FANTASY BOOKLIST

FIC ALE
Alexander, Lloyd. The Arkadians. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1995. To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures.

FIC ATW
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In the Forests of the Night. New York :  Delacorte Press, c1999. Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

FIC BAB
Babbitt, Lucy Cullyford. Children of the Maker. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988. Magramid, half divine ruler of a colony, attempts to destroy Melde, the beloved colony of her sister, Jentessa.

FIC BAR
Barron, T. A. The Ancient One. 1st TOR ed. New York : TOR, 1994, c1992. While helping her Great Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest.

FIC BED
Bedard, Michael, 1949-. Painted Devil. 1st ed. New York :  Atheneum : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994. A visit from strange Aunt Emily invokes in Alice a foreboding sense of evil, as they find connections between the local library's collection of old puppets and a sinister magic show that took place twenty-eight years earlier.

FIC BEL
Bell, Clare. Ratha's Challenge. 1st ed. New York : M.K. McElderry Books : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994. An encounter with a group of unusual cats helps bring Ratha, leader of the prehistoric cat clan called the Named, and her estranged daughter Thistle to a better understanding of each other.

FIC BIL
Billingsley, Franny, 1954-. The Folk Keeper. 1st ed. New York :  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Orphan 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.

FIC BIL
Billingsley, Franny, 1954-. Well Wished. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997. In a time of dire need, eleven-year-old Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village.

FIC BRO
Brooks, Terry. The Druid of Shannara. 1st ed. New York :  Ballantine Books, 1991. In the three hundred years since the death of the Druid Allanon, the mysterious, evil Shadowen have seized control and are ruining the Four Lands.

FIC CHE
Chetwin, Grace. Gom on Windy Mountain. 1st ed. New York :  Lothrop, 1986. After his mother leaves home and his siblings go to stay with townsfolk, Gom, the son of a poor woodcutter, grows up with his father and discovers he has unusual abilities which bring him trouble, yet lead him to envision a different sort of life for himself.

FIC COO
Cooper, Susan. The Dark is Rising. New York : Atheneum, c1973.  On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.

FIC COV
Coville, Bruce. Into the Land of the Unicorns. New York :  Scholastic, c1994. Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.

FIC DAH 
Dahl, Roald. James and the Giant Peach.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 1988.  Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearsome aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.

FIC HOD
Hodges, Margaret, 1911-. Gulliver in Lilliput. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1995. On a voyage in the South Seas, an Englishman finds himself shipwrecked in Lilliput, a land of people only six inches high.

FIC JAC
Jacques, Brian. The Bellmaker. 1st American ed. New York :  Philomel Books, 1995, c1994. The dream -- The pearl queen -- Southsward. 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.

FIC JON
Jones, Diana Wynne. Cart and Cwidder. A Greenwillow Book. New York : Harper Trophy, 1995. When their father, a traveling  minstrel, is killed, three children involved in rebellion and intrigue inherit a lute-like cwidder with more than musical powers.

FIC JUS
Juster, Norton, 1929-. The Phantom Tollbooth. 1st Bullseye Books ed. New York : Bullseye Books, 1988, c1989. Milo finds a cure for his boredom and discovers the importance of words and numbers on a journey through a fantastical land.

FIC KEN
Kendall, Carol, 1917-. The Gammage Cup : a Novel of the Minnipins. 1st Harcourt young classics ed. San Diego :  Harcourt Inc., 2000, c1959. A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain where they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack.

FIC LAW
Lawrence, Michael. The Poppykettle Papers. London : Pavilion, 1999. Aloof and his sister Arnica, two of five Hairy Peruvians who set sail in an earthenware pot called a Poppykettle, tell of their quest to find land, a feather, and an egg.

FIC LEG 
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. A Wizard of Earthsea. New York :  Bantam, [1984], c1968. A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the master wizard.

FIC LEN
L'Engle, Madeleine. An Acceptable Time. 1st ed. New York :  Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.

FIC LEV
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. New York, NY :  HarperCollinsPublishers, c1997. 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.

FIC LIS
Lisle, Janet Taylor. Forest. New York : Scholastic, c1993.  Twelve-year-old Amber's invasion of an organized forest community of squirrels starts a war between humans and beasts, despite the protests of an unconventional and imaginative squirrel named Woodbine.

FIC LIS
Lisle, Janet Taylor. The Lampfish of Twill. New York : Orchard Books, c1991. An old fisherman leads Eric down a whirlpool to an ancient and beautiful world in the core of the Earth.

FIC MAT
Matas, Carol, 1949-. Of Two Minds. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. Follows the adventures of two royal teenagers who possess extraordinary mental powers.

FIC MCG
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. The Moorchild. 1st ed. New York, NY :  Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1996. 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.

FIC MAC
McKinley, Robin. The Blue Sword. 1st ed. New York :  Greenwillow Books, c1982. Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

FIC MYE
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Shadow of the Red Moon. New York :  Scholastic, 1995. As the Fens attack his home in Crystal City, fifteen-year-old Jon is sent into the Wilderness with other young Okalians to search for the Ancient City, but what he finds is something very different.

FIC NIX
Nix, Garth. Sabriel. 1st American ed. New York :  HarperCollins, 1996. 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.

FIC NOD
Nodelman, Perry. The Same Place But Different. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. Young John Nesbit enters the world of the Strangers in order to rescue his baby sister whom the fairies have replaced with a Changeling.

FIC PAT
Pattison, Darcy. The Wayfinder. 1st ed. New York :  Greenwillow, c2000. Eleven-year-old Win, an apprentice Finder, must go into the mysterious Great Rift to find the Well of Life, the only hope of healing the Heartland of plague.

FIC PIE
Pierce, Tamora. Alanna : the First Adventure. New York : Random House, [1987], c1983. 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 proves to be capable of high adventure.

FIC PUL
Pullman, Philip, 1946-. The Amber Spyglass. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2000. Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

FIC ROD
Rodda, Emily. The Pigs are Flying! New York : Greenwillow Books, 1988, c1986. After complaining that her life is uninteresting, Rachel finds herself transported to a place where periodic storms occur which affect the inhabitants in strange ways and cause pigs to float in the air.

FIC ROW
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York : Scholastic, [1999], c1997. Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

FIC SPR
Springer, Nancy. Red Wizard. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1990. Seventh-grader Ryan is whisked from his world into a fantasy kingdom by an incompetent wizard trying to find the perfect color red, but the mistake may avert a crisis with a rebel warlock and help Ryan solve a problem with his own father.

FIC STE
Stevenson, Laura Caroline, 1946-. The Island and the Ring. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991. After treachery destroys her kingdom, Princess Tania discovers that it is her destiny to confront Ascanet, the ruthless lord enslaving the island of Elyssonne.

FIC STR
Strickland, Brad. Dragon's Plunder. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :  Toronto : New York : Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. Having been kidnapped by former pirates because of his ability to whistle up the wind, fifteen-year-old Jamie agrees to help their leader, a living corpse, find the dragon of Windrose Island.

FIC TOL
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1994, c1966. The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.

FIC TUR
Turner, Megan Whalen. Instead of Three Wishes. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1995. A plague of leprechaun -- Leroy Roachbane -- Factory -- Aunt Charlotte and the NGA portraits -- Instead of three wishes -- The nightmare -- The baker king. A collection of seven stories featuring such elements of fantasy as leprechauns, ghosts, and the supernatural.

FIC TUR
Turner, Megan Whalen. The Queen of Attolia. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2000. Forsaken by the gods and left to his own devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.

FIC TWA
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York : W. Morrow, c1988. Nineteenth-century mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the inhabitants.

FIC URE
Ure, Jean. Wizard in Wonderland. 1st U.S. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1993. Joel and Gemma are enjoying a visit to Wonderland with their friend, junior wizard Ben-Muzzy, when his magic broomstick is stolen by the Airy Fairies.

FIV VAN
Vande Velde, Vivian. A Well-Timed Enchantment. 1st Magic Carpet Books ed. San Diego, Calif. : Magic Carpet Books/Harcourt Brace, 1998. A girl and her cat disappear back in time to retrieve a lost watch.

FIC VOI
Voigt, Cynthia. Elske. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999. Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.

FIC WIN
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the Attic. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1985. A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.

FIC YEP
Yep, Laurence. Dragon Cauldron. 1st ed. New York, NY :  HarperCollins Publishers, c1991. A dragon named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend the magic cauldron needed to repair the dragon's home.

FIC YOL
Yolen, Jane. Here There Be Dragons. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1993. Why dragons? -- Great-grandfather dragon's tale -- The dragon woke and stretched -- "Story," the Old Man said -- Cockfight -- Dragon night -- Dragonfield -- The King's dragon -- Into the wood. A collection of both new and old previously published stories and poems about dragons by Jane Yolen.

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09/26/2002