses of Bamarre                                                            Levine, Gail

Summary:  With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the Grey death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure.

 Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits                                                           McKinley, Robin

Summary:  Presents six fantasy stories about mermaids, sea serpents, and other fabulous creatures associated with the element of water.

 Watership Down                                                                                  Adams, Richard

Summary:  Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

 Wolf Tower                                                                                          Lee, Tanith

Summary:  When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

 Revised 11/06