 | Title: Skellig Author: David Almond Summary: Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. |
 | Title: TUCK EVERLASTING Author: Natalie Babbitt Summary: The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older. |
 | Title: The Anybodies Author: N.E. Bode Summary: After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds a place that feels like home. |
 | Title: The Goblin Wood Author: Hilari Bell Summary: 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. |
 | Title: The house with a clock in its walls Author: John Bellairs Summary: A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday. |
 | Title: Treekeepers Author: Susan Britton Summary: Searching for her father, Bird joins three other children, Issie, Dren, and Stoke, on a journey to the Kingdom of Wen to overthrow the evil Lord Rendarren. |
 | Title: Gregor the Overlander Author: Suzanne Collins Summary: When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. |
 | Title: The Dragon of Doom Author: Bruce Coville Summary: Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom. |
 | Title: The tale of Despereaux Author: Kate DiCamillo Summary: The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
 | Title: The field guide Author: Tony DiTerlizzi Summary: When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences. |
 | Title: The conch bearer Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Summary: In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains. |
 | Title: Hatching magic Author: Ann Downer Summary: When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right. |
 | Title: The Sea of Trolls Author: Nancy Farmer Summary: 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. |
| Title: DRAGON RIDER Author: Cornelia Funke Summary: After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy. |
 | Title: My father's dragon Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett Summary: A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. |
 | Title: Pure dead magic Author: Debi Gliori Summary: When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a giant tarantula use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. |
 | Title: The secrets of Ms. Snickle's class Author: Laurie Miller Hornik Summary: Every school has its secrets, but in Ms. Snickle's classroom the secrets are extraordinary, and when Lacey sets out to learn and tell them all, she puts Ms. Snickle's job in jeopardy. |
 | Title: Make a wish! Author: Miranda Jones Summary: While shopping with her grandmother at a flea market, nine-year-old Ali buys an old lava lamp that turns out to have a wish-granting genie inside. |
 | Title: The dragonling Author: Jackie French Koller Summary: Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother's dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons. |
 | Title: A wrinkle in time Author: Madeleine L'Engle Summary: One stormy night a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and fantastic journeya journey that will threaten their lives and our universe. |
 | Title: The doll people Author: Ann M. Martin Summary: A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor. |
 | Title: Ghost at the window Author: Margaret McAllister Summary: Ewan and his parents love the isolated Scottish house they have moved to, but it slips in and out of different times, and Ewan finds he must help a young girl trapped by these time shifts and stuck between life and death. |
 | Title: Midnight for Charlie Bone Author: Jenny Nimmo Summary: Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking. |
 | Title: Eragon Author: Christopher Paolini Summary: 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. |
 | Title: Olivia Kidney Author: Ellen Potter Summary: Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a psychic, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual characters. |
 | Title: Rowan of Rin Author: Emily Rodda Summary: Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to drive them back. |
 | Title: The Van Gogh Cafe Author: Cynthia Rylant Summary: The Van Gogh Cafe, located in Flowers, Kansas, has magic in its walls, causing strange and mysterious events to occur there. |
 | Title: Knights of the kitchen table Author: Jon Scieszka Summary: Joe receives a magic book for his birthday present from his uncle. Joe, Fred and Sam are transported to a time when evil knights, fire- breathing dragons and vile-smelling giants roamed the land. |
 | Title: The Unseen Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder Summary: Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly. |
 | Title: Heir apparent Author: Vivian Vande Velde Summary: While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. |