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13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear — Walter Moers
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
Dream Merchant — Isabel Hoving
East — Edith...
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Once upon a time….
The world of children's and teen fantasy literature is more than just magic mirrors, princesses,...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
illustrated by John Tenniel
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Teen fantasy horror author (she really was a teen when she started publishing!).
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In the Forests of the Night (1999)
Demon in My View...
Personify those animals!
Redwall Series — Brian Jacques
Warriors Series — Erin Hunter
Vampires, werewolves, and others are big players in Klause's books.
Titles
Silver Kiss (1990)
Alien Secrets (1993)
Blood and Chocolate (1997)
Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! (2006)
Biography
General...
Important updates and announcements about More Than Magic Mirrors!
14 November 2007: Tomorrow I'm giving a presentation on fantasy literature for teens — there are so many books, I hardly know...
Once Upon a Time edited by Lester del Rey & Risa Kessler
A Treasury Of Modern Fairy Tales
Del Rey, Ballantine: 2002, 1991.
Description
336pgs
A collection of ten fantasy stories.
Short bios of...
Short descriptive phrase about the author.
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Titles in Series
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General Awards
Offsite Pages
Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Series Description
Series Page
Amulet of Samarkand
(2004)
Summary
Golem's Eye
(2005)
Summary
Ptolemy's Gate
(2006)
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Beauty by Robin McKinley
A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast.
Fairy Tales
HarperCollins, 1978.
Description
0-06-024149-7 / 247pgs.
Set in 11/14 Video Garamond; formatted by...
Beauty and the Beast is a classic French fairy tale relating the story of a girl who is traded to a beast in payment for her father's error in judgment. She eventually grows to love the beast; her...
Beka Cooper: Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Random House, 2006.
Description
978-0-375-81468-6 / 563pgs
This is Tortall in pre-Alanna days (200 years earlier).
Includes glossary, cast of characters, end...
Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill
Chicken House, Scholastic: 2007.
High Fantasy
Description
0-439-84122-4 / 574pgs
Text type: M Horley Old Style
Book designed by Elizabeth B Parisi
The continuing saga...
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Which tastes sweeter — blood or chocolate?
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ISBN / number of pages
Movie opening 26 January 2007.
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A summary of the book here,...
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Not yet published.
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ISBN / number of pages
Book two of The Provost's Dog trilogy, detailing the further adventures of Beka Cooper as she deals with...
Blue Girl by Charles DeLint
Viking, Penguin: 2004.
Urban Fantasy
Description
0-670-05924-2 / 368pgs.
Fantasy folklore, dream warnings, the return of imaginary friends, school bullies, and family...
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
High Fantasy
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Harry Crewe —
Corlath —
Narknon —
Prequels, Sequels, Companion Books
Sequel to The Hero and the Crown
Awards &...
Books of Pellinor by Alison Croggon
Series Description
An epic fantasy quartet detailing the life and adventures of once-slave Maerad and the legendary land of Annar.
The Naming
(2002 / 2005...
For more titles, crossovers written for adults but great for teens, visit Crossover Titles.
Not all books included in the wiki are on this page — others are simply listed in the details &...
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There are over 8,000 book trailers on YouTube, so you can imagine how many fanvids there are for books like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight — those aren't included here. This page merely collects...
Brian Jacques writes mostly animal-fantasy and is the author of the popular Redwall series.
Titles
Redwall series
Redwall (1986)
Mossflower (1988)
Mattimeo (1989)
Mariel of Redwall...
Crossing the boundaries of history and fantasy… the rich legends of Camelot.
Avalon: The Return of King Arthur — Stephen R. Lawhead
Dragon's Keep — Janet Lee Carey
Dragon's Son — Sarah L...
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Fintan's Tower
Snow-Walker
Darkwater Hall
The Lammas Field
Corbenic
Darkhenge
Incarceron
Book of the Crow
The Relic Master
The...
Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy by Kate Constable
Series Description
Trilogy.
The Singer of All Songs
2002. Arthur A Levine Books, Scholastic: 2004.
ISBN: 0439554780, 297pgs.
The Waterless Sea
2003....
Dragons
Elf
Fairy
Fairy Godmother
Giants
Gnomes
Goblins
Knights
Orphans
Princess
Royal Family
Shape-shifters
Sprites
Trolls
Vampires
Witch/Wizard
Titles
Little (Grrl) Lost (2007)
Old Man Crow (2007)
Promises to Keep (2007)
Widdershins (2006)
The Blue Girl (2004)
Spirits in the Wires (2003)
Medicine Road (2003)
Seven Wild Sisters...
Chrestomanci Series by Diana Wynne Jones
Series Description
Magic, orphans, magic school…
Suggested reading order: Charmed Life followed by The Lives of Christopher Chant. Then Conrad's Fate and...
Christopher Paolini was a teen writing sensation when he got the first book of his Inheritance trilogy published. (For more, see dragons.)
Titles
Inheritance Trilogy
Eragon
Eldest
Biography
Born:...
This well-traveled author was making enough from his writing to be a full-time author when he left college.
Titles
Storm Thief, 2006
Poison, 2003
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, 2001
Broken Sky,...
Before Midnight — Cameron Dokey
Bound — Donna Jo Napoli
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister — Gregory Maguire
Ella Enchanted — Gail Carson Levine
I Was a Rat! — Philip Pullman
Just Ella —...
Claidi Journals by Tanith Lee
Series Description
Wolf Tower
(1998)
Summary
Wolf Star
(2000)
Summary
Wolf Queen
(2001)
Summary
Wolf Wing
(2002)
Comments
This former librarian began writing her books after the family moved to Germany.
Titles
Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
Hollow Kingdom (2003)
Close Kin (2004)
In Coils of the Snake (2005)
Others
By These...
Time-tested & family-proven adventures and tales, with at least a spark of magic, personification of animals, a feeling of fables and fairy tales, or some other fantastic trait.
See also...
Close Kin by Clare B Dunkle
Henry Holt and Company: 2004.
Description
080507497X / 216pgs.
Summary
The magical story of two sisters.
Characters
Emily
Kate
Prequels, Sequels, Companion...
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Illustrated by Dave McKean
HarperCollins, 2002.
Description
0-380-97778-8 / 162pgs
A spooky and splendid combination of fantasy and horror with an Alice in Wonderland...
Short descriptive phrase about the author.
Titles
Dragon Rider
Ghosthunters Series
Inkheart (2004)
Inkspell (2005)
Pirate Girl
The Princess Knight
The Thief Lord
The Wildest Brother
When Santa...
Many fantasy books written for adults are also wonderful reads for teens — so good, in fact, that it's sometimes difficult to tell for whom they were written!
Elantris — Brandon...
Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
The Chicken House, Scholastic: 2005.
Epic Fantasy
Description
0-439-68626-1 / 472pps
Set in 12-point Horley Old Style font.
"Blood! Blast! and...
Cup of the World by John Dickinson
David Fickling Books, Random House, 2004.
Description
ISBN: 0385750250 / 419pgs
Pictoral map of the mountain kingdom included on front and endpieces.
Love,...
The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
Series Notes
Walden Media bought the screen rights to all five books: The Dark Is Rising, Over Sea, Under Stone, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver...
Dark Reflections Trilogy by Kai Meyer
Series Description
Translated by Elizabeth D Crawford from the German.
Also known as the Flowing Queen Trilogy.
Water Mirror
Die Fliebende...
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Description
Book One of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.
Portions of the first two chapters of this book were published previously as the short story "The...
Fantasy books are often heavily detailed, creating entire new worlds with new laws, languages, countries….
Animals (Symbolic & Helpful)
Books
Book Trailers
Curses
Doorways, Passageways
Fairy...
One of the most prolific fantasy writers for youth.
Titles
Chrestomanci
Charmed Life, 1977
The Lives of Christopher Chant, 1988
Magicians of Caprona, 1980
Witch Week, 1982
Dalemark Quartet
Cart...
This author of 40+ novels is also a screenwriter — plus she writes comics and computer games.
Titles
Young Wizards
So You Want to be a Wizard?
Deep Wizardry
High Wizardry
Wizard Abroad
Wizard's...
A French fairy tale told by Charles Perrault and also included in the Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.
Deerskin — Robin McKinley
Donna Jo Napoli is the author fairy tale retellings as well as many other titles. Only fantasy and fairy tale retellings are listed below.
Titles
Prince of the Pond (1) (1992)
Magic Circle...
Dragons are popular mythical creatures used in many fantasy stories. Usually winged and often fire-breathing, they pose particularly serious threat to knights and princesses.
Some dragon books are...
Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
Harcourt Books: 2007.
Description
978-0-15-205926-2/ 302pgs
Text set in Adobe Garamond; designed by April Ward.
Summary
Characters
Rosalind — Princess and...
Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox
Frances Foster Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2005.
Description
978-0-374-31853-6 / 365pgs
Map included at front of book
Elizabeth Knox's first book for younger...
Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
Series Description
The story of Laura, a dreamhunter in training. Her father, who discovered the Place — where dreams can be caught and shared — has...
Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving
Candlewick Press: 2005.
Description
0-7636-2880-8 / 630pgs.
Translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans.
Published in the Netherlands as The Winged Cat.
Has a List...
Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
Book Two in the Dreamhunter Duet
Frances Foster Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007.
Description
978-0-374-31854-3 / 442pgs.
3 maps in the front
Glossary
First...
East by Edith Pattou.
Harcourt, 2003.
Description
A deft and delightful weaving of East of the Sun and West of the Moon and Beauty and the Beast, told from the viewpoint of various characters....
A Norwegian fairy tale.
East by Edith Pattou
Titles
Frog Princess
Dragon's Breath
Once Upon a Curse, 2004
No Place for Magic
Biography
E.D. Baker has three children and lives and Maryland with three horses, two dogs, three cats, and a goat...
Titles
Song of Eirren series
Fire Arrow, 1991
Hero's Song, 1998
Other
East, 2003 (British title: North Child)
Biography
Edith Pattou lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and daughter.
She was...
International award-winning author of fiction.
Titles
After Z-Hour (1987)
Paremata (1989)
Treasure (1992)
Pomare (1994)
Glamour and the Sea (1996)
Tawa (1998)
Vintner's Luck (1998)
The High Jump:...
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Description
Retelling of the Cinderella story.
Summary
Characters
Ella —
Prequels, Sequels, Companion Books
Reviews
Awards & Honors
LC Cataloging...
Elsewhere by Will Shetterly
Tor, 1992.
Urban Fantasy
Description
One of those edgy fantasies "where magic meets the mean streets."
Summary
Seeking out his runaway brother, Ron heads to...
Emma Bull is an award-winning fantasy author who has a fabulous cowboy hat.
Titles
Falcon (1985)
War for the Oaks. (1987)
Bone Dance. (1991)
Double Feature (story collection with Will Shetterly)....
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
Series Description
Four books about a princess who has run away from home and ends up living with a dragon.
Dealing with Dragons
(1990)
Searching for...
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Description
A time-traveling retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Summary
Characters
Ivan — Russian-Jewish American college student who overcomes the spell on Katerina...
Faeries may start out in our minds as sweet innocent magical creatures, small and winged. But as literature matures, so do the faeries, and they often weave a little darkness into the...
A fairy godmother can be either a blessing or a curse.
Cinderella stories make great use of the fairy godmother character; Sleeping Beauty stories also often have at least one, though they are most...
Beauty — Robin McKinley (sisters & father)
Blade of Fire — Stuart Hill (parents & siblings)
Chrestomanci — Diana Wynne Jones (siblings, feuding families)
Dreamhunter Duet —...
Definitions of Fantasy
The American Heritage Dictionary defines fantasy as: Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.
Fantasy fiction contains elements of magic, myth,...
A-G
Alexander, Lloyd. (Chronicles of Prydain)
Allen, Will. (Swords for Hire)
Anthony, Piers.
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.
Baker, E.D.
Barron, T.A..
Baum, L Frank. (Wizard of Oz)
Bell,...
We read ALOT! And we don't just read fantasy. Here are just a few of our favourite books!
Emily
Fantasy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
Beauty — Robin McKinley
Coraline —...
Finder by Emma Bull
Tor, 1994.
Urban Fantasy
Description
Summary
In Bordertown, where a hybrid community of elves, halflings, humans co-exist, a murderous plot has been hatched to induce humans...
Titles
Well Wished (1997)
Folk Keeper (1999)
Biography
Oldest of 5 children.
Grew up hearing American folk songs and Scottish ballads sung by her father at bedtime.
Spent 5th grade in Denmark,...
Door in the Hedge — Robin McKinley
Frog Princess — E.D. Baker
Prince of the Pond — Donna Jo Napoli
Water Song — Suzanne Weyn
Gail Carson Levine writes retold and revisioned fairy tales, often with strong female characters.
Titles
Ella Enchanted (1997) (Newbery Honor)
Dave at Night (1999)
Princess Test (1999)*
Fairy's...
Sci-fi, fantasy, necromancy…
Titles
The Ragwitch
Shade's Children
Across the Wall
The Old Kingdom
Sabriel
Lirael
Abhorsen
Keys to the Kingdom
Mister Monday
Grim Tuesday
Drowned Wednesday
Sir...
Ghost stories — fantasy or science fiction…?
Beating Heart — A.M. Jenkins
Certain Slant of Light — Laura Whitcomb
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Hollow Kingdom Trilogy — Clare B Dunkle
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Knopf: 1996.
—or Northern Lights
Scholastic, 1995.
Description
ISBN / number of pages
Summary
Characters
Lyra —
Lord Asriel —
Mrs Coulter —
Prequels,...
The theme of good vs. evil is a standard element of fantasy literature.
Books of Pellinor quartet — Alison Croggon
Cup of the World — John Dickinson
East — Edith Pattou
His Dark Materials —...
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Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Bloomsbury, Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2003.
Description
Retelling of the Grimms Brothers tale Goose Girl.
Includes map of Kildenree and Bayern in the...
Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Delacorte Books, 2003.
Description
Historical fiction (1895) of prim and proper English school-girl society that dips into the supernatural.
Tapped for a...
Hallowmere by Tiffany Trent
Series Description
A dark historical fantasy taking place at the end of the Civil War.
Hallowmere Website
Hallowmere Trailer
Publisher's Pages
Trailer
In the...
Hansel's Eyes — Garth Nix (from Wolf At the Door : and Other Retold Fairy Tales)
Magic Circle — Donna Jo Napoli
Harry Potter books quickly took over the world of youth fantasy, leaving teachers, parents, authors, librarians, and readers scrambling to find read-alikes. Here are a few of the most similar...
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Series Description
Harry Potter — wizard student at Hogwarts and world-wide phenomenon!
A seven-book series with more hype than any other fantasy books —...
The Healer's Keep by Victoria Hanley
Description
This companion book to The Seer and the Sword is a wonderful fantasy that spans the real fantasy world and its dreamworld. Dorjan and Sara, two...
High Fantasy & Epic Fantasy, often dealing with alternate worlds, heroes, quests, battles, etcetera.
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Icemark Chronicles —...
A gaming ex-librarian who writes fantasy & sci-fi.
Titles
Songs of Power (2000)
Navohar (2000)
Matter of Profit (2001)
The Goblin Wood (2003)
The Wizard Test (2005)
Prophecy (2006)
Shield of...
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Series Description
Trilogy.
Being made into movies.
Golden Compass
(date of publication)
Summary
Subtle Knife
(date of publication)
Summary
Amber...
Dreamhunter Duet — Elizabeth Knox
Great and Terrible Beauty — Libba Bray
Keturah and Lord Death — Martine Leavitt
Hallowmere: In the Serpent's Coils — Tiffany Trent
Perilous Gard — Elizabeth Pope
Hollow Kingdom by Clare B Dunkle
Series Description
Trilogy
Hollow Kingdom
(2003)
Summary
Close Kin
(2004)
Summary
In the Coils of the Snake
(2005)
Summary
Comments
Hollow Kingdom by Clare B Dunkle
Henry Holt and Company: 2003.
Description
0805073906 / 230pgs
Summary
Characters
Kate
Emily
Prequels, Sequels, Companion Books
First in the Hollow Kingdom...
Holly is the much-acclaimed author of the popular Spiderwick Chronicles and the edgy Modern tales of Faerie.
Titles
Modern Tales of Faerie
Tithe (2002)
Valiant (2005)
Ironside (2006)
Spiderwick...
Fantasy books dealing with supernatural beings, shape-changers, and other such persona can lead to scary, creepy, and frightening fantasy.
If you have questions, make a mistake you can't fix, or want to add something that isn't there, please just send me a message! — emily
To edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at...
Icemark Chronicles by Stuart Hill
Series Description
The adventures of Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Wildcat of the North, as she protects her kingdom from invaders. A...
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Chicken House: 2003.
Description
0439531640 / 534pgs.
Translated by Anthea Bell
Movie in the making (Visit this page for info.)
Summary
Travel through a book into the...
An awarded children's author.
Titles
Dream Merchant
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Was a secondary school teacher.
Active in the Dutch women's movement.
Lives in Amsterdam with her...
Crazy Jack — Donna Jo Napoli
Twice Upon a Time — Denise Little
Called the Hans Christian Andersen of American, Jane Yolen is an author of children's books, fantasy, and science fiction.
Titles
Armageddon Summer
Briar Rose
Children of the Wolf
Devil's...
Titles
Saint of Dragons, 2004.
Samurai, 2006.
Biography
Graduated from University of Southern California.
His short film Delusions won best of show, writing, direction, and cinematography at the...
Famous for writing parts of her books on cafe napkins!
Titles
Harry Potter Series
Biography
General Awards
Offsite Pages
JK Rowling Official Site
Titles
Cup of the World (2004)
The Widow and the King (2005)
Biography
John Dickinson worked for the Ministry of Defense (in England) and NATO, but with work and family responsibilities, it took...
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Titles
Chanters of Tremaris
Singer of All Songs
Waterless Sea
Tenth Power
Biography
Offsite Pages
Official Site
Keturah and Lord Death Martine Leavitt
Front Street, Boyds Mills Press, Inc.: 2006.
Description
978-1-932425-29-1 / 214pgs
Summary
After following a hart into the woods bordering her town,...
Frequently associated with the tales of Camelot, knights are often standards of justice and protectors of virtue. However, many knights are simply human, striving to do their best; others can be...
Writes thriller fantasy for teens.
Titles
Bleed (2006)
Titles in Series
Blue is For Nightmares (2006)
White is for Magic (2004)
Silver is for Secrets (2005)
Red is for Remembrance...
Titles
Great and Terrible Beauty
Rebel Angels
Biography
Offsite Pages
Libba Bray's Official Site
Light of the Oracle by Victoria Hanley
David Fickling: Random House, 2005.
"Those who serve the Oracle see what others miss."
Description
Takes place in the land of Sorana.
Map and glossary...
Good (fantasy) lit links not included on any other pages…
FantasyBookSpot: Fantasy book reviews
Internet Book List
Reads 4 Teens
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
SciFan: Books &...
Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles deLint
Viking, Penguin Group: 2007.
Urban Fantasy
Description
978-0-670-06144-0 / 271pgs
Also known as Little Girl Lost.
Based off a short story by the same name in...
Newbery-award winning author of the Prydain Cycle and over 30 other books.
Titles
Prydain Cycle
Book of Three (1964)
Black Cauldron (1965)
Castle of Llyr (1966)
Taran Wanderer (1967)
High King...
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
High Fantasy
Series Description
Trilogy plus a prequel.
The Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers
Return of the King
Comments
True love, tortured love, false love, magical love, cursed love….
Beauty — Robin McKinley
Blue Sword — Robin McKinley
Claidi Journals — Tanith Lee
Cup of the World — John Dickinson
East...
Her Plague of Sorcerers book had many similarities to the Harry Potter series.
Titles
Jermyn Graves
Plague of Sorcerers (1991)
Journeyman Wizard (1994)
Voyage of the Bassett
(#5) Fire...
Titles
Monster in Me
Mira, Mirror
Princess and the Hound, 2007
Biography
Writer, mother, triathlete, professor….
Has a PhD in Germanic Literature
Lives in Utah with her husband and five...
Mira, Mirror by Mette Ivie Harrison
Viking, Penguin Group: 2004.
Description
0-670-05923-4 / 314pgs.
Cover art by Lori Koefoed.
Loosely based on the Snow White tale, this charming story is about...
More and more teen fantasy books are being made into movies….
For movies that have been made and are being made, check below.
(For book trailers, see the individual title pages or visit the Book...
Books of Pellinor quartet — Alison Croggon
Chanters of Tremaris series — Kate Constable
Hot Nights, Cool Dragons — Matt Zurbo
Pay the Piper — Jane Yolen
War for the Oaks — Emma...
Terrier — Tamora Pierce
Like fairy tales (and closely related to), many myths, legends, and tales have also been retold.
Camelot
Robin Hood
Tam Lin
The Naming by Alison Croggon
The First Book of Pellinor
Candlewick Press: 2005.
Description
0763626392 / 466pgs
First publishing in Australia under the title The Gift in 2002 by Penguin...
Neil Gaiman spans children's, young adult, and adult fantasy in novels, graphic novels, television, song lyrics, and film.
Titles
Coraline (2002)
MirrorMask (film, with Jim Henson Co and Dave...
Fantasy Medal and Honor Winners:
(There may be more from the early years.)
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
1998 Honor Book: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
1997...
Numbers often have significance in fantasy literature — the numbers 3, 7, 12 are commonly used.
3
7
Light of the Oracle — Victoria Hanley: 7 deities of Sorana
12
Other Numbers
Chanters of...
Authors & Others Discuss Fantasy
Offsite links to interviews, discussions, articles, and commentaries.
18 December 2006: Imaginary Friends by Ursula K. LeGuin
5 December 2005: Children's...
Books of Pellinor quartet — Alison Croggon
Chrestomanci — Diana Wynne Jones
Cry of the Icemark — Stuart Hill
Dial-A-Ghost — Eva Ibbotson
Folk Keeper — Frannie Billingsley
Golden Compass...
Books of Pellinor quartet by Alison Croggon
Fall of Ile Rien (series) — Martha Wells
Grew up in a household of girls — and now writes mainly for girls, since she understands them better.
Titles
Owl in Love (1993)
The Woman in the Wall (1997)
Goose Chase (2001)
Lost in the...
Titles
Lyra
Shadow Magic (1982)
Daughter of Witches (1983)
The Harp of Imach Thyssel (1985)
Caught in Crystal (1987)
The Raven Ring (1994)
Shadows over Lyra (omnibus) (1997)
Enchanted Forest...
Popular author of His Dark Materials series. He also has a series of mysteries (the Sally Lockhart quartet), other contemporary novels, short stories, plays, and a children's series (the New Cut...
After Hamelin — Bill Richardson
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents — Terry Pratchett
Breath — Donna Jo Napoli
King Rat — China Miéville.
Pit Dragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen
Series Description
Considered variously fantasy and science fiction — dragons often pose that problem.
On the planet Austar IV, dragons are fought in pits, like...
Plague of Sorcerers by Mary Frances Zambreno
Harcourt: 1991.
Description
0-15-262430-9 / 257pgs
Looking for a Harry Potter read-alike? This may be the closest you'll get. A young orphaned...
Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
Eos, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2007.
Fairy Tale
Description
006-113187-3 / 410pgs
A love story. Prince George is a possessor of the forbidden animal...
Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep — Gail Carson Levine
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure: the "good parts" version, abridged.
Ballantine Books, 1973.
Description
Characters
Buttercup...
Princesses are very popular characters in fantasy novels. Some of them are in need of rescuing, and some of them are just strong characters. See also Royal Families.
Dealing With Dragons —...
The Provost's Dogs by Tamora Pierce
Series Description
A planned trilogy.
This is Tortall in pre-Alanna days.
Terrier
Random House, 2006
Beka Cooper is a puppy, training to become one of the Dogs...
The Prydain Cycle by Lloyd Alexander
High Fantasy
Series Description
The following summaries are from the Scholastic site.
Book of Three
(1964)
Taran, The Assistant Pig-Keeper , longs to be a...
Rapunzel is the story of the girl raised by a witch and kept in the tallest of towers so she cannot escape.
Golden — Cameron Dokey
Zel — Donna Jo Napoli
Scarlet Moon — Debbie Vigue
Redwall Abbey by Brian Jacques
Series Description
Peaceful mice, squirrels, moles, shrews, and their friends face off against villainous rats, weasels, foxes, stoats, and their allies. Good vs...
Fantasy stories in Norway, Ireland, India…
British Isles
England
Harry Potter series — J.K. Rowling
Ireland
Chronicles of Faerie — O.R. Melling
Italy
Magicians of Caprona — Diana Wynne...
Other worlds and lands often carry their own religions and religious interpretations. Angels, gods, prophecies, seers
Cup of the World — John Dickinson
Healer's Keep — Victoria Hanley
Light of...
Fairy Tales, Myths, & Legends
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Donkeyskin
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Frog Prince/Princess
Hansel & Gretel
Jack & the Beanstalk
King Arthur &...
Forest Wife by Theresa Tomlinson
In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum
Maid Marian by Elsa Watson
Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest by Nancy Springer
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Beauty (1978)
Blue Sword (1982) (Newbery Honor)
Hero and the Crown (1984) (Newbery Award)
Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
Deerskin (1993)
Rose Daughter (1997)
Spindle's End (2000)
Water: Tales...
Princess and the Hound — Mette Ivie Harrison
Spinners — Donna Jo Napoli
Rumpelstiltskin Problem — Vivian Vande Velde
Saint of Dragons by Jason Hightman
HarperCollins, 2004.
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0060540117 / 291 pgs
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Dragons, those ancient creatures of legendary times, haven't died out or disappeared — they've...
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Goose Girl
Enna Burning
Princess Academy
River Secrets (2006)
Rapunzel's Revenge (2008)
Biography
Shannon Hale has been writing since she was 10 years old. She was an English major at the...
Shape-shifters… including werewolves and maybe vampires…
Werewolves
Blood and Choclate — Annette Curtis Klause
By These Ten Bones — Clare B Dunkle
Icemark Chronicles — Stuart Hill
New...
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Jenna Starborn
Wrapt in Crystal
Heart of Gold
Shapechanger's Wife
Summers at Castle Auburn
Safe-Keeper's Secret (2004)
Truth-Teller's Tale (2005)
Dream-Maker's Magic (2006)
Samaria...
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In fantasy stories, books are not usually recreational — they are more often items of magic or significant learning.
Books of Pellinor quartet — Alison Croggon
Inkheart — Cornelia Funke
So...
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Delacorte, 1990.
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A vampire love story.
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Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears by Ellen Datlow and Terri...
Snow-Walker by Catherine Fisher
High Fantasy
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Just as chilly as it sounds Snow-Walker is an epic fantasy tale, centering around the enchantress Gudrun and her son Kari — whom...
Fairest — Gail Carson Levine
Mira, Mirror — Mette Ivie Harrison
During the course of writing this wiki, these sources were consulted:
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
Lynn, Ruth Nadelman. Fantasy Literature for Children and...
So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
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It all begins when Nita discovers a book at the library — the Wizard's...
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen
Penguin/Dutton, 1999.
Fairy Tale
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Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.
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Summary: Elaborates on the events...
Sports & games can be found in a number of fantasy books — it's good to have a little healthy competition!
Harry Potter series — J.K. Rowling: quidditch
Summerland — Michael Chabon: baseball
Titles
Twilight series
Twilight (2005)
New Moon (2006)
Eclipse (Aug 2007)
Breaking Dawn
Midnight Sun
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Born in Connecticut in 1973, Stephenie now lives in Arizona (where she actually spent...
Many of today's fantasy books feature strong female characters — girls and women who are smart, spunky, and able to hold their own in the world.
Blue Sword — Robin McKinley
Books of Pellinor...
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Icemark Chronicles
Cry of the Icemark, 2005
Blade of Fire, 2007
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Born in Leicester, England.
Has worked as a teacher, an archaeologist, and a bookseller.
His favourite movie is the...
Titles
The Dark is Rising sequence
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
Other Books
Seaward
The Boggart
The Boggart and the Monster
Green...
Swords for Hire by Will Allen
Two of the most unlikely heroes you'll ever meet.
CenterPunch Press: 2003.
Adventure Fantasy
Description
0-9724882-0-0 / 168pgs.
A classic-style adventure fantasy...
Animals are fantasy tools, often symbolizing powers or acting as helpers to their human counterparts
See also Animal Fantasy.
Birds
Fairy's Return by Gail Carson Levine — magic goose helps a...
Tam Lin is a Scottish tale about mortals and faeries.
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Tithe by Holly Black
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
Offsite...
Author of five quartets, a duet, a just-begun trilogy, and other stories, Tamora Pierce (visit her site) is one of YA fantasy's leading and most prolific fantasy writers. Many of her series take...
Novelist and short-story writer — and used to be a librarian!
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Claidi Journals
AKA: Wolf Tower Sequence
1. Law Of The Wolf Tower (US title: Wolf Tower)
2. Wolf Star Rise (US title: Wolf...
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Being the demibiography of a seagoing bear, with numerous illustrations and excerpts from the Encyclopedia of the Marvels, Life Forms and...
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(pseudonym with a history too long and boring to be included here), creator & administrator, is a young adult librarian in Massachusetts. While in library school, she...
The curse is a frequent literary element used in magical fantasy and especially fairy tales. The curse often takes the form of transfiguring a human into an animal/beast (see Beauty and the Beast)...
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Greenwillow Books: 1984.
High Fantasy
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ISBN: 0688025935 / 246pgs
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Aerin — daughter of the king of Damar and a...
More Than Magic Mirrors had its inception in a classroom at Kent State University in 2001 when Esme was attending library school. She wanted to find/create a website that would link fantasy...
Writer and environmentalist.
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Tree Girl (2001)
The Great Tree of Avalon trilogy:
Child of the Dark Prophecy (2004)
Shadows on the Stars (2005)
The Eternal Flame (2006)
The Lost Years of...
Often, characters in fantasy books will go through a doorway of some kind to enter a new world. These doors can be literal doors, mirrors, dreams, windows, passageways…. The books listed below...
Time travel, a frequent tool in science fiction, is also sometimes used in fantasy.
Acceptable Time — Madeleine L'Engle
Ancient One — T.A. Barron
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court —...
Tithe by Holly Black
A Modern Faerie Tale.
Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Urban Fantasy
Description
0-689-84924-9 / 310pgs.
A telling of the Tam Lin story.
Verse from poems and songs introduce each...
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13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear — Walter Moers
Dark Reflections — Kai Meyer
Dream Merchant — Isabel Hoving
Inkheart — Cornelia Funke
Trickster Duet by Tamora Pierce
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Two books recounting part of the life of Alanna's daughter, Aly.
Trickster's Choice
Random House: 2003.
Trickster's Queen
Random House:...
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
Random House, 2003.
Description
Unlike her other series, the stories of Aly will not be a quartet like Pierce's other books — there are just these...
Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce
Random House, 2004.
Night Dance — Suzanne Weyn
Phoenix Dance — Dia Calhoun
Twelve Dancing Princesses — Patricia McKillip (from A Wolf At the Door : and Other Retold Fairy Tales)
Twelve Dancing Princesses —...
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Megan Tingley Books; Little, Brown and Co., 2005.
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When Bella moves from sunny Phoenix to gloomy Forks, she's sure she's in for the most rotten...
Where ancient fantasy of elves, faeries, and magic meet the modern world….
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Blue Girl — Charles de Lint
Bronze King — Suzy McKee Charnas
ElseWhere — Will Shetterly
Finder — Emma...
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Novels of the Ekumen
The Telling. (2000)
The Word for World Is Forest. (1976)
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. (1974)
The Left Hand of Darkness. (1969)
City of Illusion. (1967)
Planet...
Vampires, the undead — fantasy? science fiction? horror?
Because vampires often have some associations with magic and magical beings (being supernatural), vampire stories are often defined as...
Titles
Seer and the Sword (2000)
Healer's Keep (2002)
Light of the Oracle (2005)
Biography
Married to Tim and the mother of a son (Emrys) and daughter (Rose), Victoria Hanley was born in Southern...
Voyage of the Basset Series by Various Authors
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A trip of fantasy — like Darwin's trip of science in his Beagle….
(Following descriptions from the publisher.)
Voyage of the...
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Urban Fantasy
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A modern retelling of the Tam Lin tale.
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After dumping her boyfriend and ditching her band, Eddi McCandry one late night is...
Wars, battles, armies & navies… good vs. evil…
Blue Sword — Robin McKinely
Cup of the World — John Dickinson
Hero and the Crown — Robin McKinley
Icemark Chronicles — Stuart...
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The Widow and the King by John Dickinson
David Fickling Books, Random House, 2005.
High Fantasy
"You must not look for your son. You must look for mine."
Description
ISBN: 0385750846 / 613pgs
Map...
A one-book author, inspired by William Goldman.
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Swords for Hire
Biography
Grew up in Kettering, Ohio.
Wrote poems, songs, stories, short films.
Wrote & directed a college campus radio...
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Dogland
ElseWhere
NeverNever
Biography
Married to Emma Bull.
Offsite Pages
Will Shetterly's Blog
Official Page -- Qwerty Ranch
This page for witchcraft & sorcery is about more than just magic — this is the darker side, where magic is an undercraft used for cursing, wreaking havoc, causing wars, bringing vengeance —...
Balefire series — Cate Tiernan
Blue is for Nightmares — Laurie Faria Stolarz
Bras & Broomsticks — Sarah Mlynowski
Chrestomanci series — Diana Wynne Jones
Cry of the Icemark — Stuart...
Charmed Life — Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter series — J.K. Rowling
Lives of Christopher Chant — Diana Wynne Jones
Plague of Sorcerers — Mary Frances Zambreno
Wizard at Work — Vivian...
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen
Harcourt Brace, 1991.
Description
0-15-298132-2 / 133pgs
A Harry Potter read-alike.
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Henry, renamed Thornmallow (sharp on the outside, soft on the inside),...
A Wolf At the Door : and Other Retold Fairy Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000.
Fairy Tales
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0689821387 /...
Young Wizards by Diane Duane
Series Description
Nita and Kit are off on great adventures, training to become wizards.
See the Young Wizards website.
So You Want to be a Wizard
(1983)
Summary
Deep...
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Dutton, 1996.
Fairy Tale
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0-525-45612-0 / 227pgs
Retelling of Rapunzel, told in three alternating voices.
Switzerland, mid-1500s
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Zel and her mother live...