Author

Call #

Title

FIR

Firebirds

A collection of sixteen short science fiction and fantasy stories by award-winning authors.

Adams, Richard

ADA

Watership Down

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

Bell, Hilari

BEL

The Goblin Wood

A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures.

Berman, Judith

BER

Bear Daughter

Twelve-year-old Cloud wakes up as a human girl instead of a bear and embarks on a thrilling journey through both mortal and immortal worlds in order to mend her past, face her fears, and save the realm in which she lives.

Black, Holly

BLA

Valiant:  A Modern Tale of Faerie

When she runs away to New York seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell finds that escape from her own reality is impossible as she encounters colorful, desperate, and strange new friends who end up giving her the surprise of her life.

Bradbury, Ray

BRA

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Two small-town teens encounter mysterious forces of evil at a carnival.

Bray, Libba

BRA

A Great and Terrible Beauty

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Clement-Davies, David

CLE

Fire Bringer

Rannoch, born with a fawn mark the shape of an oak leaf on his forehead, is destined to lead the deer out of the Lord of the Herd's tyranny, but he must first complete a journey through the Great Land.

Clement-Davies, David

CLE

The Sight

In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy from calling upon a legendary evil one that will give her the power to control all animals.

Cornish, D. M.

COR

Foundling

Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps.

Dickinson, Peter

DIC

The Ropemaker

When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.

Dunkle, Clare B.

DUN

The Hollow Kingdom

In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.

Fforde, Jasper

FFO

The Eyre Affair

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Fisher, Catherine

FIS

The Oracle Betrayed

After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon.

Gaiman, Neil

GAI

Coraline

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Gruber, Michael

GRU

The Witch’s Boy

A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart’s desire.

Jordan, Sherryl

JOR

Secret Sacrament

A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows the role Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navoran people and the Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes an Elected One and trains to be a Healer.

Kinsella, W. P.

KIN

Shoeless Joe

An Iowa farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will play in it.  The inspiration for the movie “Field of Dreams.”

L’Engle, Madeleine

LEN

A Wrinkle in Time

A teen and her precocious little brother travel time, space, and dimensions to rescue their missing father from the sinister IT.

Lanagan, Margo

LAN

Black Juice

Provides glimpses of the dark side of civilization and the beauty of the human spirit through ten short stories that explore significant moments in people's lives, events leading to them, and their consequences.

Larabelstier, Justine

LAE

Magic or Madness

From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.

Le Guin, Ursula K.

LEG

A Wizard of Earthsea

A tale of the testing of the sorcerer Ged, and how he crossed death's threshold to restore the balance of power.

Lewis, C. S.

LEW

Till We Have Faces

An at times disturbing retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche – from the perspective of her ugly sister.  A grown-up novel by the author of the Narnia books.

Lynch, Scott

LYN

The Lies of Locke Lamora

A foundling becomes a con-man and folk hero.

McKinley, Robin,

MCK

The Blue Sword

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.

Nix, Garth

NIX

Sabriel

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.

Odom, Mel

ODO

The Rover

Edgewick, Level Three Librarian at the Vault of All Known Knowledge, unexpectedly encounter adventure outside the covers of a book.

Oppel, Kenneth

OPP

Airborn

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Paolini, Christopher

PAO

Eragon

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.

Pierce, Tamora

PIE

Trickster’s Choice

Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.

Pratchett, Terry

PRA

The Wee Free Men

Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue toughs, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Pratchett, Terry

PRA

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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.

Pullman, Phillip

PUL

The Golden Compass

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.

Rowling, J. K.

ROW

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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.

Shinn, Sharon

SHI

The Safe-Keeper’s Secret

Fiona is Safe-Keeper in the small village of Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not share with anyone else.

Stroud, Jonathan

STR

The Amulet of Samarkand

Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the The Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.

Tolkein, J. R. R.

TOL

The Lord of the Rings

Frodo the hobbit must destroy the Dark Lord’s Ring of Power to save Middle-Earth.  Probably the greatest fantasy novel ever written.  Far more sophisticated than the movie.

Whitcomb, Laura

WHI

A Certain Slant of Light

After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

Wooding, Chris

WOO

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.