Alexander, Lloyd
TIME CAT
Jason's cat, Gareth, has only one life, but he does have the power to visit nine different lives and to take Jason with him. Quick as a cat's wink, Jason and Gareth are caught up in a dangerous and exciting adventure in ancient Egypt. (Grades 4-5)
Avi
POPPY
A story of bravery and an overthrown tyrant featuring the heroine, Poppy a small deer mouse and the evil Mr. Ocax, a great horned owl. (Grades 5-6)
Bellairs, John
THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR
It was a warm summer day in 1951 when Rose and Mrs. Zimmermann entered the tunnel. It was a snowy day in 1828 when they emerged and encountered a sorcerer more terrifying than either could ever have imagined. (Grades 6-7)
Coville, Bruce
JENNIFER MURDLEY'S TOAD
Jennifer Murdley would give anything to be beautiful, and her quest leads her to Mr. Elives' magic shop where she buys a very ugly toad. It is then that she discovers that with a talking toad anything can happen. (Grades 4-5)
Cooper, Susan
THE BOGGART
After visiting a castle in Scotland, 12 year old Emily discovers the family has brought home a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. (Grades 4-6)
Cresswell, Helen
THE SECRET OF POLLY FLINT
Polly Flint can see things other people can't and when her family has to move to her Aunt Em's in Willow she meets Old Mazy. Mazy has escaped the time net that holds the rest of her village captive in a time not their own. Although this village is lost to the sight of others, Polly can see them, but can she help them? (Grades 6-8)
Cross, Gillian
PICTURES IN THE DARK
A chance photograph taken for school camera club draws Charlie into the emotionally troubled lives of a classmate's family, especially her little brother who has an unbelievable secret. (Grades 6-8)
Dana, Barbara
ZUCCHINI
Escaping from one cage, Zucchini ends up in another at the ASPCA where he is rescued by Billy. Billy loves animals, especially Zucchini, but he is too shy to show Zucchini how much he cares. So, when a misunderstanding arises, Zucchini feels rejected and runs away. Will he return to keep a promise? (Grades 4-5)
Duane, Diane
SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD?
Thirteen year old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension. (Grades 5-7)
Dunlop, Eileen
WEBSTERS' LEAP
In a gloomy castle in Scotland, Jill and Tad discover, on their computer, a villainous plot from the past. (Grades 6-8)
Eager, Edward
SEVEN-DAY MAGIC
It looked just like an ordinary library book, but when friends, Barnaby, John, Susan, Abbie and Fredericka open the book they see that it is all about them. So, for the next seven days, until the book is due back at the library, the children wish themselves into all kinds of magical adventures and the book records them all. (Grades 4-6)
Farmer, Nancy
THE WARM PLACE
When, Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magic powers of the animal world to find the warm place that is home. (Grades 6-8)
Fletcher, Susan
SIGN OF THE DOVE
The third in a series of tales about the queen dragons and their hatchlings and their escape from their human hunters. (Grades 6-8)
Gray, Luli
FALCON'S EGG
Eleven-year old Falcon finds a glowing red egg and decides to keep it. When a dragon hatches from it, Falcon names the dragon Egg and struggles to raise and keep the hatchling. (Grades 4-6)
Goudge, Elizabeth
LINNETS AND VALERIANS
What do the four Linnet children do when they are sent to live with Grandma who hates dogs and thinks that children should be seen and not heard? They run away, of course! It is then that the real fun begins as they travel through the English countryside meeting all sorts of peculiar characters. (Grades 4-6)
Grahame, Kenneth
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
The wild adventures of four animal friends who live along a river in the English country-side. They are bashful Mole, practical Badger, wise Rat and boastful Toad. (Grades 3-5)
Hilgartner, Beth
COLORS IN THE DREAMWEAVER'S LOOM
Distraught over her father's death, Zan wanders into the forest and into a fantasy world where she becomes involved in the Orathi's fight to save their homeland from invaders. (Grades 6-8)
Hite, Sid
ANSWER MY PRAYER
Ebol, a lazy angel, rescues Lydia, the lovelorn heroine, and frees the land of Korasan from its crooked, ruler. (Grades 6-8)
Hutchins, Hazel
THE THREE AND MANY WISHES OF JASON REID
Eleven- year old Jason Reid is granted three wishes which land him and his friends in some hilarious scrapes. (Grades 3-5)
Jacques, Brian
THE BELLMAKER
Brave heroes and evil villains battle to save innocent lives and preserve the blissful peace and plenty of the world of Redwall Abbey. (Grades 4-5)
Jennings, Paul
UNCOVERED! WEIRD, WEIRD, STORIES
Visit the weird, weird part of your imagination where anything can happen. (Grades 5-8)
Jones, Diana Wynne
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
Christopher Chant intends to be a professional ballplayer, and he wants nothing to do with magic. Unfortunately, it is not his choice to make, and he finds himself being dragged away from all his friends for a crash course in sorcery. This is the adventure filled prequel to CHARMED LIFE and WITCH WEE.(Grades 6-8)
Langton, Jane
THE DIAMOND IN THE WINDOW
Never knowing when or where they will wake up, Eleanor and Eddy search a dreamworld filled with mystery, magic, and good and evil trying to find out what has happened to their missing relatives. (Grades 6-8)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
THE FARTHEST SHORE
Ged sets out to confront his past, to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea, and to pit himself against a madness that draws life into death. (Grades 6-8)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
CATWINGS
Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings. But it meant that someday, Harriet, Roger, Thelma and James could fly away from the dangerous city slum where they were born. The day came for them to leave, but who could have known the adventures the four kittens would find. (Grades 3-5)
Levine, Gail Carson
ELLA ENCHANTED
Lucinda did not mean to lay a curse on Ella. She meant to bestow a gift, the gift of obedience. Ella wants nothing more than to be free from Lucinda's gift, for how can she truly belong to herself if she knows that at any time, anyone can order her to do anything. This is the funny story of Ella's quest to break the curse.(Grades 6-8)
Lisle, Janet
LOOKING FOR JULIETTE
Three young people, with vivid imaginations, misread clues, perceive danger where there is none and in the process learn to become more tolerant of each other's differences. (Grades 3-5)
Lyon, George Ella
HERE AND THEN
This first person narrative is the story of a present-day girl who takes part in a Civil War reenactment and finds that she has traveled back in time to the real Civil War where she meets a civil war nurse who helped soldiers in both the Union and Confederate armies. (Grades 5-7)
Mc Graw, Eloise
THE MOORCHILD
Feeling that she is neither human nor "Folk", a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she has taken. (Grades 5-7)
McKinley, Robin
BEAUTY
A retelling of the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST story in which Beauty grows to love the beast and her love releases him from the spell that turned him from a handsome prince to an ugly beast. (Grades 7-8)
Nesbit, Edith
THE DELIVERERS OF THE THEIR COUNTRY
A fantastic tale about dragons, that appear in modern life, and the two children who vanquish them. (Grades 4-6)
Nodelman, Perry
THE SAME PLACE BUT DIFFERENT
When a door between the faerie world and the real world is left open, John Nesbit's baby sister is replaced by a changeling. This thoroughly modern teen finds he must journey to the land of the faeries to get her back. He reacts to the mythical creatures with disbelief, sarcasm and finally amusement. (Grades 4-7)
Norton, Mary
BEDKNOB AND BROOMSTICK
On a visit to the country one summer, the Wilson children discovered Miss Price riding on a broomstick. She was practicing to become a witch. To be certain that the children, Charles, Carey and Paul, would keep her secret, Miss Price gave magic power to the brass bedknob of one of the big old beds in which they slept. So their adventures began with a magic bed that would take them anyplace, as long as they did not tell Miss Price's secret. (Grades 4-5)
Pierce, Tamora
EMPEROR MAGE
Part of the Immortals series, this is the third book about a Daine, the orphan girl, who "wild imagery" a special ability to understand and heal animals. (Grades 5-6)
Pinkwater, Daniel
ATTILA THE PUN: A MAGIC MOSCOW STORY
When the Mystic Seer from Hoboken and the employees of the Magic Moscow ice cream parlor summon the ghost of a famous person, they get a punster with a collection of 1500-year-old jokes.(Grades 4-6)
Pullman, Philip
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
In Lyra's world, each human has a "daemon", an animal familiar with whom one's life and destiny are entwined. Kidnapped children, armored bears, and evil science experiments are just some of the things that Lyra and her "daemon" become involved with as they face her destiny. (Grades 6-8)
Rush, Alison
THE LAST OF DANU'S CHILDREN
Matt and Kate must enter another world and time and fight the forces of evil to save Kate's sister Anna from the terrible Horned God. A powerful tale of magic and terror. (Grades 6-8)
Sandburg, Carl
ROOTABAGA STORIES
Meet the "White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy", enjoy the "Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle" and learn how the "Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat". These and many other humorous, fantasy stories are waiting for you inside the covers of this book. (Grades 4-7)
Seldon, George
THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE
Chester Cricket arrives in Times Square in a picnic basket and takes up residence in a newsstand. He is lucky enough to make three good friends, Tucker; a mouse, Harry, a cat, and a boy a boy named Mario. Together they help to bring success to the almost bankrupt newsstand. (Grades 4-6)
Smith, Sherwood
WREN'S WAR
In this sequel to WREN TO THE RESCUE and WREN'S QUEST, the young magic apprentice, Tyron, helps Wren and her friends, acting queen, Teressa and Prince Connor, protect their kingdom when it is attacked by wicked King Andreus. (Grades 6-8)
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
THE WITCHES OF WORM
Is Worm a witch's cat? Was Mrs. Fortune, the strange old lady downstairs, responsible for the awful things Worm did? Jessica had to know because of the terrible things that Worm was making her do. Finding out what made Worm the cat he was, was the answer to Jessica's problems, but it wasn't the answer she wanted or expected. (Grades 6-7)
Turner, Megan
THE THIEF
Gen uses his cleverness as a thief on an adventure to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. (Grades 7-9)
Waugh, Sylvia
MENNYMS ALONE
The continuing story of a family of life-sized rag dolls who live in a house in England and pretend to be human. In this story, Sir Magnus, the grandfather, has a premonition that they will all soon return to being lifeless and useless. (Grades 5-7)
Yolen, Jane
PASSAGER
A feral child who has forgotten where he came from and has lost his ability to speak is captured and tamed by a friendly falconer, who helps him recover. This is the first book in a trilogy about Merlin. (Grades 5-7)
