Fantasy and Science Fiction for Children and Teens
Books About Folklore
32 Books Found
Ages 9-12: Everybody knows about Midas' golden touch. But how did he get it? Why? This fantastic story illustrates how King Midas got his golden touch and then goes through many adventures to try to get it off a... (more details)
Bella's mother dies when she is born, and her father sends her away to be raised by a wet nurse, a kindly peasant woman with a family of her own. Bella grows up never knowing that her father is a nobl... (more details)
Ages 12 and up: After a childhood spent taking care of his alchoholic mother, Cal finally gets a chance to leave home. He's going to live with his uncle, a successful accountant who has offered Cal a job and a place ... (more details)
Rob's sister Chloe lies in a coma after a riding accident, trapped in a forest of dreams between life and death. But when a dark druid shape-shifts his way into Rob's life, despair turns to hope. Beca... (more details)
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 1
Ages 6-10: When Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, along with their mother, move into the ramshackle old house belonging to crazy Aunt Lucinda after the Grace parents' divorce, strange things start happening. Jare... (more details)
The Watchers Quest: Book 3
Ages Young Adul: Emma is in trouble again. Against the orders of Master Histal, she goes into the border cave that she has discovered on Argadnel and is suddenly drawn into a strange new world. Surprisingly, the she i... (more details)
The Sangreal Trilogy: Book 1
Nathan has dreams. Dreams that are real. He dreams of an odd city, and saves a drowning man. The next day, that man turns up on the news. Nathan struggles to understand his strange dreams while all ar... (more details)
The Chronicles of Faerie: Book 1
Sixteen-year-old Gwen Woods arrives in Ireland from America to spend time with her Irish cousin, Findabhair. Gwen and Findabhair have always been best friends, in spite of living on opposite sides of ... (more details)
Ages 13 and up: Toshi lives a simple life as an apprentice to a mapmaker. But when a stranger walks into the shop one night, Toshi finds his life takes an unexpected and frightening turn. For Toshi is pressed into th... (more details)
Ages 10 and up: The sea calls to Sapphy, a call that seems to say that the sea is in her blood and the sea is where she belongs. It calls to her brother Conor, too, and it may have called her father. Is that why her ... (more details)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
When Jeremy Thatcher stumbles into Elives Magic Supplies, he Is simply searching for a way to escape from two mean boys. But when he sees a brighly colored ball, he somehow wants it. When he gets home... (more details)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Magic was once common in England, but the era of practical magic ended centuries ago with the disappearance of the Raven King. In the early 19th century, the only magicians in England are theoretical ... (more details)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 1
Ages 8 and up: When four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, are sent to stay at the rambling old house of a professor in the country, they discover a magical wardrobe in the Professor's house. Going into the ... (more details)
The Lost Years of Merlin Epic: Book 1
Ages 9-12: Emrys remembers nothing from the time before he washed ashore on the coast of Wales. He doesn't even know if the woman with him, who calls herself Branwen, is his mother, even though she claims that s... (more details)
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Book 1
Three children, Simon, Jane and Barney, are spending their vacation with their Great Uncle Merry in the village of Trewissick, in Cornwall. When they find an ancient-looking map in the attic, they are... (more details)
The Sangreal Trilogy: Book 3
Nathan has visited other universes in his dreams. He has a unique ability to open a portal through the multiverse in his mind while he sleeps, and he has used that ability to recover two of the three ... (more details)
Ages 9-12: Kathy Henley is scared of noises in the night that no one else can hear. Sure, she and her family just moved to Boulder, Colorado, and everything is strange and different, but Kathy is sure she isn't ... (more details)
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 2
when simon is suddenly kidnapped by goblins- invisble goblins! -it is up to jared and mallory to get him out. but with different creatures lurking around- that will not be so easy! (more details)
The Sisters Grimm : The Problem Child
The Sisters Grimm: Book 3
After their horrible battle with Rumpelstiltsken, Sabrina finds her parents... but she also finds a strange red cloaked child, and a horrible creature called a Jabberwocky too. And moments after she a... (more details)
Ages 10 and up: Adi is an apprentice to a master craftsman who makes kris, traditional swords imbued with spiritual power. He and his master are on a journey to deliver a new kris to the Sultan when his master is tak... (more details)
Ages 12 and up: 16-year-old Elaine lives at the army encampment with her father and her brothers, Tirry and Lavain. Nine years earlier, Elaine's mother was killed by Picts, and since then she has lived at the encampm... (more details)
The Talamadh: Book 1
Ages 12 and up: The land of Ahn Norvys lies in chaos. The King has died and the Queen and Prince are missing. The ancient harmony of the land is disintegrating. But young Kalaquinn Wright lives in a protected clanhol... (more details)
The Chronicles of Faerie: Book 2
Eighteen-year-old Laurel Blackburn travels to Ireland to visit her grandparents on the one year anniversary of the death of her twin sister, Honor. The previous year, while the two of them had been vi... (more details)
The Sangreal Trilogy: Book 2
Nathan goes to other worlds in his dreams. Literally. The last time he risked life, limb, and everything he holds dear to retrieve the Grimthorn Grail. And now his dreams are taking him to a strange a... (more details)
When Old Father Tim, Greenwich's Guardian of time, feels a wobble in the earth's floor, he isn't overly concerned time has slight wibbles now and then. He has allowed for this. But then two events occ... (more details)
Ages Teen: Sixteen-year-old street-wise Kaye finds herself living with her grandmother on the Jersey shore after a nomadic existence with her mother’s rock band. Kaye used to see fairies when she was younger, bu... (more details)
Ages 10 and up: When Peer Ulfsson's father dies, Peer is forced to go and live with his cruel and greedy Uncles, Baldur and Grim, in Trollsvik. Peer's life would be unbearable if it weren't for two new friends: a gi... (more details)
Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
Ages 14 and up: In Holly Black's Valiant, there are fairies living in New York: exiles from the Courts forced to live in the iron-infested city. When seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York, she discovers a worl... (more details)
The Watchers Quest: Book 1
Ages Young Adult: Emma Sweeney is not happy - her mother has convinced her to take a job caring for their new neighbor Albert Maxim's father, Poppy Maxim. Emma doesn't want to to be a caretaker for some old man she's n... (more details)
At first the story seems to be pretty standard fantasy fare: a princess with unusual magical talent, in this case water magic, is unappreciated and even reviled for her talent. An outsider in her own ... (more details)
Ages 10 and up: The water is all drying up. Everything - every pond, every place - the water is quickly going down. Tad's father, Pondleweed, tells him that it is a drying time. Pondleweed and Tad, along with Tad's s... (more details)
Tartan Magic: Book 1
Ages 8-12: When Jennifer's family decides to visit Gran and Da in Scotland, they find that in Scotland magic exists and the evil wizard Michael Scot is after his magic map. If he finds it, things could go horrib... (more details)
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