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Great FANTASY Books at the Pleasanton Public Library THE BOOK OF THREE by Lloyd Alexander How To Train Your Dragon: Heroic POPULAR Fantasy Series Grades 5-8 (216 p) Audiobook available Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Great Most are shelved in J Paperbacks by first letter of series title. Prydain Chronicles Haddock III by Cressida Cowell (may also be shelved in J Fiction by author’s last name) Taran, assistant pig-keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets Grades 3-5 (214 p) Audiobook available out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup FANTASY Books by Rachel Roberts forces of evil. Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the Avalon: Web of Magic important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Grades 4-6 at the MIDNIGHT MAGIC by Avi Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon. Circle of Magic by Debra Doyle and James Macdonald Grades 5-8 (249 p) Grades 4-6 In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda Pleasanton summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter Grades 4-8 (201 p) Audiobook available Grades 4-6 is indeed being haunted by a ghost. A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on DINOTOPIA by various authors witches, try to foil a witches’ plot. Grades 3-6 Public The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron Grades 5-8 (326 p) The Lost Years of Merlin series The field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black Disney Fairies by various authors A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past Grades 5-8 (107 p) The Spiderwick Chronicles Grades 2-4 Library washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Dragon Slayers’ Academy by Kate McMullen name after a series of fantastic adventures. Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other Grades 3-5 Compiled by the Pleasanton Library creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences. Peter and the starcatchers by Dave Barry Guardians of Ga’hoole by Kathryn Lasky Children’s Staff Grades 4-6 (J Paperbacks “L”) Grades 4-7 (451 p) Audiobook available Hatching Magic by Ann Downer Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Lily Quench by Natalie Jane Prior Grades 4-8 (242 p) Sequel: The Dragon of Never-Was Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Grades 3-5 mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard Pendragon by D. J. MacHale and the native inhabitants of a remote island. and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe Grades 5-8 may hold the secret to setting everything right. Pixie Tricks by Tracey West THE CURSE OF THE BLUE FIGURINE by John Bellairs Grades 2-4 Grades 5-8 (200 p) SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD by Diane Duane Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he Grades 6-8 (369 p) Young Wizards series Rainbow Magic by Daisy Meadows removes a blue figurine called a ushabti from church. Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she Grades 2-4 won’t fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbott Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer wizardry which guides her into another dimension. Grades 2-4 Grades 4-6 (277 p) Artemis Fowl series Seventh Tower by Garth Nix When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune HALF MAGIC by Edward Eager Grades 4-6 by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight Grades 4-8 (217 p) back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. Four children looking forward to an ordinary summer Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing Grades 3-6 Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins on an ancient coin. Unicorns of Balinor by Mary Stanton Grades 5-8 (311 p) Audiobook available Grades 4-6 Underland Chronicles The Unicorn’s Secret by Kathleen Duey When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister TH THE 13 FLOOR: A GHOST STORY Grades 2-4 are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger by Sid Fleischman Warriors by Erin Hunter an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and Grades 4-8 (134 p) Audiobook available Grades 5-8 spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth- Werewolf Club by Daniel Pinkwater Books are shelved in The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. Grades 2-4 Grades 5-8 (216 p) The Dark is Rising Sequence Children’s Fiction Voyage of the Basset by various authors On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of by author’s last name Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke Grades 4-7 the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable and/or Grades 5-8 (523 p) Audiobook available Children’s Paperbacks the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. A brownie, a dragon and an orphan boy go on a quest by first letter of author’s last name for a place safe from humans. Pleasanton Public Library Dragon slayers by Bruce Coville (unless otherwise noted). Grades 4-6 (119 p) Children’s Services A brave squire, an earnest page, and a strong-willed princess set out, Juniper by Monica Furlong 400 Old Bernal Ave. each for individual reasons, to try to slay the dragon created to carry Grades 6-8 (198 p) First in a trilogy Pleasanton, California 94566 Please ask at the Children’s Desk out a witch’s revenge. While apprenticed to a witch woman, Juniper struggles to save her if you need help. family from the evil machinations of her power-hungry aunt (925) 931-3400 JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER by Bruce Coville Meroot. Grades 4-8 (148 p) Audiobook available — Magic Shop series Hours: Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy PURE DEAD MAGIC by Debi Gliori Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon’s egg. Grades 3-6 (182 p) Pure Dead series Friday-Saturday: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Sunday: 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. JENNIFER MURDLEY’S TOAD by Bruce Coville Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and Grades 4-8 (159 p) Magic Shop series a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the When an ordinary-looking fifth grader purchases a Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. talking toad with an attitude, she embarks on a series of 6/2007 extraordinary adventures. FALCON’S EGG by Luli Gray The Merchant of Death by J. D. MacHale ROWAN of rin by Emily Rodda DEALING WITH DRAGONS by Patricia Wrede Grades 5-8 (133 p) First in a series Grades 4-7 (375 p) Pendragon series Grades 3-7 (197 p) Rowan series Grades 4-8 (212 p) Audiobook available Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother had Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, having learned he Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Enchanted Forest Chronicles made Falcon very responsible for an eleven-year-old, but she needs the is a Traveler--someone who can ride "flumes" through Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist time and space, is soon off to the alternative dimension their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved when she finds an unusual egg in Central Park. of Denduron where he teams up with Loor, a girl his age drive them back. with fighting against some disreputable wizards who from the warrior-territory of Zadaa, in an attempt to save want to steal away the dragons’ kingdom. Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman the gentle Milago people from slavery. The Charm Bracelet by Emily Rodda Grades 4-7 (334 p) Stravaganza series Grades 3-5 (113 p) Fairy Realm series WIZARD’S HALL by Jane Yolen While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making THE HERO AND THE CROWN by Robin McKinley When Jessie searches for her ill grandmother's missing charm bracelet, Grades 4-8 (133 p) Audiobook available journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Grades 6-8 (246 p) Audiobook available she is led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be A young apprentice wizard tries to save the wizard’s training hall. Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe, fights for birthright due there. intrigues surrounding the Duchess who rules the city.
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