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Fantasy

	Baker, E. D. The frog princess. After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again. First book in Tales of the frog princess series.
	Barker, Clive. Abarat. Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed. Sequel: Days of magic, nights of war.
	Barry, Dave. Peter and the Starcatchers. Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin. Sequels: Peter and the shadow thieves and Peter and the secret of Rundoon.
	Browne, M. N. Basilisk. Two teens who discover they are sharing the same dream of dragons fight to stop the evil dictator from bringing their dreams to life in the form of a terrible basilisk with the power to literally scare people to death.
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	Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. First book in the Artemis Fowl series
	Dalkey, Kira. Little sister. Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara no Mitsuko, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth century Japan, enlists the help of a shape-shifter and other figures from Japanese mythology in her efforts to save her older sister's life. Sequel: The heavenward path.
	The Faery Reel : tales from the Twilight Realm. A collection of stories and poems about faeries in all parts of the world by a variety of authors.
	Farmer, Nancy. The sea of trolls. After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
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	Firebirds : an anthology of original fantasy and science fiction. Contains sixteen fantasy and science fiction short stories by authors: Delia Sherman, Megan Whalen Turner, Sherwood Smith, Nancy Springer, Lloyd Alexander, Meredith Ann Pierce, Michael Cadnum, Emma Bull, Patricia A. McKillip, Kara Dalkey, Garth Nix, Elizabeth E. Wein, Diana Wynne Jones, Nancy Farmer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Laurel Winter.
	Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Inkheart. Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Sequels: Inkspell and Inkdeath.
	Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's moving castle. Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
	Jones, Diana Wynne. Dark Lord of Derkholm Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. Sequel: The year of the griffin.
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	Jones, Diana Wynne. Unexpected magic: Collected stories. Contains fifteen short stories and one novella, including "The Plague of Peacocks," "Aunt Bea's Day Out," "The Fat Wizard," "No One," and "Everard's Ride."
	Le Guin, Ursula. Gifts. When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
	Levine, Gail Carson. Ella enchanted. 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.
	McKinley, Robin. Beauty: A retelling of the story of Beauty and the beast. Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.
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	McKinley, Robin. Rose daughter. Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.
	New magics. Presents twelve short fantasy stories written between 1986 and 2001, including selections from Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ursula Le Guin, and others.
	Oppel, Kenneth. 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.
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	Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. In Alagaesia, 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. Sequels: Eldest and Brisingr.
	Pratchett, Terry. The wee free men. A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. Sequel: A hat full ofsky.
	Tolkien, J. R. R. The hobbit. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
	White, T.H. The sword in the stone A retelling of the Arthurian legend.
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Fantasy Series

The Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
	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 Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland. The golem's eye. Ptolemy's gate.
Dark is rising sequence by Susan Cooper
	Over sea, under stone Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur and that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the forces of the Dark. The dark is rising Greenwitch The grey king Silver on the tree
Earthsea cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
	A wizard of Earthsea A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. The tombs of Atuan The farthest shore Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea.
His dark materials by Philip Pullman
	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. The subtle knife The amber spyglass Once upon a time in the North
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Keys to the kingdom by Garth Nix
	Mister Monday Arthur's life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, but bizarre creatures from another realm are determined to take the key even if it means killing him. Grim Tuesday Drowned Wednesday Sir Thursday Lady Friday Superior Saturday
The lost years of Merlin by T. A. Barron
	The lost years of Merlin A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures. The seven songs of Merlin The fires of Merlin The mirror of Merlin The wings of Merlin
The lord of the rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
	The fellowship of the ring Tells of a fellowship bound together on a perilous journey bearing the great ring of power sought by Sauron. The two towers The return of the king
Redwall by Brian Jacques
	Redwall When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
	Mossflower Mattimeo Mariel of Redwall Salamandastron Martin the Warrior The bellmaker Outcast of Redwall	Pearls of Lutra The long patrol Marlfox Legend of Luke Lord Brocktree Taggerung Triss	Loamhedge Rakkety Tam High Rhulain Eulalia Doomwyte

Science Fiction

	Anderson. M. T. Feed. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
	Farmer, Nancy. The ear, the eye, and the arm. In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
	Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout. Melly and Anny Beth agree to participate in Project Turnabout, a scientific experiment in which they are given a shot that will make them grow younger,until they receive a second injection that will stop the aging process, but when other participants die after receiving the second shot, Melly and Anny Beth refuse to have the shot and set out to find someone to care for them when they are too young to do it themselves.
	Klause. Annette. Alien secrets. On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact.
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	L'Engle, Madeleine. A wrinkle in time. Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Sequels: A wind in the door andA swiftly tilting planet. Companion title: Many waters.
	McNaughton, Janet. The secret under my skin. In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a work camp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.
	Patterson, James. Maximum ride: the angel experiment. After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. Sequels: Maximum Ride: school's out forever, Maximum Ride: saving the world and other extreme sports, and Maximum Ride: the final warning.
	Skurzynski, Gloria. Virtual war. In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.
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	Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders. When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.
	Sleator, William. The night the heads came. When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space want particularly to use his friend's talent.
	Sleator, William. Others see us. When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion.
	Vizzini, Ned. Be more chill. Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.

Science Fiction Series

Ender series by Orson Scott Card
	Ender's game Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy. Speaker for the dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant A war of gifts
Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld
	The secret hour. Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. Touching Darkness Blue noon

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